sidecar

sidecar is anne hege and heather heise

art songs for the modern day

cabaret for those who love charles ives

anne hege

Born in Oakland, CA, Anne Hege began her musical studies singing with the Piedmont Children's Choir. Her studies continued in high school with her participation in the Oakland Youth Chorus's touring ensemble, Vocal Motion. While performing in Vocal Motion, she was highly influenced collaborations with composer/performers Linda Tillery, Keith Terry and their work with folk and world music. In 1998, Hege received her Bachelor degree from Wesleyan University with honors in music and was awarded the Gwen Livingston Pekora Prize for music composition. Hege continued her composition studies at Mills College studying with Fred Frith, Chris Brown, and Pauline Oliveros. In 2003, she received her MA in Composition and was awarded the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize for excellence of graduate composition in music. Hege has composed choral works for the Albany Community Chorus, Piedmont Children's Choir, Voce e Tempore, and Ninos y Jovenes Cantores de la Escuela Nacional de Musica de la UNAM. She regularly performs original works and art songs in her performance duo "Sidecar," and is currently working on her first movie soundtrack. This fall, Hege will begin her doctoral studies in music composition at Princeton University.

heather heiss

Heather Heise situates herself in diverse musical environments, from the sacred to the arcane. Trained as a classical pianist, she collaborates with choreographers and conductors, as well as visual artists, improvisors, computer programmers and numerous other professional performing musicians. She prefers the kaleidoscope to the periscope.

cameron britt and tom kraines - dithyramb

cameron plays percussion, tom plays cello