Joy Guidry
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- Jazz
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- ambient
Joy Guidry | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Houston, Texas, United States |
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| Occupation | Composer |
| Instrument | Bassoon |
| Labels | Whited Sepulchre Records |
| Website | guidrybassoon |
Joy Guidry is an American bassoonist and composer.[1]
Guidry was born in Houston and first became interested in music through her exposure to gospel music at church.[2]
Career
Guidry graduated from the Peabody Institute in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in bassoon performance, after which she participated in a fellowship at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.[3][4] She earned a diploma from Mannes School of Music the following year.[5]
In 2021, Guidry was awarded the Berlin Prize for Young Artists for her Radical Self-Love program.[6] Her debut album, Radical Acceptance, was released in February 2022.[7] That year, she served on a panel of curators to select projects from new artists to be recorded on the American Composers Forum innova Recordings label.[8]
Guidry is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in music at University of California, San Diego.[9] After touring with her dissertation project, AMEN, a recording of the work will be released in May 2024.[10]
Compositions
Y'all don't wanna listen
In 2020, the National Sawdust Ensemble commissioned and premiered Y'all don't wanna listen, a work by Guidry for cello, alto flute, and violin.[11]
A Prayer for Protection
A Prayer for Protection, a work for seven double basses, was commissioned by the New World Symphony for 2021–2022 BLUE project bass fellows.[12]
This just don't make no sense
Guidry's "mini-opera" for soprano, double bass, and oboe, This just don't make sense was commissioned by the Long Beach Opera for a virtual performance by the ensemble in November 2020.[13]
They know what they've done to us
Titled after a 1968 quote from activist Fannie Lou Hamer, They Know What They've Done To Us was commissioned by the I&I Foundation and premiered at the 2022 Lucerne Festival, where it was performed by trumpet player Aaron Akugbo and pianist Zeynep Özsuca.[14][15][4]