Shorter Bio (150 words)
Described as “suggestive, elegant” and “hauntingly beautiful,” Anna’s music explores tactile encounters with the world, extending through 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 extended piano work Harbour received a JUNO nomination for Classical Composition of the Year.
Her work spans chamber, orchestral, operatic, and interdisciplinary forms, often shaped through collaboration. Recent projects include Cells of Wind (2025), a graphically notated chamber opera created with poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei and experimental opera collective FAWN. Residencies have taken her from Montreal to Iceland, deepening her ongoing practice of embodiment within nature.
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.