Majel Connery
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
Majel Connery is a composer, performer, and educator whose epic, immersive musical experiences invite audiences to enter the mind of nature. The New York Times has called her singing “superb” and the Wall Street Journal described her compositions as “thoroughly Schubertian.”
Connery’s music blends electronic processing with raw vocal power, creating works both playful and profound—part technical dazzle and part emotional healing. Her choral work The Rivers Are Our Brothers has been toured and recorded by Grammy-winning choir Chanticleer. Elderflora, her oratorio on the life and death of a tree, premiered at the Seattle Symphony and continues to tour in a variety of electro-acoustic formats.
A seasoned educator, Connery holds an A.B. in music from Princeton and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Wellesley, and is currently adjunct faculty in Music at UNM Albuquerque.
In the domain of radio, Connery created music for the 5-part series “Gonads” on WNYC/Radiolab and performed with Radiolab Live. She hosts two podcasts: A Music of Their Own (NPR/CapRadio), and Reverberations (New Amsterdam Records).
https://www.majelconnery.com