Heather Lockie is a performer/composer, teaching artist and visual artist based in Los Angeles. She plays viola and piano, writes songs, plays in several contemporary musical groups, writes and arranges music, teaches music, gardens, and uses paints for both fun times and for compositional work. She has a BA in Comparative Literature (French, English) from Occidental College and an MFA in music composition and viola performance from the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with Sara Roberts, Wolfgang Von Schweinitz, Mark Lowenstein and Ulrich Kreiger.