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, and creative writing, and has been presented in both concert halls and art contexts, from Carnegie Hall to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Across these different mediums, he explores the material and spiritual dimensions of sound, engaging with historical repertoires of music and the acoustics of instruments and spaces.
His music has been 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, and undertaken projects with 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.
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 2018 John J. Cali String Quartet Composition Award; a 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