Iris Brooks specializes in contemporary and world flute music and has performed in Egypt, Iceland, Japan, Canada, Bali, and throughout Europe. Her articles on new music have been published in a variety of journals and she served as the editor of EAR Magazine
"New Music Across America conveys the spirit of innovative American music in the 1990's and the unique role played by the NMA festivals, better than any other single volume I know. It is, like its subject, more than slightly schizophrenic - by turns breezy, serious, irreverent, scholarly, eclectic, perceptive, whimsical, and subversive. Anyone interested in the creative arts of the late twentieth century will want to read it." Elliot Schwartz Professor of Music, Bowdoin College, Co-author, Music Since 1945: Issues, Materials, Literature