Molly Joyce & Carlie Schoonees / Disability as Creative Source / Disability Pride Month / Cute Composer

🎀 Cute Composer Series: Disability Pride Month — Disability as Creative Source 🎼✨🎶 Molly Joyce is an American composer, performer, and disability arts pioneer whose entire creative practice centers disability — not as something to overcome, but as something to explore, celebrate, and build from 💙🎵 In a childhood car accident, her left hand was severely injured and nearly amputated, leaving it permanently impaired. She has achieved this not so much despite a severe impairment of her left hand but through it, The Washington Post wrote. Her primary instrument is a vintage electric toy organ she found on eBay — an instrument she bought on eBay which suits her body and engages her disability on a compositional and performative level 🎹 Her 2022 album Perspective features the voices and viewpoints of disabled interviewees; her 2025 album State Change uses surgical records as musical lyrics with adaptive music technologies. She holds degrees from Juilliard, Yale, and a Master's in Disability Studies. Her work has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, performed at TEDx, and praised by the NY Times, The Wire, and Vulture ✨ Carlie Schoonees is a South African composer based in Cape Town who is autistic and publicly open about how autism shapes her compositional life and creative identity 🎶🌿 Her music explores sound, texture, and structure through an autistic lens — creating work that is distinctively, unapologetically her own. She has spoken about the structural barriers that keep disabled composers from concert halls even after pandemic live-streaming briefly opened the doors, and she uses her platform to advocate for genuine accessibility in classical music 💙 Both Joyce and Schoonees represent a new generation of composers for whom disability is not incidental context — it is the subject, the method, and the art itself ✨ 👉 Which one's music do you want to explore more? VOTE BELOW👇& follow @daixcompose for more Cute Composer spotlights 💙 Recordings:

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