Washington Post Classical Music Critic, Michael Andor Brodeur included Fourth Year Graduate Student in Composition, Flannery Cunningham in his list of composers and performers who "represent an array of approaches, identities, experiences and, most of all, exciting ways of imagining what our future together sounds like."
Flannery Cunningham
The Philadelphia-based composer, 29, has employed facial mapping and tracking to turn an ensemble of laptops into a voiceless choir. She’s also turned pianos into ersatz printers that plot out new scores across long scrolls of fabric. But Cunningham’s indulgence in technology never dulls the humanity of her music. If anything, it heightens it, as in “We are the same as we have always been,” a silken solo work for bass clarinet and electronics. Or “ska jag också bli gammal?,” a 2019 chamber work “inspired by watching a young boy on the Stockholm metro realize that he would one day grow old.” flannerycunningham.com.
See the full list on The Washington Post.
Photo: Flannery Cunningham by Aisha Ude