Anne works with pianist Emily Tian as ARc duET, primarily playing 2-piano and 4-hand works in jazz and contemporary idioms. ARc duET is committed to programming composers with diverse voices and backgrounds.
Friend and colleague Leslie La Barre wrote them a piece in 2018, and they have also worked with Bay Area composer Ryan Brown. Anne and Emily recorded Steve Reich’s Eight Lines at Tiny Telephone Oakland in March of 2019 as part of a new, sanctioned-by-the-composer version of the piece which also involves handmade synthesizers on the other instrument parts. Recent concerts include a lecture recital at Cal State East Bay University in the spring of 2024 and performances at the Berkeley Piano Club and on the Vernon Salon Series.
Additionally, Anne is one half of the Lang/Rainwater Project, a duo partnership established over 15 years ago while both members were studying at Manhattan School of Music’s groundbreaking Contemporary Performance Program. The Lang/Rainwater Project’s mission is to expand the trombone-piano repertoire by working with diverse and distinct voices of contemporary music.
While both trombonist William Lang and pianist Anne Rainwater specialize in contemporary music, they also perform a wide range of classical literature, from Bach and Schumann to young composers such as Alex Temple and Quinn Mason. They maintain an active commissioning portfolio dedicated to championing traditionally underrepresented composers, in addition to performing canonical trombone and piano works and transcriptions of classics. The Lang/Rainwater Project has performed across the United States, from tours of the South to performances on both coasts to residencies in the Northeast, including a 4-university residency and commissioning project in the Philadelphia area in the spring of 2023. In June of 2024, they performed together at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York, as part of composer Scott Wollschleger’s album release concert, playing Between Breath, a piece commissioned and premiered by them.
