A Conversation with Annea Lockwood

On the occasion of the Fromm Music Foundation concert highlighting the last two decades of her groundbreaking work, the visionary composer Annea Lockwood sits down with writer, photographer, and art historian Teju Cole. Through conversation, they will explore the remarkable collaborative dimensions of Lockwood’s compositional process, with special attention to the works featured on the November 6 performance––Becoming Air (2018), Jitterbug (2007), Buoyant (2013), and Into the Vanishing Point (2019)––and invite the audience into the dialogue. The talk will open with a performance of Lockwood’s bayou borne (2016) by the Harvard New Music Ensemble.

Featuring:

• Annea Lockwood, composer
• Moderated by Teju Cole, writer, photographer, art historian, and Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing
• The Harvard New Music Ensemble

Curated and Hosted by Professor Claire Chase

Join us at 4:45pm for a soundwalk led by Loeb/ArtLab Fellow Jacek Smolicki leading up to the Composers Talk. Registration is required, visit the event page for more details.

Parking: Please note that ArtLab does not have parking, and area street parking is limited. Rideshare and public transit are recommended.

A Conversation with Annea Lockwood is supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) and the Johnson-Kulukundis Family President’s Fund for the Arts at Harvard University. This event is sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, ArtLab at Harvard, and the Harvard University Department of Music.

We invite you to also join us on Thursday, November 6 at 7:00pm for The Fromm Players at Harvard present The Music of Annea Lockwood.