Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980) is an English composer resident in the United States. [1] She has worked in both acoustic music and electroacoustic music. [2] [3]
Born on 9 March 1980 in London, [4] Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition at age 7. Her first composition to receive a public performance was at the Oxford Youth Prom when she was 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 an MA degree in music. Her teachers have included Marina Adamia, Marjan Mozetich and Julia Wolfe. [2] [5]
Clyne was director of the New York Youth Symphony's "Making Score" program for young composers from 2008 to 2010. In October 2009, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) named Clyne and Mason Bates its co-composers in residence, as of the 2010–2011 season, [6] with an initial contract of 3 years. In January 2012, the CSO extended theirs contract as co-composers-in-residence through the 2013–2015 season. [7] Additional residencies for Clyne as composer-in-residence with various orchestras have included:
Clyne was appointed Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra from 2019–2022. [9]
Various arts institutions have commissioned and presented Clyne’s work, including the Barbican, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, MoMA, Philharmonie de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet, and the Sydney Opera House. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] In 2013, BBC Radio 3 commissioned Clyne to write the concert overture Masquerade for the Last Night of the Proms. [19] [20] Clyne was nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her double violin concerto, Prince of Clouds . Works for soloist and orchestra form an important part of her output, as is also evident from The Seamstress (2015), a single-movement violin concerto that incorporates a whispered recitation of the poem A Coat by Yeats, [20] and the five movement cello concerto Dance (2019), commissioned by Inbal Segev and recorded by her in 2020.
Clyne has done several cross-genre collaborations, and has also worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Pekka Kuusisto, Martin Fröst, and Jess Gillam. [21] [22] [23] Clyne has explored her interests in visual arts in several projects: five contemporary artworks inspired Abstractions (2016); Color Field (2020), takes inspiration from the artwork of Mark Rothko; and a film collaboration with Jyll Bradley, entitled Woman Holding a Balance (2021). [24] [25] [26] Several commercial albums of her music have been released. [27] [28] [29]
Clyne is married to the American sound engineer Jody Elff. The couple have collaborated on an electronic compositional tool, the Augmented Orchestra. [30] The couple reside in rural New York state. [31]
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