"Through custom-built instruments and the laptop orchestra, The Glance shows that technology can rejuvenate rather than hurt the art form, expanding the potential for expressivity and audience engagement in opera." - Hayley Dunn, of SF Classical Voice (full article here)
HAPPENINGS
FALL 2027
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 at 5:30 pm@ Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library Main Branch
Sound and Dialogue: SFEMF@25
Panelist in discussion of SF Electronic Music Festival History, Present, and Future
September 20 through October 4, 2026 @ SF Opera, War Memorial
Pre-concert Talk for Mary, Queen of Scots
Friday, November 6, 2026 at TBA @ St. Mary Magdalen Church, Berkeley
Vox Alta performs a selection of choral works for treble voices
Friday, November 13, 2026 at 5:30 pm @ Los Altos, CA
PWC performs at the Los Altos Stroll - free preview of our winter concert
Sunday, December 6, 2026 at 2:00 pm
PWC performs Vivaldi’s Gloria with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra
Friday, December 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm @ First UMC of Palo Alto
PWC performs Vivaldi’s Gloria with PACO and celebrates the season in our winter concerts
Saturday, December 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm @ Mission Santa Clara
PWC performs Vivaldi’s Gloria with PACO and celebrates the season in our winter concerts
ONLINE VIEWING:
The Furies: A Laptopera Trailer* in three minutes, see how and why The Furies happened! * on my new Youtube Channel.
**The Furies: A Laptopera**new opera for laptop orchestra and live vocalists based on the Electra story * watch Live-Stream recordings here
New Prosthetics' self-titled album is out on FREAKS! Listen here, watch videos, Experiment, Put Me Under, In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Online release of Annabel Lee (2005) for solo voice and tape track
EXCITING PRESS:
I Care If You Listen profiled my work in an article titled “Anne Hege Breathes Life into Hacked Cassette Players and Singing Laptops” by Esteban Meneses (I love the title of this article).
It sounds like all my dreams commissioned by Volti SF, for live distanced chorus, virtual chorus, and electronic interludes, received some nice reviews! SF Classical Voice published this review, and Stephen Smoliar published this one! You can watch it here.
You can find an article in SF Classical Voice about PWC’s first season with me as AD here.
I wrote a pamphlet to complete my Deep Listening Certification called Deep Listening Through Parenthood: Sonic Meditations for Birth, the NICU, and Beyond. It is free to share. I put it out there as a testament to the power of the Deep Listening practice, the work of Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold, and the values that have been central to my work as a composer, musician, and human over the last twenty years. Enjoy!
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LAPTOPERA PRODUCTIONS
Pushing forward a new medium, the laptopera, to create operas for laptop orchestra and live voices that seamlessly weaves together movement, sound, and story
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TAPE MACHINE
Hear my latest works for my live, analog looping Tape Machine instrument.
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DONATE TODAY
Ambitious art needs allies!
Consider donating to support my next laptopera, The Glance, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.
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PENINSULA WOMEN'S CHORUS
As the artistic director of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, I support the creation of adventurous new music for treble voices.
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DEEP LISTENING
Download my free pamphlet, Deep Listening through Parenthood, a collection of Sonic Meditations for Birth, the NICU, and beyond.
With support from the following:
The Glance is funded and partially made possible through the residency program of 836M.
The creation of The Glance is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.
Laptopera Productions was supported by New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2025-26.
The creation of The Glance was supported by a Dresher Ensemble and Artist Residency 2024-2025.