Drew Corey is composer, performer and conductor who creates clean, minimalist works while maintaining a sense of warmth. She creates this “warm minimalism” using her signature cellular writing, aleatoric structures, floating melodies and large harmonic textures. Her practice focuses on human connectivity and the visceral nature of certain physical and sonic stimuli. She creates works for choir and solo performance, as well as interdisciplinary works for improvised movement and dance.
Drew is an active artist in the Los Angeles area. In early 2016, Drew co-founded C3LA: The Contemporary Choral Collective of Los Angeles, a collectively run ensemble performing new choral music and providing a venue for multi-talented singer-composers/singer-conductors to collaborate. She composes, conducts and sings with the ensemble, as well as serving on their board of directors. She is the artistic director of the San Gabriel Valley Choral Company, where she connects singers and audiences through diverse programming and quality performances, as well as mentors new conductors through the Alexander Ruggieri conducting fellowship. Her ambient duo “Other People,” with collaborator Justin Scheid, explores the marriage between processed vocal layers and live synth manipulation. Most recently, Drew has joined the Cantilever Collective and creates music for their dance classes “Soup of the Day” and “Movement Playground”. She also continues her ongoing performance series called Funerals, performative rituals of burying trauma, relationships or anything that needs to be let go with the aim to create a cathartic experience for both performer and audience.
She received her degree in Composition from the California Institute of the Arts.