Alexa Rinn is a Chicago-based 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.
 
Alexa’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, as well as at festivals such as New Music On the Point, the Eugene O’Neill National Puppetry Conference, Highscore Festival, and the Norfolk New Music Workshop.
 
Rinn received her BM in composition and music theory from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, where she studied with Rodney Lister, Samuel Headrick, and Ketty Nez. She received her MM and DMA degrees in composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Michael Hersch.