Anna Heflin is a composer and writer who constructs high-octane, humorous, and sensual worlds with non-linear narratives that thrive on musical and psychological fragmentation. Whether writing a symphony or a staged literature-inspired solo opera for an instrumentalist, she is drawn to the unexpected and channels her highly imaginative virtuosic visions into complex characters and unorthodox narrative arcs that often integrate text and staging. Her long-term collaborations with individual artists and organizations developed over years of working as a freelance violist are central to her process and her core values include trust, risk taking, experimentation, play, open communication, and creative problem solving.

Her compositions do not fit neatly into a box and neither does she – she is invigorated by approaching music from every angle and can be found writing program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, giving academic lectures, hosting radio shows, leading roundtable discussions, and running her journal Which Sinfonia. As a scholar, she has presented at Northwestern University New Music Conference 2025 on “Musical Relations Between The AACM and Ostrava Days” and at Brooklyn College as part of Mise-En Festival 2024 on “Frederic Rzewski and the Contradictoriness of the Symphony Orchestra”. Internationally, numerous writings by Heflin have been translated to Czech for the Czech outlet HIS Voice. 

Heflin is a 2025 LMCC Manhattan Grants Recipient for her collaboration with cellist/actor Aaron Wolff — The INcomplete Cosmicomics. She is a D.M.A. candidate in composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.