Biography
Alexa Rinn is a composer whose music aims to access a visceral immediacy of perceptual experience and feeling. Her love of indie rock, shoegaze, and other heavy genres of popular music deeply informs her timbral and structural explorations, and she loves to think about and live inside the moments of change between sonorities. Rinn’s works have been performed and/or recorded by ensembles such as Chicago Composers Orchestra, Unassisted Fold, Omnibus Ensemble, SONAR Ensemble, Quartetto Maurice, Occasional Symphony, Symphony Number One, Duo Riso, and the Peabody Preparatory Wind Orchestra. She has received fellowships from Copland House Cultivate and the Norfolk New Music Workshop and has had her works performed at festivals such as New Music On the Point, Highscore Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference. Rinn received her BM in Composition and Music Theory from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and her MM and DMA degrees in Composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She has previously served as a Lecturer in Music at Northwestern University and adjunct faculty at Roosevelt University.