| Joy Guidry | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | October 12, 1995 Houston |
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| Occupation | Composer |
| Instrument | Bassoon |
| Labels | Whited Sepulchre Records |
| Website | guidrybassoon |
Joy Guidry (born October 12, 1995) is an American bassoonist and composer. [1]
| Joy Guidry | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Background information | |
| Born | October 12, 1995 Houston |
| Genres |
|
| Occupation | Composer |
| Instrument | Bassoon |
| Labels | Whited Sepulchre Records |
| Website | guidrybassoon |
Joy Guidry (born October 12, 1995) 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]
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]
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 work for seven double basses, was commissioned by the New World Symphony for 2021–2022 BLUE project bass fellows. [12]
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]
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]
Guidry is Christian and identifies as queer. [10] [4] Her 2022 work Radical Acceptance explores her journey with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. [16]
| Title | Details |
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| Radical Acceptance |
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| AMEN |
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| Title | Year | Album |
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| "Almost There" | 2023 | Non-album single |
| "Day By Day" | 2023 | AMEN |
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