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Anne Hege - Choir Director

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Anne Hege joined the PUMC Staff in 2008 as Choir Director.  She directs the Chancel Choir and the Alleluia Choir.  Born in Oakland, CA, Anne received her Bachelor degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut with honors in music where she studied conducting with Melvin Strauss and served as the assistant conductor of the Wesleyan Singers and Concert Choir. In 2000, Hege founded the Albany Community Chorus who performed a range of works including Faure’s Requiem. She has studied conducting in the Advanced Choral Conducting workshop with Marika Kuzma at UC Berkeley and has taught sight singing and vocal technique for choral directors in the Diplomado program in Mexico City. As a composer, she received her MA in music composition and the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize from Mills College in 2003. She has composed works for film, instillation art, chorus, and instruments. As a vocalist, she performs regularly in her performance duos "New Prosthetics" which combines video, electronics and vocals, and "Sidecar" which presents art songs in a theatrical and modern setting. Anne Hege is currently a doctoral fellow working towards a PhD in music composition at Princeton University.