Maria Vomlehn Flurry
Featured on New
Music Arizona Concert, June 8, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Maria Vomlehn
Flurry is an experienced orchestral
percussionist, timpanist, and music educator. She is
principal percussionist for the Flagstaff Symphony.
She has performed with many orchestras around the
country, including Baltimore, Detroit, Baltimore
Chamber, Michigan Opera Theater, and the Phoenix
Symphony. She was a member of the Flint Symphony
Orchestra for 15 years. Maria Flurry has backed up
such artists as Kenny Loggins, Ray Charles, and
Mannheim Steamroller. She received a standing ovation
for her performance of the
Water Concerto for
Water Percussion and Orchestra composed by Tan
Dun.
Maria has launched a multi-year commissioning project to
create concert music that explores the bridge between world
music and classical orchestral music. For the 2007
Chaparral MusicFest
New Music Arizona
Concert, she will perform
Canto de Alba,
a concerto by Kenneth LaFave - the first of these
commissioned works.
Maria is a roster artist of the Arizona Commission on the
Arts.
