Tania León: Prelude No. 1, Sorpresa (Surprise)

Igor Stravinsky: Serenade en La

Julia Perry: Prelude

Scott Wollschleger: Music Without Metaphor

Nicholas Pavkovic: Träumerei

Maurice Ravel: Sonatine

Concert pianist Anne Rainwater is a dexterous musician known for her vibrant interpretations of works from J.S. Bach to John Zorn. Recognized for her “boldly assertive rhetoric” (San Francisco Examiner) and “sensitivity to performance and interpretation” (TEMPO Magazine), she engages audiences as a soloist, chamber musician, and lecture artist around the country. Anne has performed in venues and festivals throughout the US and Europe, including the Kennedy Center, the Donau Festival in Austria, Kampnagel in Germany, Severance Hall, Cal Performances, Stanford University, Roulette, and Le Poisson Rouge. Diverse appearances include chamber music performances at Mass MOCA and Bargemusic, concerto performances at UC San Diego and Mendocino College, and radio interviews on KWMR, KZYX, KALW, and KALX. She curates a monthly musical gathering called the Vernon Salon Series, which she founded in 2016. Anne has released 3 solo albums – J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations (2018), Anywhere But Here (2020), featuring electronic keyboard 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. That album was reviewed by composer Alex Huddleston, who wrote that it was “without a doubt the best music I’ve yet reviewed for TEMPO Magazine.” Anne is a 2019 recipient of an InterMusic SF Grant. Inspired by an early interest in the writings of Noam Chomsky and Fritjof Capra, she is working on a series of long-form essays that explore the intersection of cognition, movement, and ecosystems with the processes responsible for understanding and performing music. When not at the piano or writing, Anne is reading, running or obsessively watching baseball. 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. In June, Anne was selected to participate in a Brain Waves online residency as part of Ayatana’s Biophilium Science School for Artists, which brought artists and scientific researchers together for 2 weeks. This coming October, she will be an artist in residence for 4 weeks as part of the Fall Into Focus program at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland.