Annie Pasqua is a music educator, music director, composer, and performer whose credits include performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Symphony Space. A student of noted concert pianist Morton Estrin, her choral compositions are featured in the Judith Clurman concert series, published by Hal Leonard. With her sister, Jenna, Annie is the composer/lyricist/librettist of TESS: A New Rock Opera, based on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. She has been an avid Star Trek fan since childhood, and she and her husband, Deniz Cordell, were married by Walter Koenig.