Piano Highlights
Annika made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 2017 as a 2nd Prize Winner in the American Protégé International Romantic Music Competition. She later returned to Carnegie Hall in 2019 as a 2nd Prize Winner in the Elite International Music Competition. Annika was one of four nationally selected finalists for The American Prize competition in Piano Concerto Performance. She has won 1st Prize at the Illinois Music Association's state competition and won the Granquist Competition. Annika premiered a solo Young Steinway Artists concert in December 2018.

At age 14, Annika made her concerto debut with the FullScore Chamber Orchestra at the Merit School of Music. She was invited by the Tutti Chamber Orchestra to perform a concerto in their 19th Fine Arts Fall Festival. She was also a chamber pianist at the Midwest Young Artists Conservatory (MYAC) and made her Ravinia Festival debut with her quintet.

BIOGRAPHY

Annika Huprikar is a media composer currently studying at USC in the MM Screen Scoring program. She is a graduate of the Harvard/Berklee College of Music four-year dual program, where she received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Harvard while pursuing a focus in Screen Scoring for Film/TV at Berklee. She is also a classically-trained pianist, mainly studying classical piano with Susan Merdinger and jazz piano with Joanne Brackeen.

Composition / Scoring Highlights 

Annika has composed for piano, chamber groups, choir, and orchestra, and has also scored several short films. She has combined her musical artistry and love of cinema through her film music and compositions. Outside of her scoring coursework and recording projects, she has pursued professional opportunities in the scoring world. Recently, she scored a short film for The Coca-Cola Company and Scholars Foundation produced by Run, Jump, Fly, Inc. and live-conducted the score to picture in Atlanta. She was a selected composer for the Joy Music House Score Production Workshop (JMH), through which she wrote a chamber orchestra work and co-produced it under the mentorship of JMH at Reservoir Studios in NYC. She has worked freelance with Racket Club, an NYC music-to-picture studio, as a session musician and has shadowed founding composer Nick Crane on projects. Annika has also orchestrated several works for other composers, including this past year's projects detailing three orchestral works, a jazz combo, a marching band anthem, and a new music percussion piece. 

Annika has been a composer in different residencies with various ensembles. She has written for the Grammy-Award-Winning string quartet The Parker Quartet, and was the sole undergraduate composer in Harvard's Goldberg Residency for graduate students to write for the Broken Frames Syndicate ensemble. She has studied choral writing under Dr. Robert Kyr in the Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative (HCNMI) and has recorded with choir ensembles such as the Grammy-Award-Winning group The Crossing. In musical theater, she has also co-composed music for an original musical.