Anna Heflin
 
 
Anna Heflin

Anna Heflin; Ostrava Days 2023 ZBYHOŇ//Mythopoeia

Anna Heflin is a composer and writer who constructs high-octane, humorous, and sensual worlds with non-linear narratives that thrive on musical and psychological fragmentation. Whether writing a symphony or a staged literature-inspired solo opera for an instrumentalist, she is drawn to the unexpected and channels her highly imaginative virtuosic visions into complex characters and unorthodox narrative arcs that often integrate text and staging. Her long-term collaborations with individual artists and organizations developed over years of working as a freelance violist are central to her process and her core values include trust, risk taking, experimentation, play, open communication, and creative problem solving.

Her compositions do not fit neatly into a box and neither does she – she is invigorated by approaching music from every angle and can be found writing program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, giving academic lectures, hosting radio shows, leading roundtable discussions, and running her journal Which Sinfonia. Heflin is a 2025 LMCC Manhattan Grants Recipient for her collaboration with cellist/actor Aaron Wolff — The INcomplete Cosmicomics.

Anna Heflin; Photo Credit: Dillon Howl

 

Upcoming:

The Why Collective April 24-25 2025 NYC:

The Why Collective reads “Come Back as Next” poem from Heflin’s The INcomplete Cosmicomics

NUNC! 6 at Northwestern University April 25 2025:

Heflin presents on "Musical Relations Between The AACM and Ostrava Days"

The Wonderland Series in NYC May 20, 2025:

MATA Presents x Carnegie Hill Concerts present Heflin’s “The Wonderland Series” for Shannon Reilly

NO MAN’S LAND in NYC June 17, 18 2025:

Heflin is Assistant Conductor to Whitney George in this new opera, produced by Curiosity Cabinet and performed at Irondale in Brooklyn

The Wonderland Series in LA June 2025:

Oracele Egg present Heflin’s “The Wonderland Series” for Shannon Reilly

Shadow Song in LA June 29, 2025:

Dog Star Orchestra presents Heflin’s Shadow Song for Heflin + soprano Andrea Church at Automata

RECENT:

USC Thornton Symphony Orchestra February 28 2025:

Heflin’s “Einmal ist keinmal” (2025) for orchestra WP

SOLOperas March 20-22 2025 at The Tank in NYC:

Experiments in Opera produces Heflin’s “The INcomplete Cosmicomics” for Aaron Wolff WP

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