ruth cunningham

is a classically trained musician, a sound healing practitioner, and a founding member Anonymous 4. She combines these skills to improvise music that connects people to the healing and spiritual power of music. She specializes in early musc performance as well as improvisational sacred music from varied spiritual traditions in both liturgical and concert settings.

With Anonymous 4, Ruth performed in concerts and festivals throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East and made thirteen recordings including David Lang’s Love Fail and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light.  Ruth’s  own CD releases are Light and Shadow: Chants, Prayers and Improvisations and Harpmodes: Journey for Voice and Harp. She has released two CDs of multi faith chants with colleague Ana Hernandez: Blessed by Light and  HARC: Inside Chants. She has also performed and recorded renaissance music with Pomerium and is a regular member of the choir of St Ignatius of Antioch in New York City. Each July she is a member of the faculty for Wisdom University’s New Chartres Academy. 

Ruth received a B. Mus. in Performance of Early Music from the New England Conservatory of Music and taught recorder and renaissance flute at the Amherst Early Music Workshops for sixteen years. She is certified as a cross cultural music healing practitioner (CCMHP) by the Open Ear Center where she studied with Pat Moffitt Cook. She has also studied vocal improvisation with Rhiannon.

For more information: www.ruthcunningham.com