Joy Guidry
{{Short description|American composer and bassoonist (born 1995)}}
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| birth_place = Houston
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| instrument = Bassoon
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| label = Whited Sepulchre Records
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Joy Guidry (born October 12, 1995) is an American bassoonist and composer.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Home |url=https://www.guidrybassoon.com/ |website=Joy Guidry |access-date=20 February 2024}}
Early life
Guidry was born in Houston and first became interested in music through her exposure to gospel music at church.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=AMEN by Joy Guidry |url=https://guidrybassoon.bandcamp.com/album/amen |website=Bandcamp |access-date=20 February 2024}}
Career
Guidry graduated from the Peabody Institute in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in bassoon performance, after which she participated in a fellowship at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Joy Guidry Wins 2021 Berlin Prize for Young Artists |url=https://magazine.peabody.jhu.edu/2022/07/05/joy-guidry-wins-2021-berlin-prize-for-young-artists/ |website=The Peabody Post |access-date=20 February 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Guidry |first1=Joy |title=Discussing Diversity with Joy Guidry |url=https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/magazine/the-world-does-not-want-me-to-love-myself/197 |website=Lucerne Festival |access-date=20 February 2024}} She earned a diploma from Mannes School of Music the following year.{{cite web |last1=Alzuphar |first1=Adolph |title=A Momentous Bassoon |url=https://www.nationalsawdust.org/articles/a-momentous-bassoon |website=National Sawdust |access-date=20 February 2024}}
In 2021, Guidry was awarded the Berlin Prize for Young Artists for her Radical Self-Love program.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Violist Flora Marlene Geißelbrecht and bassoonist Joy Guidry win the 2021 Berlin Prize for Young Artists |url=https://mailchi.mp/van-magazine/tk-und-tk-gewinnen-den-2020-berlin-prize-for-young-artists-2667523 |website=Van Magazine |access-date=20 February 2024}} Her debut album, Radical Acceptance, was released in February 2022.{{cite web |last1=Hussey |first1=Allison |title=26 Great Records You May Have Missed: Winter 2022 |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/great-records-you-may-have-missed-winter-2022/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=20 February 2024}} That year, she served on a panel of curators to select projects from new artists to be recorded on the American Composers Forum innova Recordings label.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Nine Projects Selected for innova Recordings’ Second National Call |url=https://composersforum.org/strongnine-projects-selected-for-innova-recordingsnbsp-strong/ |website=American Composers Forum |access-date=20 February 2024}}
Guidry is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in music at University of California, San Diego.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Joy Guidry, bassoon – DMA Recital |url=https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php?now=1&query_event_code=20221020-Guidry |website=UC San Diego Music |access-date=20 February 2024}} After touring with her dissertation project, AMEN, a recording of the work will be released in May 2024.{{cite web |last1=Thomas |first1=Sarah |title=Finding Amen: Joy Guidry Speaks |url=https://www.jazzspeaks.org/jazz-speaks/finding-amen-joy-guidry-speaks |website=Jazz Speaks |access-date=20 February 2024}}
=Compositions=
==''Y'all don't wanna listen''==
In 2020, the National Sawdust Ensemble commissioned and premiered Y'all don't wanna listen, a work by Guidry for cello, alto flute, and violin.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=NEW WORKS COMMISSION CONCERT: NATIONAL SAWDUST ENSEMBLE |url=https://icareifyoulisten.tv/new-works-commission-concert-national-sawdust-ensemble/ |website=I Care if You Listen.tv |access-date=20 February 2024}}
==''A Prayer for Protection''==
A Prayer for Protection, a work for seven double basses, was commissioned by the New World Symphony for 2021–2022 BLUE project bass fellows.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=NWS Blue Project Annual Report 2021-22 |url=https://www.nws.edu/media/202101/nws-blue-projects-annual-report-2021-22.pdf |website=New World Symphony |access-date=20 February 2024}}
==''This just don't make no sense''==
Guidry's "mini-opera" for soprano, double bass, and oboe, This just don't make sense was commissioned by the Long Beach Opera for a virtual performance by the ensemble in November 2020.{{cite web |last1=Nockin |first1=Maria |title=Review: LONG BEACH OPERA'S SONGBOOK at Home Computer Screens |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/BWW-Review-LONG-BEACH-OPERAS-SONGBOOK-at-Home-Computer-Screens-20201116 |website=BroadwayWorld Los Angeles |access-date=20 February 2024}}
==''They know what they've done to us''==
Titled after a 1968 quote from activist Fannie Lou Hamer, They Know What They've Done To Us was commissioned by the I&I Foundation and premiered at the 2022 Lucerne Festival, where it was performed by trumpet player Aaron Akugbo and pianist Zeynep Özsuca.{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Diary |url=https://www.aaronakugbotrumpet.com/diary |website=Aaron Akugbo |access-date=20 February 2024}}{{cite web |last1=n.a. |title=Aaron Akugbo |url=https://www.ram.ac.uk/people/aaron-akugbo |website=Royal Academy of Music |access-date=20 February 2024}}
Personal life
Guidry is Christian and identifies as queer. Her 2022 work Radical Acceptance explores her journey with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.{{cite web |last1=Adolphe |first1=Julian |title=Joy Guidry: Transforming Trauma through the Creative Process |url=https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/joy-guidry-transforming-trauma-through-the-creative-process/ |website=New Music USA |access-date=20 February 2024}}
Discography
=Albums=
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|+List of albums, with selected details ! scope="col" style="width:8em;" | Title ! scope="col" style="width:20em;" | Details |
| scope="row" | Radical Acceptance
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| scope="row" | AMEN
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=Singles=
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|+List of singles with selected details ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Year ! scope="col" | Album |
| scope="row" | "Almost There"
| 2023 | {{Non-album single}} |
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| scope="row" | "Day By Day"
| 2023 | AMEN |