Anthony Vine is a composer and artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His work consists of orchestral and chamber music, sound sculptures, installations, film scores, photography, artist books, and writing. His music has been presented in concert halls and art contexts alike, from Carnegie Hall to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Across these different mediums, he explores the material and spiritual nature of sound, as well as the themes of archive, place, and time.
His music has been performed by orchestras like the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, 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 archaeologists, architects, designers, and filmmakers. 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. He directs the imprint Bazetta University Press, which publishes art books and other printed matter.
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, Bogliasco Foundation, Watermill Center, and Camargo Foundation; a 2022-24 Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program grant; the 2018 John J. Cali String Quartet Composition Award; a Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award; and grants from the Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, NYSCA, and the Johnstone Fund for New Music.
Vine is a faculty member at the Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School, where he helps people with vision loss pursue their study of music. He holds a Ph.D. in Music from the University of California, San Diego.
photo: Emily B. Frank