Anthony Vine is a composer and guitarist living in Brooklyn, New York. He creates music about spirituality, beauty, and sound itself. His work across different media, including performance, installation, and sound sculpture, is minimal in form, yet acoustically dynamic and deeply emotive. Most recently, his work has been inspired by sacred subjects, ranging from church background music to medieval acoustic pots.
His music has been presented by Blank Forms, Carnegie Hall, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Lévy Gorvy, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pioneer Works, Transit Festival, and Ultima Festival, and performed by orchestras like the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, The Minnesota Orchestra, and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and chamber ensembles like Quatuor Bozzini, Longleash, and Yarn/Wire. He has co-created work with musicians like Gareth Davis, Madison Greenstone, and Jack Langdon, as well as the architect Ajay Manthripragada and filmmakers Max Levin and Catalina Alvarez. Recordings of his music have been released on Cassauna/IMPREC, Celestial Excursions, Kuyin, Cantaloupe, and Galtta Media, and his writing has been published by Blank Forms and Contemporary Music Review.
Vine is the recipient of the 2024 Rome Prize in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome. In 2016, he received the Gaudeamus International Composers Award, where the jury noted, "Anthony Vine creates a solid, mature, beautifully crafted fragile sound world. He knows how to blur the identity of the different sources of sounds including the use of electronics in a very singular way." Other honors include fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Watermill Center, the Camargo Foundation, and Exploring The Metropolis; a 2022-24 Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program grant; the John J. Cali String Quartet Composition Award; the Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award; and funding from the Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, NYSCA, and the Johnstone Fund for New Music.
Vine is the composer-in-residence at The Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School, where he helps people with vision loss pursue their study of music. He holds a PhD in music from the University of California, San Diego.
He directs the imprint Bazetta University Press.
photo: Emily B. Frank