Ep. 11: Interview with Anna Weesner

The music of Anna Weesner (winner of 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Virgil Thomson Award and 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship) has been performed by widely (including: Abramovic; ACO; Arnold; Bandwidth; Beck; Bowers; Cassatt; Chamber Music at Lincoln Center; Counter)induction; Cuckson; Curtis 20/21; Cygnus ; Cypress; Daedalus ; de Guise-Langlois ; Eighth Blackbird; Fader; Goode; Kang; Kraines; Lark; Look and Listen; Morales; Network; NY Virtuoso Singers; Open End; Pearson; Prism; Riverside Symphony; Sequitur; Shao; Stillman; Stinson; Tanglewood; Upshaw; Waggoner; Watras; WCM). Violin at age five and flute as a teenager in youth orchestra were formative experiences. Radio presets in her car are heavy on pop. Her recent output includes My Mother in Love, ten songs for which she wrote text, and The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground for clarinet quintet. She studied at Yale (B.A.) and Cornell (D.M.A.) and is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.