# Cindy Cox ![Cindy Cox](/sites/g/files/omnuum3121/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/fromm/files/cindy_cox.jpg?itok=0iMIxOz6) laptop\_windows [(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)](/people/cindy-cox) Title: *Axis Mundi* Commission: 2003 Completed: 2005 Instrumentation: amplified flute and chamber ensemble Premiere Location: Yerba Buena Forum, San Francisco Premiere Ensemble: Earplay Notes: 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. - ## Commission Date [1995](/commissiondate/1995) [2003](/commissiondate/2003) - ## Completion Date [1997](/completiondate/1997) [2005](/completiondate/2005) - ## Composer [Cox, Cindy](/composer/cox-cindy) - ## Commissions [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)