UPCOMING EVENTS

Speaker: Keynote and Workshops | MICA CESI Conference, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, October 2-3, 2026

What is Your Light | MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life, Cambridge, MA, November 3, 2026

Former Self Live Performance and Workshops | Kutztown University Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research, Kutztown, MA, November 8, 2026

Coiled | Commissioned by the Furman University Percussion Ensemble for its premiere at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 13, 2026

Musician performing onstage with drums, keyboards, projection screens, and purple lighting
Musicians perform on percussion instruments before an audience beneath colorful floating-particle projections.
Maria Finkelmeier performing beneath blue lighting at a crowded indoor event with abstract projected visuals
Maria Finkelmeier performing onstage behind a xylophone and colorful musical bells under dramatic lighting.
Nighttime projection-mapped light display on a Whole Foods Market building, with colorful abstract patterns, outdoor seating, shoppers, and surrounding apartments.

2026

Chameleon | World Premiere, The South Florida Center for Percussive Arts, Miami, FL, January 30-31, 2026

Speaker | Arts+Entrepreneurship Workshop, Office for the Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
February 19, 2026

Dies Irae, Desirée | Chamber Opera World Premiere, Third Angle New Music, Portland, OR, March 13-15, 2026

Former Self Live Performance and Entrepreneurship Workshops | Pearl Arts, Fort Wayne, IN, April 7-8, 2026

Mentor | Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute, Fenway 22 at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, April 22, 2026

Boston Festival Orchestra | Jordan Hall, Boston, MA, July 11, 2026

Best of Boston with the Landmarks Orchestra | The Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston, MA, July 22, 2026

New Hampshire Music Festival | PSU Silver Center For The Arts, Plymouth, NH, July 30, 2026

Former Self Live Performance and Workshop | Art Intersection MKE, Milwaukee, WI, August 22, 2026

RE:VOLTAGE (proto-pilot) | Mother Brook Arts & Community Center, Dedham, MA, September 10, 2026

2025

Oscillation to the Edge Video Installation | Expo Sunderland, UK, January 29th and ongoing, 2025

Live Performance with Angela Shankar and Steph Davis| Celebrity Series of Boston Neighborhood Arts Series, Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, February 8, 2025

Live Performance with Angela Shankar | Celebrity Series of Boston Neighborhood Arts Series, Patrick Lyndon Pilot School, Boston MA, February 10, 2025

Guest Lecturer | Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA, February 12, 2025

Masterclass | Boston Arts Academy, Boston, MA, February 13, 2025

FREQUENCIES: Broward | IGNITE Broward, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, February 14-23, 2025

Mentor | Upside Down Universe, Berklee Performance Center, February 25, 2025

Guest Lecturer | Eastman School of Music (online), Rochester, NY, February 28, 2025

Co-Director + Co-Producer | Inuksuit at Southern Exposure, University of South Carolina, March 29, 2025

Artist in Residence: Former Self Live Performance and Entrepreneurship Workshops | The American University of Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates, April 14-19, 2025

Live Performance | Museum of Science, Boston, May 10, 2025

Masterclass | Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Lenox, MA, May 30, 2025

Live Performance | Landmarks Orchestra, Boston, July 23, 2025

FREQUENCIES: Fenway | Various Locations, Boston, MA, October 4-23, 2025

What Is Your Light | MIT Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life, Cambridge, MA, October 20, 2025

Co-Producer | Inuksuit at The Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 15, 2025

2024

Speaker | New England Conservatory, Online, February 8, 2024

Live Performance | Roundhead Brewing Company, Boston, MA, February 18, 2024

Speaker | AudioVerse Lab at Berklee, Boston, MA, February 28, 2024

Speaker | The Rockport Music Center Speaker Series, Rockport, MA, March 2, 2024

DESCENDED | The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, March 23, 2024

Speaker | The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, March 25, 2024

Online Performance + Presentation | Indiana University, online, March 27, 2024

Speaker | Chamber Music America, online, May 7, 2024

Speaker | Berklee Online “In-Person,” Boston, MA, June 1, 2024

Live Performance| Elsewhere Festival, Wichita, KA, June 21, 2024

FREQUENCIES: Wichita | Elsewhere Festival, Wichita, KA, June 21-22, 2024

Live Performance + Presentation | Yamaha Young Performing Artists, Ball State, IN, June 24, 2024

Live Performance | Performing Arts Center, Brewster, MA, June 29, 2024

FUTURE FEST Live Performance + Former/Future Installation + Producers | Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA, August 3, 2024

Live Performance | Arrow Fest, Arrow Street Arts, Cambridge, MA, September 12, 2024

Grounded | MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA, September 16, 2024

Grounded | MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA, October 10, 2024

Keynote Speaker | CodaSummit, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 17, 2024

DESCENDED | University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 19-20, 2024

Live Performance + Clinic | Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 15, 2024

Former Self Live Performance | Lights Out, MassArt Art Museum, Boston, MA, December 5, 2024

FREQUENCIES: Hyde Park | Roundhead Brewing Company, Boston, MA, December 13-14, 2024

2023

Melody Figments Performance + Installation |  IGNITE Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, January 25-29  

Live Performance | Celebrity Series of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, March 18-19

Speaker | CodaSUMMIT NFT, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, March 29-30

Melody Figments Installation | Phygital Cities of the Future Exhibition, March 31 - April 22

Threads of Assumption | The City of East Hartford, Connecticut, April 1 - 30

Live Performance | Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York, April 15

Melody Figments Performance | Roundhead Brewing Company, Boston, MA, April 20

Speaker | ETH Boston, Boston, MA, April 29

Live Performance | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, May 29

DESCENDED | Workshop, Boston, MA, June

Melody Figments Performance + Installation | Encounters, Portland, ME, August

Live Performance | VALIS by Tod Machover, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, September 8-10

DESCENDED | Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Asian Art, Washington DC, September 24

Digital Art Release | MakersPlace, Online, October

Panelist | Fund Your Career at the Percussive Arts International Convention, November

2022 

Live Performance | Acme Collider at Hermosa Music, Los Angeles, California 

Live performance | Boston Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

Oscillation to the Edge NFT Collection | CODAworx, Denver, Colorado 

Threads of Assumption | Installation Space, North Adams, Massachusetts

The Me You See | New Gallery Concert Series, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2021 

Hatched: Breaking through the Silence | Esplanade Association, Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston, MA 

Frequences: Allston-Brighton | Harvard Ed Portal, Allston, Massachusetts

DESCENDED | Album Release, Worldwide

Centuries in the Making | LuminArtz, Gloucester, Massachusetts 

Threads of Assumption | Goethe Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Beyond Walls | Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Boston, Massachusetts 

Quartet Kalos | Celebrity Series of Boston, online 

Nubian Nights | Roxbury Cultural District, Roxbury, Massachusetts

SELECT PREVIOUS WORK

Project Daydream | Celebrity Series of Boston and Boston Center for the Arts, online, 2020 

Rumble | BLINK Cincinnati, Ohio, 2019

Flow Through | Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2018 

IronSounds | The USS Constitution Museum, Charlestown, MA, 2018 

Know No. | Boston Center for the Arts, Massachusetts, 2017

#improvaday Live | I = u festival at Open Senses, London, UK, 2017

Inuksuit by John Luther Adams | Kadence Arts, Boston, MA, 2016  

Waking the Monster at Fenway Park |  ILLUMINUS Boston, Massachusetts, 2015 

Beat Bus | Co-Creator and Teaching Artist, Kadence Arts, throughout New England, 2015 - 2020  

Make Music Boston | Artistic Director, Kadence Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, 2014-2018