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Tom Flaherty is a composer and cellist who works with music for humans and electronics. He is Professor Emeritus at Pomona College, where he taught composition, theory, electronic music, and chamber music for many years.
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Tom Flaherty (b. 1950) is a composer and cellist who makes music for humans and electronics. Published by American Composers Editions and G. Schirmer, Inc., his compositions have been performed throughout North America and Europe, recorded on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, Klavier, Reference, Microfest, and New Focus labels, and have received numerous awards, including a Grammy nomination in 2015. He is Emeritus Faculty at Pomona College, where he taught composition, theory, electronic music, and chamber music for many years.230 words
Tom Flaherty is a composer and cellist who makes music for humans and electronics. He is Professor Emeritus at Pomona College, where he taught composition, theory, electronic music, and chamber music for many years.He earned degrees at Brandeis University, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and the University of Southern California.
His composing has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Music Center, the Pasadena Arts Council, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Delius Society, the University of Southern California, "Meet the Composer," and Yaddo. His music has been performed throughout Europe and North America by such new music ensembles as Brightwork newmusic, Eclipse Quartet, Mojave Trio, XTET and Ensemble GREEN in Los Angeles; Dinosaur Annex in Boston, Speculum Musicae and Odyssey Chamber Players in New York; Earplay and Volti in San Francisco, Concorde in Dublin (Ireland), Gallery Players in Toronto (Canada); and by such performers as soprano Lucy Shelton; guitarists David Starobin, Peter Yates, and Matthew Elgart; cellists Maggie Parkins, Robert deMaine, and Roger Lebow; violinists Sarah Thornblade and Rachel Huang; organist William Peterson; conductors Donna Di Grazia and Eric Lindholm; and pianists Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Nadia Shpachenko, Susan Svrček, Charlotte Zelka, Vicki Ray, Gloria Cheng, Aron Kallay, and Karl and Margaret Kohn.
Published by American Composers Editions and G. Schirmer, Inc., his compositions have been recorded on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, Klavier, Reference, Orchid Classic, and SEAMUS labels.
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Tom Flaherty (b. 1950) is a composer and cellist who works with music for humans and electronics.He earned degrees at Brandeis University, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and the University of Southern California, where he studied composition with Martin Boykan, Bülent Arel, and Frederick Lesemann and cello with Timothy Eddy, Bernard Greenhouse and Eleonore Schoenfeld.
Recent commissions include ConcorDance, written for Gloria Cheng and Piano Spheres; Phoenix, for Jin-Shan Dai, violin and Jennie Jung, piano; Dream Fragments for Maggie Parkins, cello, and Alison Bjorkedal, harp; Cello Concerto, for Robert deMaine, cello; and Aftermath, for Rachel Huang, violin. A recording of his Airdancing for piano, toy piano, and electronics was nominated for a Grammy in 2015.
His composition has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Music Center, the Pasadena Arts Council, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Delius Society, the University of Southern California, "Meet the Composer," and Yaddo. His music has been performed throughout Europe and North America by such new music ensembles as Eclipse Quartet, Mojave Trio, XTET and Brightwork newmusic in Los Angeles; Dinosaur Annex in Boston, Speculum Musicae and Odyssey Chamber Players in New York, Earplay and Volti in San Francisco, Concorde in Dublin (Ireland), Gallery Players in Toronto (Canada), and by such performers as soprano Lucy Shelton; cellists Maggie Parkins, Robert deMaine, and Roger Lebow; violinists Sarah Thornblade and Rachel Huang; and pianists Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Nadia Shpachenko, Susan Svrček, Vicki Ray, Aron Kallay, and Karl and Margaret Kohn.
Published by American Composers Editions and G. Schirmer, Inc., his compositions have been recorded on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, Klavier, Reference, and SEAMUS labels.
He is Professor Emeritus at Pomona College, where he taught composition, theory, electronic music, and chamber music for many years. Although he does have a preference for humans, he happily directed for 30 years the Pomona College Electronic Studio, where students and faculty created a wide variety of music, and which was the motivation for Pomona’s annual Ussachevsky Festival of Electronic Music.