Meet 2022 faculty member Flannery Cunningham!
Wildflower Composers Festival 2022 faculty member spotlight
Flannery Cunningham
Flannery Cunningham is a composer and musicologist fascinated by vocal expression, text, and auditory perception. She aims to write music that surprises and delights. Called “silken” by the Washington Post, her work has been performed at festivals such as Aspen, June in Buffalo, Toronto Creative Music Lab, SPLICE Institute and Festival, and Copland House’s CULTIVATE and by performers such as International Contemporary Ensemble, TAK, New York New Music Ensemble, and Music from Copland House. Current projects include commissions from PRISM Quartet, Musiqa Houston, and Princeton University’s Glee Club.
Check out an excerpt of “Groundwater”, a multimedia musical work that will premiere this spring.
Flannery is attracted to the very old and very new; she has presented at the International Medieval Congress and performed at the International Computer Music Conference. In addition to acoustic ensembles she writes for players and singers (sometimes including herself) with interactive electronics, always striving to foreground the musicality of human performers. Flannery holds degrees from Princeton University, University College Cork, and Stony Brook University, and she is currently a PhD candidate in composition and musicology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Our 2022 festival application closes on April 1!
We invite any gender-marginalized composer between the ages of 13–19 to join us from July 11–22 at Temple University! Student composers will receive private composition lessons, participate in coursework and new music ensemble, and receive a world premiere performance of a new composition. Apply by April 1.
Check out our Festival page for more information about our season, eligibility, and financial aid.
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