Shorter Bio
Described as “suggestive, elegant” and “hauntingly beautiful,” Anna’s music explores tactile encounters with the world while extending into memory, history, and landscape. Her works have been performed across Canada and internationally, including in the U.K., China, Mexico, Italy, and Russia. In 2021, her piano solo, Harbour, recorded by Cheryl Duvall, received a JUNO nomination for Classical Composition of the Year.
Anna’s compositions span chamber, orchestral, operatic and interdisciplinary forms. Recent commissions include string orchestra piece Saltwater (Victoria Symphony), and Snow on Snow for soprano (Dory Hayley), flute (Mark McGregor) and guitar (Adrian Verdejo), based on a poem by Don McKay.
Residencies have taken her from Montreal to Iceland. In February 2026, she attended the Artshed residency in Sointula with Ella Morton and Cheryl Duvall, where she began sketches for Sointula, a new composition for piano and video which was given a soft premiere at the University of Victoria in October by Cheryl Duvall. The piece unfolds in a series of shifting and echoing portals shaped by salt air, sunlight on the strait, the damp greys and greens of west coast moss, leaves, lakes, trees, and the unceasing movement of the tides.
Anna is co-founder and pianist-composer of the improvising collective Soft Time, and teaches from her studio in downtown Victoria. Her scores are available through the Canadian Music Centre, where she is an associate composer and serves on the advisory board.