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Cynthia Folio (* 24 December 1954 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American composer, flutist and music educator.

Life

The daughter of a member of the US Army, her childhood years included three years in Germany and three years in Panama, where she had flute lessons with Eduardo Charpentier and studied solfège at the Panama Conservatory. She then studied music theory and flute at the Eastman School of Music until 1985 and music theory and composition with Joseph Schwantner, Robert Morris and Larry Nelson and flute with Bonita Boyd and Emily Swartley Newbold at West Chester University until 1989.

She has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from West Chester University, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities Award and eleven consecutive ASCAP Standard Awards, has been Composer in Residence at the Yaddo Artists’ Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has won the 1994 and 1999 New Music Delaware Competition and the National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition.

In addition to her work as a composer, Folio has published music theory articles in various journals and performed as a flutist with ensembles such as the Network for New Music, the Hildegard Chamber Players, the Latin Fiesta and David’s Harp groups, the Silver and Wood Trio, and the Temple Faculty New Music Trio (with Jeffrey Solow and Charles Abramovic). She taught flute at Texas Christian University from 1980 to 1990 and has since been a professor of music theory and composition at Temple University.

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