About
Annika lives at the crossroads - at intersections between genres, between performance media, and between the divergent perspectives of different artistic worlds. As comfortable upside down as rightside up, and as at home in a rock band as in a concert hall, she does her best work when the context defies easy description.
Her live-performed score for Greg Kennedy’s Theorem, an ensemble theatrical circus show, has found audiences across the northeastern United States and from Montreal, Canada to Monterrey, Mexico, where it was a featured production at the 2018 Festival Internacional de Santa Lucia. She also scored the Green Fairy Cabaret, which debuted at the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. She has repeatedly performed with and composed for Philadelphia-based 7textures, and has also written for MoDa Movement Company.
Her collaboration with fellow Oberlin alum Matthew Scarborough, the progressive rock band The Apple Zed, has released a full length album and an EP, with a second EP titled “Time’s the Charm” on the way.
The daughter of a renowned violinist, she grew up steeped in the classical tradition and spent her youth studying cello and piano, and obtained her B.M. in Composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.