Annea Lockwood (born July 29, 1939 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand born American composer and teaches electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sound, though she may be more famous for her Fluxus inspired pieces involved burning or drowning pianos. Annea studied composition as a girl in New Zealand and went on to pursue a B.Mus (hons) from Canterbury University, New Zealand. There after she went on to study composition at several institutions around Europe with notable teachers: The Royal College of Music (London) with Peter Racine Fricker, the Darmstadt Ferienkurs fur Neue Musik with Gottfried Michael Koenig, the Musikhochschule, (Cologne, Germany) and in also Holland. During the late 60?s and early seventies, Annea performed-composed around Europe but made London her home. Her compositions featured non-conventional instruments, such as glass tubing and burning, moss covered pianos, which she des

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