Anne Hege

Anne Hege
Elektra (June 7-June 27, 2026) 

Dr. Anne K. Hege creates musical worlds that invite an awareness of and attention to the body and our present moment. In her work as a composer, vocalist, conductor, instrument builder, and scholar, she explores the roots of musicality in the intersection of ensemble interaction, technology, embodiment, and expression. Her works have been performed by So Percussion, Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Stanford Laptop Orchestra, loadbang, Ensemble Klang, NOW Ensemble, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Volti SF. Since 2008, Hege has composed musical scores for Carrie Ahern Dance with over 50 performances of these works in locations including the vaults of a Wall Street Bank, a retired Lyceum, and Dickson's Farmstand in Chelsea Market. Hege has received awards and grants, including a New Music USA Project Grant and Organizational Grant, Visiting Artist at Stanford University, Dresher Ensemble and Artist Residency, Intermusic SF Project Grant, and associate artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Hege is currently the artistic director of the Peninsula Women's Chorus, working to expand the role of the community chorus in commissioning and performing adventurous and transcendent works for treble chorus. In 2022, Hege created and premiered her first laptopera, The Furies, an opera for live voices and laptop orchestra, at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. The Furies is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Electra, which showcases a new kind of operatic medium (the "laptopera") to reimagine the potential of instrument building to support dramatic elements and character relationships, while simultaneously posing questions about technology in our lives today. In 2025, Hege founded Laptopera Productions to produce operas for laptop orchestra and live voices, including the premiere of her second laptopera, The Glance, May 29-31, 2026, at ODC. 

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