8128 Pritchard Place
New Orleans, LA 70118
email: Cwalsh21@aol.com
Cynthia Walsh has studied composition with Sanford Hinderlie, Dr. Steve Dankner, Dr. William Horne, Dr. Sylvia Pengilly, and Dr. Stephen David Beck. She holds a B.M. in Theory and Composition from Loyola University in New Orleans (1994) and a M.M. in Music Theory (Composition, secondary area) from Louisiana State University (1997). Cynthia has been an instructor of music theory and composition at Loyola University in New Orleans since the fall of 1997. This summer, she returns to the Texas Shakespeare Festival for her third season, where she has composed and sound designed children's shows and served as the assistant sound designer in previous seasons. This summer, she will compose incidental music and songs for Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, design sound effects for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and serve as the assistant sound designer for Shakespeare's Richard II. Currently, Cynthia is working on an energetic etude for piano based on the use of recurring fourths and seconds.
Study for Flute (1996)
A free and mysterious opening builds in intensity to a mechanical second section and then
briefly returns in the last few measures. Each section is loosely based on the use
of octatonic scales and twentieth century orchestrational techniques. The work was
once described by renowned theorist David Lewin as sounding "like it was written by a
flute player."
Ballade
for Cello and Electronic Tape (1994)
A serially generated work building in rhythmic intensity towards a canon between the two
mediums.
Ave Maria (1993)
Work for a capella SATB, alternating between septuple simple with an ostinato, and a freer
triple simple meter.
Wind Quintet #1
(1993-4)
Work for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and piano. Orchestrationally traditional with
multiple meter shifts.
Maximalism (1994)
Quartet for violin, viola, cello and contra bass. Aggressive work in arch form that
incorporates some basic C20 techniques for strings.
Theme
and Variations for Percussion (1994)
Work for five percussionists. Traditional battery except for the use of three aluminum
mixing bowls in the final variation.