Selected Press

March 25, 2024

"Jeudi 28 mars 2024 à 19 h, la vocaliste internationale de blues Christina Goh et l'orchestratrice synesthète primée Mary Bichner proposent une rencontre poétique en sons et lumières dans les salons Ronsard, spécialement aménagés pour ce spectacle inédit. […] En effet, Mary Bichner qui est orchestratrice synesthète, 'voit la musique'. Lorsqu’elle compose, la synesthésie lui permet d’associer les notes de musique à des couleurs spécifiques."

October 1, 2023 (Autumn 2023 Issue)

Biographical article penned by Mary at the invitation of Art et Poésie Touraine for their Autumn 2023 issue, describing her synesthetic composition process and travels in France. Written in English by Mary and translated into French by Art et Poésie de Touraine.

July 28, 2023

Video interview about Mary’s 2016-2017 Mount Auburn Cemetery composer residency.

June 10, 2022 (Summer 2022 Special Issue, “The Brain”)

“When Mary Bichner composes music, she’s transcribing the auditory language of the colors around her, something most people’s brains can’t do. […] From 2016 to 2017, she was the composer-in-residence at [Mount Auburn Cemetery]…the environment was ideal for a brain delighted by color.”

April 1, 2022

“[V]ibe out at the Museum of Science for a Parnassian program featuring composers Mary Bichner and Christina Goh as they present musical settings of poems by esteemed lyrical laureates, including Yves Bonnefoy, Emily Dickinson and Phillis Wheatley.”

November 1, 2021 (Nov 2021 Issue)

“Mount Auburn has run an artist-in-residence programme since 2014, billed as the first of its kind at an American cemetery. Mary Bichner, a Boston composer, took its second residency in 2016-17. […] In two chamber suites, Bichner captured impressions of flower gardens and dells, autumn foliage and stained-glass windows.”

June 23, 2021

“Le 9 juin [2021], le réseau VIES 37 (Vivre et intervenir ensemble face au suicide) a organisé à l’Institut de Touraine une masterclass avec Mary Bichner, compositrice invitée du projet artistique Ut Fortis. […] Dans ce cadre, une série d’ateliers poétiques ont été menés par la poétesse Christina Goh, initiatrice de Ut Fortis, avec les étudiants de l’Institut. C’est la première fois qu’elles étaient ensemble sur scène en France, réunies par ce projet solidaire de la prévention du suicide.”

April 9, 2020

“‘When I play piano, the individual keys light up in their respective colors,’ [says Bichner]. Ditto for letters and numbers: ‘A typical phrase looks like this’, she demonstrates, typing those words using a kaleidoscopic array of letters.”