Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980, in London) is an English composer, now resident in the US. She has worked in both acoustic music and electro-acoustic music.
Biography
Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition at age 11. She formally studied music at the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Music degree with honours. She later studied at the Manhattan School of Music and earned a MA degree in music. Her teachers have included Marina Adamia, Marjan Mozetich and Julia Wolfe.
Clyne was director of the New York Youth Symphony‘s “Making Score” programme for young composers from 2008 to 2010. In October 2009, Clyne and Mason Bates were named co-composers in residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), as of the 2010–2011 season. She took up the residency in 2010, for a scheduled term of 2 years. In January 2012, her CSO contract as co-composer in residence was extended through the 2013–2014 season.[After completing her tenure with the CSO, Clyne was announced as the composer-in-residence for Orchestre national d’Île-de-France from 2014 to 2016, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra‘s 2015–2016 season, and The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 2017–2019. Clyne was appointed Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2019–2022.
Clyne was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her double violin concerto, Prince of Clouds.
In 2018, the music critic Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim selected Clyne’s composition, “Lavender Rain”, for a New York Times feature on “5 Minutes that Will Make You Love Classical Music.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Clyne
Join the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as they welcome back three outstanding musicians – Pekka Kuusisto, with tenor Allan Clayton and horn player Alec Frank-Gemmill – for this all-British programme. CLYNE – Within Her Arms BRITTEN – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Written in memory of her mother, Within Her Arms by the SCO’s Associate Composer Anna Clyne, is a powerful meditation on love and loss.
Composed during World War II, Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings sets to music six poems about the world of night, by some of the most famous names in literature including Tennyson, Keats and Blake. Its opening and closing sequence of softly intoned horn calls, hauntingly evoke a twilight atmosphere of stillness and sadness. You can view the digital programme note for the concert at https://www.sco.org.uk/events/clyne-a…
London-born Anna Clyne is a GRAMMY-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Described as a “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods” in a New York Times profile and as “fearless” by NPR, Clyne’s work often includes collaborations with cutting-edge choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, and musicians. In October 2020, AVIE Records released Mythologies, a portrait album featuring Clyne’s works recorded live by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Several upcoming projects explore Clyne’s fascination with visual arts, including Color Field for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, inspired by the artwork of Mark Rothko; Between the Rooms, a film with choreographer Kim Brandstrup and LA Opera, as well as Woman Holding a Balance, a film collaboration with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and artist Jyll Bradley (whom Clyne also teamed up with for the film, Pardes, commissioned by the Scottish Ensemble).
Other upcoming premieres include A Thousand Mornings for the Fidelio Trio; Fractured Time for the Kaleidoscope Ensemble; and Overflow for wind ensemble, inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson, composed for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Clyne composed a trilogy of Beethoven-inspired works, which premiered in 2020 for Beethoven’s 250th anniversary: Stride for string orchestra, inspired by Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique, premiered by the Australian Composers Orchestra; Breathing Statues, premiered by the Calidore String Quartet; and Shorthand for solo cello and string quintet premiered by The Knights at Caramoor.
Other recent premieres include Sound and Fury, first performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Pekka Kuusisto in Edinburgh; and her Rumi-inspired cello concerto, DANCE, premiered with Inbal Segev at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, led by Cristian Măcelaru. DANCE was also recently recorded by Segev and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Marin Alsop.
Clyne served as composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, L’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, and Berkeley Symphony. She is currently the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Associate Composer through the 2021-2022 season and a mentor composer for Orchestra of St Luke’s DeGaetano Composer Institute. http://www.annaclyne.com/
Join Q2 Music for a star-studded celebration of some of the year’s most riveting, charismatic and jaw-droppingly gorgeous new-music recordings, hosted by Meet the Composer’s Nadia Sirota. The evening spotlights Tre Voci – the chamber ensemble featuring Grammy Award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian alongside flutist Marina Piccinini and harpist Sivan Magen – performing Tōru Takemitsu’s And then I knew ´twas Wind, a work inspired by the music of Debussy and a line from the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Soprano Mellissa Hughes performs excerpts from Jacob Cooper’s Silver Threads – an evocative six-song cycle for soprano and electronics, based in large part by a haiku of Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Violinists Cornelius Dufallo and Amy Kauffman are joined by stop-motion animations of New York-based artist Josh Dorman in three movements from composer Anna Clyne’s nostalgic, Baroque improvisation-inspired The Violin. Performers along with composers Jacob Cooper and Anna Clyne will join Sirota on-stage for mid-concert interviews. Featured albums represent the latest releases of ECM New Series (“Tre Voci”), Nonesuch (“Silver Threads”) and VIA Records (“The Violin”).