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First name: Thomas
Last name: Flaherty
Dates: 1950
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Dancing with gravity (2000)
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.pytheasmusic.org/flaherty.html
Information: Tom Flaherty earned degrees at Brandeis University, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and the University of Southern California; his primary teachers in composition include Martin Boykan, Bulent Arel, Robert Linn, and Frederick Lesemann. He studied cello with Timothy Eddy and Bernard Greenhouse.A founding member of the Almont Ensemble, he currently holds the John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professorship in Music and is Director of the Electronic Studio at Pomona College. He is an active cellist in the Los Angeles area. Recent commissions include A Heckuva Job for guitarist David Starobin, When Time Was Young for Lucy Shelton, Moments of Inertia for Dinosaur Annex, and Gleeful Variants for Genevieve Lee.