Anna Ebbesen

Biography

Anna Ebbesen has made a career commitment to fostering new voices in the industry. Her orchestrations can be heard on over twenty original movie musicals currently on the film festival circuit, including scores by Anna K. Jacobs (2020 Jonathan Larson Award), Avi Amon (2019 Jonathan Larson Award), Zoe Sarnak (2018 Jonathan Larson Award), Bobby Cronin and Daniel Lincoln. As a music director and orchestrator for the American Theatre Wing/NEA Songwriting Challenge (2018–present) and the New York Youth Symphony Musical Theatre Composition Program (2019–present), Anna continues to work on cultivating the industry's newest composers while simultaneously developing new works with established writers such as Tony Award winner Steven Sater, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Gaby Alter, and Michael Cooper. Recent premieres: The Notebook at Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Associate Music Director), Paradise Square at Nederlander Chicago (Associate Music Director and Conductor), Mary & Max at Theatre Calgary (Music Supervision and Orchestrations) and We Were Everywhere at Princeton (Music Supervision and Co-orchestrations). Next: Once Upon a One More Time at The Marquis Theatre (Associate Conductor)