Flex by Anna-Louise Walton

Bent Frequency performs Anna-Louise Walton's Flex on our 23/24 Underscore_a call for scores concert on 3/2/24.
Performed by:
Jan Berry Baker, Shelby Brooks, Erika Tazawa, and Stuart Gerber.
Anna-Louise writes the following about the piece:
In Flex, a table becomes an instrument, played with toy mallets and household objects. The performers play these items with careful technique, eliciting a variety of sounds, and blurring the line between object and instrument.
-Anna Louise-Walton
Anna-Louise Walton is an American composer of chamber, orchestral, and electronic music. In her music, she explores concepts of mimicry, the notation of improvisatory rhythms, and the utilization of household objects.
Her works have been performed by ensembles such as Hypercube Ensemble, Ekmeles, TAK Ensemble, the Bergamot Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Trio Catch, Fonema Consort, Quatuor Diotima, Mivos Quartet, Surplus Ensemble, Ecce Ensemble, Switch~ Ensemble, Versipel Collective, and the Wooster Symphony Orchestra. Her music has also been featured at Musikprotokoll, MATA Festival, IRCAM’s ManiFeste, Darmstadt International Summer Course, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Heidelberger Frühling Festival, Schloss Summer Academy, impuls Festival, VIPA Festival, Electric LaTex Festival, New Music on the Bayou, and highSCORE Festival.
In 2020, Walton served as a mentor for young composers in MATA Jr. She has received a BMI Student Composer Award (2019), the Walden County Promising Young Composers Competition Award (2021), the IAWM Choral/Vocal Ensemble Prize (2021), and the Martirano First Prize Award (2023). Recent commissions include works for Trio Zukan and for Proton Bern.
Though Walton did not start composing formally until her junior year at Scripps College, where she received a B.A. in music studying under Tom Flaherty, she grew up playing the piano and singing from a young age. She then went on to study composition at Kunstuniversität Graz with Beat Furrer. Walton received an M.A. in music composition from Tulane University in 2018, where she studied with Rick Snow. She then went on to study Sonology at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She is currently a DMA candidate in music composition at Columbia University, where her primary mentors are Zosha Di Castri, Georg Friedrich Haas, and George Lewis.

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