Working with Publishers & Self-Publishing for Music Creators

FOR MFS MEMBERS ONLY:

Working with Publishers &
Self-Publishing
for Music Creators

A professional development workshop
with Flannery Cunningham, composer
and Promotion Manager at G. Schirmer

Wednesday, April 8 @ 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Temple University
Presser Hall
1st Floor, Room 101
2001 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Learn how to work with music publishers, and about the pros and cons of self-publishing as a music creator. Our guest, composer Flannery Cunningham, will speak about her role as a Promotion Manager at G. Schirmer.

Offered jointly by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia and the Boyer College of Music Composing Studio at Temple University, this studio talk is open to and free for MFS Members only.

The session will take place on Wednesday, April 8 from 4–5pm in Room 101 of Presser Hall, 2001 N. 13th St (entrance is on Norris St. between 12th and 13th). Please be prepared to show your ID to enter the building.

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, PRISM Quartet, TAK, New York New Music Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, and Music from Copland House. Flannery is attracted to the very old and very new, especially 13th-14th-century song and contemporary electroacoustic technologies. In addition to acoustic ensembles she writes for players and singers with interactive electronics, always striving to foreground the musicality of human performers. A native of central Minnesota, Flannery holds degrees from Princeton University, University College Cork, and Stony Brook University as well as a joint PhD in composition and musicology from the University of Pennsylvania. Alongside her own creative work and research, she currently serves on the faculty and board of SPLICE Institute and as a promotion manager at the publisher G. Schirmer, where she works to increase programming of contemporary music by orchestras and other ensembles.