Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood’s compositions range from sound art and environmental sound installations to concert music. In synchronous homage to Christian Barnard’s pioneering heart transplants, in 1968 Lockwood began a series of Piano Transplants in which defunct pianos were burned, drowned, beached, and planted in an English garden. Piano Burning continues to be performed around the globe and Piano Garden is permanently installed in the Gwydyr Forest, Wales, Rathmullen, N. Ireland, Caramoor, New York, Baltimore UMBC, and Luxembourg. Water has been a recurring focus of her work and her installation sound maps of the Hudson, the Danube and the Housatonic Rivers have been widely presented, most recently at the Southbank, London and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is a Professor Emerita of Vassar College and a recipient of the SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. In 2022 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.