Press

Highlights

  • "Finkelmeier, like her work, has many identities: digital media artist, sonic explorer, musician, composer, educator, entrepreneur. A trailblazer in experiential art, she blends music and technology to craft large-scale performative works that provoke reflection and encourage connection."

    Maria FInkelmeier’s Multi-Sensory Music, Interview by Sarah Jones

    April 2024

    Yamaha MusicUSA

  • “…at MAD Arts Gallery in Dania Beach, Boston composer Maria Finkelmeier wants visitors to paint streaks of color on a projection screen with an unlikely musical instrument: the marimba.”

    Ignite Broward 2023: Free interactive art show to light up Fort Lauderdale, Dania Beach

    January 2023

    SunSentinel

  • “The installation’s name came from the artists’ intention to find common threads of movement and rhythm in the submissions and weave them together. “That’s the purpose surrounding all of this. The opportunity to layer everybody’s reality upon one another."

    Artists digitally remix the everyday sights and sounds of Allston-Brighton in ‘Frequencies’

    January 2022

    Harvard Gazette

  • "All the while, Finkelmeier has noticed that younger female artists keep asking for her insights about being a woman in the music industry. Those inquiries, coupled with the deep reflections the pandemic forced upon her, led Finkelmeier to reevaluate how gender has impacted her work, what kind of art she aims to make, and who her collaborators should be."

    Artist Maria Finkelmeier lights up the Esplanade with her feminist vision for ‘Hatched’

    January 2021

    Boston Globe

  • ”Laurenz and Finkelmeier hope people who dare to listen to their conjurings on “Descended” will walk away with a mixture of terror and excitement that inspires them to learn more about Lafcadio Hearn.”

    A Boston composer resurrects 19th-century ghost stories for Halloween

    October 2021

    WBUR

  • “…the intention of Beyond Walls: to explore new forms of artistic expression by thinking beyond the traditional definitions of performance space and artistic discipline-and, as Finkelmeier notes, to empower every performer involved to also be a creator.”

    Beyond Walls: Creating Cross-Disciplinary Art in Public Space

    December 2021

    Boston Conservatory’s Magazine

Projects

Kristin Chenoweth, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Future Fest, The Culture Show Podcast, July 2024

FUTURE FEST Announced At Boston's City Hall Plaza In August, Broadway World, July 2024

A sense of possibility grounded in local creativity: reviewing the visual art at Elsewhere Fest, The Shout of Wichita Kansas, June 2024

Rich Collaborations Feature, Melody Figments, CODAworx Magazine, January 2024

Percussionist Maria Finkelmeier: “A human in a digital space,” Leonore Overture by Keith Powers, April 2023

Rich CollaborationS, Frequencies, CODAworx Magazine, May 2022

Immersive art and music experience coming to Cambridge's Longy School of Music, the Me you See, All Things Considered, GBH, April 2022

With a new series, BSO’s Lucia Lin insists: “Classical music is not Eurocentric”, Boston Globe, April 2021

Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Memorial Celebrates 20th Anniversary, North Shore Magazine, August 2021 

Nubian Square comes alive with ‘Nubian Nights’, Bay State Banner, March 2021

A dazzling ‘illumination and sound experience’ is coming to the Hatch Shell, Hatched, Boston.com, 2021

Open Studios with Jared Bowen, Hatched, GBH, 2021 

TECHNOLOGY & ART VIII. Hatched: Breaking Through the Silence. Hatched, CODAworx Magazine, August 2021

Audio Art is Blossoming During the Pandemic, Vulture, February 2021

West Roxbury musician's multimedia program to light up the Hatch Shell, Metrowest Daily News, January 2021

Roebling display didn’t happen overnight, Cincy native principal of team that brought it to BLINK, Northern Kentucky Tribune, 2019

Making The Singing Bridge Sing: How’d They Do That?, by Bill Rinehart, Cincinnati Public Radio WVXU, 2019

Rumblin’ on the Roebling: BLINK adds original soundtrack to iconic “Singing Bridge, ” Cincinnati WCPO, 2019 

Knowing the Space of Know No. The Boston Musical Intelligencer. March 2017

Jamaica Plain Percussionist Maria Finkelmeier leading summer workshops at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.  Jamaica Plain Patch. May 2017

Q. and A. with local musician Maria Finkelmeier. Jamaica Plain Gazette. June 2017

92 percussionists with 650 instruments will descend upon the Arboretum Sunday. Boston Globe Arts. June 2016

Making the Green Monster sing. Boston Globe Ideas. September 2015

The Green Monster will become a musical instrument for 1 day this fall. Boston.com. August 2015.

All Aboard the Beat Bus: School bus becomes a recording studio for kids.  Boston Globe Business. July 2015

Times Two envisions new musical opportunities, communities. Boston Globe. June 2015

Ensemble Evolution brings treetop sounds to arboretum. Boston Globe. November 2013 

Marching to Their Own Drummers. New York Times. December 2011

Album Reviews

Live Performance Reviews

Awards

Berklee College of Music FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, Office of Faculty Development, 2022

Alternative Power 100 Music Honoree from She Said So and Patreon, 2021

Project [DESCENDED] Best Musical Film, Rome Music Video Awards, 2021

Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, 2021.

Project [Hatched] awarded Social Impact Award, Boston Design Week, 2021.

Project [Rumble] named Top 100 most successful design projects that integrate commissioned art into an interior, architectural, or public space, CODAworx, 2020. 

Finalist, City of Boston Mayor’s Arts and Cultural Fellowship, 2019

Creative Catalyst: 2018 Winner. Improper Bostonian. July 2018

Brother Thomas Fellowship. The Boston Foundation, 2017 

Top 10 of the Year in Classical Music. Boston Globe Arts. December 2016

Podcasts

Leadership