Thomas E. Flaherty

Tom Flaherty is a composer and cellist who works with music both for human performers and for electronics. Although he has a preference for human performers, he also directs the Pomona College Electronic Studio, where students and faculty create a wide variety of music, and which is the motivation for Pomona’s annual Ussachevsky Festival of Electronic Music.

As a cellist, Flaherty has performed solos at Jordan Hall in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Disney Hall’s REDCAT, LACMA’s Bing Theater, and the Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles, and often plays new and vintage chamber music in the Los Angeles area.

As a composer, Flaherty has seen his music performed throughout Europe and North America by such new-music ensembles as Dinosaur Annex in Boston, Speculum Musicae and Odyssey Chamber Players in New York, Earplay and Volti in San Francisco, Concorde in Dublin, Ireland, Gallery Players in Toronto (Canada), XTET and Ensemble GREEN in Los Angeles; as well as by such performers as soprano Lucy Shelton; guitarists David Starobin, Peter Yates, and Matthew Elgart; organist William Peterson; and pianists Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Nadia Shpachenko, Susan Svrček, Charlotte Zelka, and Karl and Margaret Kohn.

Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and American Composers Editions, his compositions have been recorded on the Albany, Klavier, Bridge, SEAMUS, Capstone, and Advance labels.