Public Work
I share my research in public forums and collaborative projects across performance, media, and community venues. Recent venues include UCLA and UNC Greensboro; public-facing events range from opera talkbacks to K–12 educator programs. Below are selected appearances and creative Projects, with links to recordings or documentation when available.
Talks and Lectures
Invited Lectures
Irna Priore Music and Culture Lecture Series, “Unveiling Silence, or Listening for the Voiceless,” University of North Carolina at Greensboro, February 21, 2025.
Distinguished Lecture, “Listening for the Voiceless: Musical Representation and Historical Subjectivity in Hosokawa’s Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima,” University of California Los Angeles, October 29, 2024.
Guest Lecturer in “Absence: An Ethnographic Concern” Seminar, Prof. Yun Emily Wang, Department of Music, Duke University, October 17, 2024.
Guest Lecturer in “Music and the Transpacific” Seminar, Prof. Toru Momii, Department of Music, Harvard University, October 19, 2023.
Selected Conference Papers
“Unveiling Silence: A Paradigmatic Critique of Musicological Criticism through Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima by Toshio Hosokawa,” National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, November 15, 2024.
“Desert Specters,” Music Research Forum (Colloquium), UNC-CH, September 29, 2023.
“Nuclear Spectacle,” Nuclear Commons Panel, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and The Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), August 1, 2023.
“Silence: The Biopolitical and Aesthetic Mode of Our Nuclear Age,” National Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 6, 2022.
Conference Organization
Co-Organizer and Moderator, “In Discomfort,” symposium organized by Project Spectrum (co-founder and co-chair), pre-conference symposium to the AMS/SMT/SEM Joint National Meeting, November 9–10, 2022. Fundraised $18,000.
Curated Concerts and Other Public Engagement
Faculty Lecturer, Global Education Leaders Program, UNC World View, June 19, 2025.
Faculty Consultant, “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” Opera Bryce Dessner & Kaneza Schaal, Libretto by Ocean Vuong, Carolina Performing Arts, January 28–31, 2025. https://carolinaperformingarts.org/events/night-sky-with-exit-wounds/
Faculty Panelist, “Opera in North Carolina,” Carolina Public Humanities and North Carolina Opera, January 25, 2025.
Faculty Panelist, “Ex Machina,” Festival on the Hill, UNC-CH, March 20, 2024.
Creative Work
My creative outputs span vocal and instrumental performance, libretto writing, poetry, watercolor painting, knitting and crochet, and photography. Maintaining a deep creative connection allows me to bridge the gap between the music industry, critical theory, and other multimedia disciplines.
Featured
“Sigaw, _______, (echo)” feat. Venazir Martinez. 2024
librettist
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Librettist. Composed by Matthew Recio. Commissioned by Chicago Fringe Opera (Chicago, IL 2021). Bass-Baritone: Keanon Kyles Cellist: David Sands
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Contributor and performer of Udita Upadhyaya’s piece, presented and supported by the Smart Museum (Chicago, IL 2019).
Link to video (click here).
poet
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Published in Sagebrush Review XVII: Missed Connections (Fall 2021).
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Anna has featured her poetry with Luya poetry at their regular events. She would like to thank Chris Aldana for the support and encouragement.
singer
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Pictured: Sign, _____, (echo)
Performance Art: “Sign, ____, (echo)” supported by the Carolina Asia Center, UNC Department of Music;“Deep Blue Lullaby,” commissioned by the Smart Museum of Art for the Take Care, Be Well virtual exhibit (Chicago, IL 2021)
Experimental voice: Solo for Voice (John Cage), Cabaret Voltaire (Bloomington, IN 2017)
Opera: Amore, L’incoronazione di Poppea (DePauw University, 2015); Barbarina, Le nozze di Figaro (La Musica Lirica, Novafeltria, Italy, 2013)
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Selected performances with NOTUS 2016-2017.
Selected Visual Works
