Anthony Vine

Anthony Vine is a composer based in Brooklyn. He creates music about spirituality, beauty, and sound itself. His work across different media, including performance, installation, and sound sculpture, is minimal in form, yet acoustically dynamic and deeply emotive. His music has been performed internationally and awarded distinctions like the 2024 Rome Prize in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome and 2016 Gaudeamus International Composers Award. He also runs Bazetta University Press.

In Roman churches, background music (BGM) can sometimes be heard playing softly. Recordings of chant and hymnody blanket these capacious spaces, inducing calm and masking extraneous noise. The music—wistful, tender, and solemn—points to an idealized past of reverent candlelit worship. These expressions and histories have inspired Vine to compose his own church BGM. The music will cast remnants of sacred music in slow recursive patterns, inviting meditative and contemplative ways of listening.