Anne Minors is a musically trained architect and theatre consultant. After designing hospitals in the UK and civil engineering projects in Hong Kong, she then specialized in designing and delivering buildings for the performing arts. As Head of Design at Theatre Projects between 1984 and 1995, she consulted to the architectural practices of Moshe Safdie, Barton Myers, Charles Moore, Bing Thom, Michael Hopkins, Frank O Gehry, Cesar Pelli, Michael Wilford and Zaha Hadid on projects in North America and the Far East.

Anne founded Anne Minors Performance Consultants in 1996, a multidisciplinary practice of designers, stage engineers and lighting and sound designers, and in 20 years completed 30 arts buildings in 7 continents, working with  architectural firms Dixon Jones, Foster and Partners,Tabanlioglu, Emre Arolat Architects, David Chipperfield, Herzog and de Meuron, KPMG, ERA and Diamond Schmidt.

Anne Minors will deliver two presentations at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Both will take place in Room 104, Memorial Hall. The first presentation is at 4:30- 5:30 pm, Tuesday, November 20 and is entitled “A Musical Tapestry- Gathering forms for Sound 1989-2019”. It will focus on international design projects for performance spaces. The second is at 3:30-4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 21 and is entitled “Audience eye-movements in viewing images of concert halls - with and without music - a behavioral study”.

Presentations are under the auspices of UPEI's Department of Psychology, in conjunction with courses on music cognition and the psychology of human learning and memory. For more information, contact Annabel Cohen at acohen@upei.ca or 902-628-4325.