Henry Flurry
Featured
on New Music Arizona
Concert, June
14, 2009, 3:00 PM
Henry Flurry
(www.HenryFlurry.com) is an award-winning
composer and a pianist. He grew up in a musical family
in New Orleans, Louisiana, and he began his formal
composition studies at the New Orleans Center for
Creative Arts, where he studied with New Orleans
composers Bert Braud and Ellis Marsalis. At Northwestern
University School of Music, he studied under M. William
Karlins, and in Ann Arbor, MI he studied extensively
under Marianne Ploger, a protégée of Nadia Boulanger. In
2001, he received a scholarship to study composition in
Paris, France under Philip Lasser, Narcis Bonet, Michel
Merlet, and Samual Adler.
In 1987, he joined the Center for Performing Arts and
Technology at the University of Michigan’s School of Music
to teach computer music and research ways technology can be
used in the arts. From there he went on to co-found Media
Station, Inc., where he collaborated with artists to create
multimedia children CD-ROMs for many different publishers,
including Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Scholastic, Crayola, IBM,
and Harper Collins. In 2002, he and his family moved to
Prescott, AZ. There he composes and teaches composition and
piano. He and his wife Maria regularly perform together all
across Arizona as the duo Sticks and Tones. Henry Flurry is a
juried member of the Arizona Arts Commission Artist
Roster.