Maria Finkelmeier

Named a “one-woman dynamo” by the Boston Globe, Maria Finkelmeier is a composer, percussionist, educator, and new media artist. As owner of MF Dynamics—an experimental studio creating large-scale performative art works in public spaces and multimedia experiences at art and concert venues—she leads a team of collaborators in designing and producing work that is narrative driven and socially responsive.

Empowered by sonic exploration, her projects have been staged and installed in unexpected spaces, such as Fenway Park’s Green Monster; the Treehotel in Harads, Sweden; Boston Center for the Arts’ historic Cyclorama; the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Boston’s Hatch Memorial Shell; Cincinnati’s Roebling Bridge; the Goethe-Institut; and Frost Ice Bar. Whether it’s scoring for conceptual art films, creating dance beats out of sourced audio samples from everyday urban life, or serving as both director and performer in multisensory productions, her work continually transcends both genre and medium.

Finkelmeier’s cutting-edge work has been supported and acknowledged by the Boston Foundation, CODAworx, Boston Design Week, New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Brother Thomas Fellowship. It has also been featured in the Boston Globe, National Parks Magazine, Boston Magazine, and Vulture, and on WGBH, WBUR, CBS Boston, and Cincinnati Public Radio.