Chloe Flower: Fusing Classical Music with Pop, Hip-Hop, and House

The "Popsical" Genre

• 💡 Chloe Flower, an American pianist and composer, is on a mission to introduce young people to classical music.
• 🎯 She achieves this by collaborating with artists from rap, house, and pop genres, creating her own unique style coined "Popsical".
• 🚀 Flower explains that "Popsical" is a blend of popular and classical music, differentiating her from being solely a hip-hop or house pianist.

Collaboration and Empowerment

• 🌟 Flower gained significant attention after Cardi B featured her piano arrangement of Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" in a Grammy performance.
• 👏 Cardi B's support extended to giving Flower a central moment during the performance and even funding the restoration of a Liberace piano.
• 🤝 This collaboration highlighted the theme of women empowering women within the music industry.

Reviving Female Composers

• 🎶 Flower's latest Christmas album, "She Composed: The Holidays," focuses on music entirely written by female composers.
• 📜 The album features composers like Kassiani, an early Byzantine composer from modern-day Istanbul, and Florence Price, an African-American composer from the late 1800s/early 1900s.
• 📌 Flower aims to bring attention to these often-overlooked composers and their works, countering the statistic that only 5% of orchestral music played today is written by women.

The Value of Classical Music

• 🎻 Flower emphasizes that classical music is a timeless art form that holds immense value.
• 💡 She believes that by combining classical music with genres and artists that young people already revere, it can help change the narrative and make learning an instrument more exciting.
• ✨ Her goal is to make the music of female composers a new norm in concert halls and holiday programming.