AWARDS AND HONORS
2017
The Boston Foundation
Brother Thomas Fellowship
2025
2026
Lumen Prize
Finalist in Performance & Music
Berklee College of Music
Dean's Award for Creative Scholarship and Professional Contributions
2021
2024
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Finalist in Composition
CODAWorx
Creative Revolutionary
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INTERVIEW: PERCUSSIONIST MARIA FINKELMEIER MELDS CLASSICAL, EDM , Whatzup Ft. Wayne with Wheat Williams, March 2026
INTERVIEW: MARIA FINKELMEIER OF DIES IRAE, DESIRÉE AT BAG & BAGGAGE , Broadway World Portland with Dawn Sellers, March 2026
IMMERSIVE ARTIST AND MUSICIAN MARIA FINKELMEIER TELLS STORIES BY BLENDING GENRES, All Things Considered, NPR with Arun Roth, February 2025
KRISTIN CHENOWETH, WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL, AND FUTURE FEST, The Culture Show Podcast with Jared Bowen, 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
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AS IF THE TRUTH NEEDS MARKETING: THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC PRESENTS MARIA FINKELMEIER’S UFO CULT OPERA, DIES IRAE, DESIRÉE , Oregon Artswatch. Charles Rose. March 2026
A SENSE OF POSSIBILITY GROUNDED IN LOCAL CREATIVITY: REVIEWING THE VISUAL ART AT ELSEWHERE FEST, The Shout of Wichita Kansas, June 2024
9 NOTABLE RECORDINGS IN A YEAR OF LOCAL LISTENING. Boston Globe, December 2021
CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON AT HOME’S FREE CONCERT, ‘QUARTET KALOS: THE SONGS WE MAKE’ MAKES MEANINGFUL DEBUT. The Sleepless Critic. March 2021
THE SOUNDS OF 617: LOCAL MUSIC AFICIONADOS CHOOSE THEIR FAVORITES OF THE YEAR. Boston Globe, December 2021
A LINE THE TERMINATES AT THE PRESENT: MARIA FINKELMEIER’S COMPOSER DEBUT, by Kevin Baldwin, I Care if You Listen, 2019
GREAT BOSTON-AREA CLASSICAL ALBUMS OF 2018, Boston Globe, 2018
THESE ARTISTS MADE STUNNING MUSIC VIDEOS INSIDE THE EDISON POWER PLANT. Boston Magazine. September 2018
HARSH IS TRUTH. National Parks Magazine. Summer 2018
NEXUS HITS THE CLASSICS WITH A ROMANTIC SPIRIT IN ROCKPORT. Boston Classical Review. June 2016
THE JOY OF BUSES: ENSEMBLE EVOLUTION, DRUMATIX, AND KOR PHAI. Canberra Jazz Blog, Australia. March 2012
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American University of Sharjah (UAE) Residency, 2025
The Knight Foundation New Works, 2024
City of Boston Mayor’s Office for Arts and Culture Transformative City Grant, 2024
Berklee College of Music Faculty Fellowship, 2022
Goethe Institute, Boston’s Studio 170 Residency, 2021
City of Boston Opportunity Grant, 2020
The Boston Foundation, Live Arts Boston Grant, 2020
New England Foundation for the Arts Public Art Learning Fund, 2020
Polly Thayer Starr Visiting Studio Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2017
New England Foundation for the Arts Creative City Boston Grant, 2017
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E15 MARIA FINKELMEIER — TURNING MALLETS INTO PAINTBRUSHES & USING TECH TO CREATE A TOTAL ARTFORM 2023
DEXTER’S L.A.B.: AN INTERVIEW SERIES ON CREATIVITY. April 2021
THE PROCESS: MUSIC + CREATIVITY WITH DR. DOUG BIELMEIER. July 2020
ORIGINAL GRAVITY PODCAST: EPISODE 26 - MARIA FINKELMEIER. July 2018
BARTON BROS: EPISODE 9 - MARIA FINKELMEIER. 2018
PETE’S PERCUSSION PODCAST: EPISODE 106 - MARIA FINKELMEIER. 2018
THE @PERCUSSION PODCAST: EPISODE 8 - MARIA FINKELMEIER. 2013