While at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, she received multiple scholarship awards, including the Kurzban Merit Scholarship in Piano, awarded to a freshmen “whose talent is of the highest caliber, sufficient to inspire fellow students to greater effort and to raise the general level of instruction in the Conservatory.” She was also a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble, working closely with conductor Tim Weiss and in collaboration with composer Oliver Knussen at Severance Hall in Cleveland. In 2004, Anne attended the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute and was a concerto competition winner on MacDowell’s Second Piano Concerto. That same summer, she also participated in the San Francisco Young Pianists’ Competition, where she was awarded the Chiu-Liao Prize. Anne also attended the Aspen Music Festival and School for 2 summers, studying with Herbert Stessin, Gabriel Chodos and Joseh Kalichstein.

Anne attended graduate school at the Manhattan School of Music on merit scholarships and lived in International House NYC, where she was an artist-in-residence in her first year and a Performing Artist Fellow in her second year. As a Performing Artist Fellow, she coordinated monthly classical music salons alongside her colleague, saxophonist Christian Torkewitz. This experience inspired her to found her own Salon series in 2016, which she has been curating and running ever since. While at the Manhattan School of Music, she studied under the tutelage of pianists Anthony de Mare and Christopher Oldfather, who affectionately referred to her as a “special kind of extraterrestrial.” Upon graduation, Anne received the Kraeuter Musical Foundation Award for “excellence in chamber music performance.” She was also selected to represent the Manhattan School of Music as part of the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project.

Recognized for her “boldly assertive rhetoric” (San Francisco Examiner) and “bright golden honeycomb for a brain” (Roy Doughty, poet), she appears as a soloist, chamber musician and lecture artist around the country. Diverse appearances include radio interviews on KWMR, KZYX, KALW, and KALX, chamber music performances at Mass MOCA and Bargemusic, and concerto performances at UC San Diego and Mendocino College. Anne has taken part in two Bach Prelude and Fugue Marathons in San Francisco, where she was praised for her “sympathetic musicianship.” Other notable appearances include Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, Georgia’s Tuesday’s Music Live series, Tulane University, Princeton University, CNMAT, and the Paramount Theatre. She has also held university residencies at the University of Baltimore, Louisiana State University, Wichita State University, San Francisco State, and numerous other colleges and universities.

For over the last 10 years, Anne has given presentations, lecture recitals and masterclasses at universities throughout the country, and she has also given multiple lectures at the Music Teachers’ Association of California Convention. She has given over 65 premieres of solo and ensemble works, from local Bay Area composers Danny Clay and Matthew Hough to East Coast composers Stuart Saunders Smith, Ken Thomson, Nils Vigeland and Scott Wollscheleger. She has also collaborated with and premiered works by composers Jude Traxler, Alex Temple, Stephen Lewis, Evan Ziporyn, Anne Hege, and many others. Anne works regularly with percussionist/composer Jude Traxler (view their highest watched video ever HERE), pianist Emily Tian, and trombonist William Lang, with whom she has a long-term commissioning project focusing on underrepresented communities in the low brass world.

In-demand as a soloist and collaborator, Anne has worked with Bay Area musicians and groups, including the San Francisco Contemporary Players, Del Sol Quartet, Bang on a Can All Stars, sfSound, and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. She has also collaborated with the ensembles loadbang, Oracle Hysterical, and the Swedish exotica band Ìxtahuele. Showcasing her musical range, Anne toured with the band CocoRosie and vogue dancer Leiomy Maldonado as part of their musical team at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany and the Donau Festival in Krems, Austria, where she arranged pop and opera pieces for the band. She has also worked with percussionists Ted Adkatz and Jack Van Geem on various projects.

Anne has released 3 solo albums – J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (2018) and Anywhere But Here (2020), featuring solo works by Jude Traxler, and Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giancinto Scelsi (2023), a vocal and piano work by Ian Power out on Carrier Records. Anne has also recorded for Original Abstractions, New Focus Records, Bourbon Thomas Records, Pinna Records, Subliminal Sounds, and Oberlin Conservatory’s Aural Capacity series. She has been honored with residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Blue Mountain Chamber Retreat and Hypatia-in-the-Woods, a unique residency program in Washington State that supports women from all artistic fields. She is a 2019 recipient of an InterMusic SF Grant.

Anne has an active private piano studio in both the East Bay and the South Bay. Former students she has taught and coached have gone on to Yale, Juilliard, University of Michigan, and other music schools and conservatories. She is working on a series of long-form essays which explore the intersection of cognition, movement and ecosystems with the processes responsible for understanding and performing music.

Anne is the collaborative pianist for the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, based in Palo Alto, CA, and has been known to fill in with them on other instruments, including cajon, bells, harmonium, organ and melodica. She is a member of Beyond Artists, an organization whose members pledge to donate portions of their performance fees to organizations they support and care about. When not at the piano or writing, Anne is reading, running or obsessively watching baseball.