(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)

Title: Axis Mundi
Commission: 2003
Completed: 2005
Instrumentation: amplified flute and chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Yerba Buena Forum, San Francisco
Premiere Ensemble: Earplay
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Title: Into the Wild
Commission: 1995
Completed: 1997
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble and electronics
Premiere Location: California State University, Chico, CA
Premiere Ensemble: Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band
Notes: Dedicated to the Paul Dresher Ensemble.

Transparent yet richly multifaceted, Cindy Cox’s compositions synthesize old and new musical designs. The natural world inspires many of the special harmonies and textural colorations in her compositions, as in her piano trio la mar amarga, the octet Cañon, and the string quartet Patagón. As Robert Carl notes in Fanfare, “Cox writes music that demonstrates an extremely refined and imaginative sense of instrumental color and texture . . . this is well-wrought, imaginative, and not easily classifiable music.”

As a pianist, Cox has performed and recorded many of her solo piano compositions, including the Sylvan pieces, Hierosgamos: Seven Studies in Harmony and Resonance, and The Blackbird whistling/Or just after. A number of her works feature advanced technologies developed at UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), such as the Piano Sampler Etudes and Pianos. Works with text, such as Singing the lines, The Other Side of the World, and Hysteria evolved through collaboration with her husband, poet John Campion. Together they are currently collaborating on a musical theater and dance project, The Road to Xibalba, based on an ancient Mayan creation myth.

Cox has received awards and commissions from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, New Music USA, and the Fulbright Foundation. She has been a Fellow at Tanglewood, Aspen, the MacDowell Colony, Civitella Ranieri, and the Giardini La Mortella on the island of Ischia.