Astrid Hubbard Flynn
Composer
| Years at Source: | 2018 |
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| Biography: | Seamus Hubbard Flynn (b. 1999), from Minnesota, is a composer, flutist and pianist whose mediums range from staff notation to text-based and graphic-based improvisation. Seamus is currently pursuing a B.A. in Music at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he has studied composition with Kristina Warren, Shawn Jaeger, Eric Nathan and Wang Lu. Outside Brown, he has also studied with Libby Larsen, Abbie Betinis and Edie Hill. While in high school, Seamus co-led NextNotes Lab, a student-run composer ensemble affiliated with the American Composers Forum, and he has more recently helped organize concerts through Brown's student composer organization, Fermata. Seamus has also had his music performed by professional ensembles such as Minnesota's Zeitgeist, New York's YarnWire and Switzerland's Kukuruz Quartet, and at summer festivals such as Minnesota's Source Song Festival and Maine's Atlantic Music Festival. |
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| Source Moment: | My lesson with Libby Larsen, where she analyzed harmonic text-painting that I did not realize I'd done, and pointed out places where it was lacking, allowing me to see the song cycle I'd written in a completely different way. |
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