Dr. Anne K. Hege, Artistic Director
Dr. Anne K. Hege creates musical worlds that invite awareness of and attention to the body and our present moment. In her work as a conductor, composer, vocalist, instrument builder, and scholar, she explores the roots of musicality in the intersection of ensemble interaction, technology, embodiment, and expression. Working as a choral conductor since 1999, Hege founded and directed new music and technology-focused ensembles Folk3000 (1999-2001), Cuatro Vientos (2004-2006), and Celestial Mechanics (2007-2010). She developed her style as a conductor supporting community empowerment through choral practices as founder and director of the Albany Community Chorus (2000-2004), Holy Names University Chorus (2013-2016), Voci Women’s Vocal Ensemble (2013-2017), and Level IV of the SF Girls Chorus (2015-2022). As the artistic director of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, Anne works to expand the role of the community chorus in commissioning and performing adventurous and transcendent works for treble chorus.
Hege’s compositions have been performed and commissioned by ensembles worldwide, including So Percussion, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Stanford Laptop Orchestra, Google Mobile Devices Ensemble, loadbang, Ensemble Klang, Clerestory, NOW Ensemble, and Volti SF. Since 2008, Hege has composed musical scores for Carrie Ahern Dance with over 50 performances of these works in New York, Baltimore, LA, SF, and Seattle. Hege has received awards and grants, including a New Music USA Project and Organizational Grant, Mark Nelson Fellowship (Princeton University), Composer-in-Residence (Resound Ensemble), Visiting Artist (CCRMA, Stanford University and Cal Poly), Research Affiliate (CACPS, Princeton University), Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize (Mills College), Gwen Livingston Pokora Prize in Music Composition (Wesleyan University) and Associate Artist Residency (Atlantic Center for the Arts). In 2022, Hege created and premiered her first laptopera, The Furies, an opera for live voices and laptop orchestra, at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. The Furies is a retelling of the Greek tragedy Electra, which showcases a new kind of operatic medium (the “laptopera”) to reimagine the potential of instrument building to support dramatic elements and character relationships, while simultaneously posing questions about technology in our lives today. In 2025, Hege founded Laptopera Productions to produce operas for laptop orchestra and live voices, including the premiere of her second laptopera, The Glance, May 29-31, 2026, at ODC. Anne released her first self-titled album with her duo New Prosthetics. Hege regularly tours and performs on her analog-live looping instrument, the tape machine, along with the laptop orchestra ensemble, Sideband. You can learn more about her work at www.annehege.com
Anne Rainwater, Collaborative Pianist
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 locally and 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, and is a 2019 recipient of an InterMusic SF Grant. 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 Alex Huddleston, who wrote that it was “without a doubt the best music I’ve yet reviewed for TEMPO.” Inspired by an early interest in the writings of Noam Chomsky and Fritjof Capra, she is working on a series of long-form essays which explore the intersection of cognition, movement and ecosystems with the processes responsible for understanding and performing music. In June 2025, Anne participated in a Brain Waves online residency as part of Ayatana’s Biophilium Science School for Artists, based in Canada, which brought together artists and scientists. This October, she will be part of a month-long artist residency at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland.
Kathryn Sanwick, Director of Operations
Kathryn discovered a love of choral music in college when she joined the choir as a timid freshman. It was such a positive experience that she quickly made the decision to change her major to music, building on her formative years as a student of the piano. By the time she graduated, she had interned with the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles and knew her preferred career path was in arts administration. She had a few detours along the way, including earning her Master’s degree in Music Systems from San Jose State University, before serving as a private lesson coordinator and later registrar at the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View. She joined the Peninsula Women’s Chorus in 2007, and in 2021, she became PWC’s first General Manager.
Jungmee Kim, Director of Marketing & Graphic Designer
After serving as PWC’s collaborative pianist from 2010 to 2015, Jungmee returned to the PWC in 2018 as Marketing Director. Leveraging her creativity, drive, and extensive background as a performer and arts administrator, Jungmee has been fostering PWC’s evolution, adaptability, and growth. She holds degrees from New England Conservatory, Harvard University, and Northeastern University. Jungmee is an opera coach, and currently serves as a staff pianist at the Conservatorio di Milano “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milano, Italy.
Keyvon Abbaszadeh, Concert Manager
Kayvon Abbaszadeh is an audio tech and music composer born and raised on the Peninsula. Right now he handles the live audio and video for various groups in the peninsula.
Starting his music journey in his teens, Kayvon picked up the bass guitar then eventually migrated over to digital music and composition. During his Journey through digital music, he got his AA in electronic music at College of San Mateo, where he learned all aspects of digital audio recording and equipment. After that he decided to further his music knowledge and obtained his Bachelor of Music in composition at San Francisco State University.
Away from work, Kayvon works as a concert operations manager and audio tech for various other organizations, and he also creates his own digital pop, video game and classical music.