Henry
Flurry, an award-winning composer, pianist, and choral
conductor, was born in 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 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 at the European American Musical Alliance 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 Vomlehn Flurry regularly perform
together all across Arizona as the duo Sticks and Tones.
Mr. Flurry composes for solo instruments and ensembles of
all sizes. His works have been commissioned by many groups,
including the Atlanta Wind Symphony, Kennesaw State
University, Yavapai Community College, and Balance Duo. His
orchestral work Fanfare for My City was selected by the
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra to be their official
fanfare and has received numerous performances by that
group.