Montclair Magazine Spring 2023 | Page 19

( �OP ) COUR�ES� OF �A�I� AN�RA�O� ( A�O�E ) COUR�ES� OF �ANIEL LO�A�A perform and create the music . She began posting her compositions on her artist page on My Space , and soon Nathalie Joachim , aflutist , singer and composer who lived afew blocks away from Loggins-�ull inCrown �eights , reached out . They had dinner together and hit it off . “ It ’ skind of crazy that we met at that time ,” she says .“ We had so much in common . We decided to work together that day , 15 years ago .”
Since then , the duo , under the name Flutronics , has released two studio albums ( Flutronix and 2.0 ), alive album ( ���e �ro� �he ����c�� The��re ) and an extended-play album ( ���� o� �re��h ). Loggins-�ull also co-produced Joachim ’ s�rammy-nominated album , ���� d������ .
Joining forces with Joachim cemented Loggins-�ull ’ snew path , what she calls “ DIY music — building , creating and doing myown thing .” She got her master ’ sdegree in composition from NY� in 2010 and started touring and producing her own concert series . When musicians started asking for it , she began self-publishing her sheet music .
�er first composing commission came in 201� from cellist Amanda �ookin , followed the next year by a request from the Metropolitan Museum of Art , where she was artist in residence , to create apiece for star soprano Julia Bullock , a “ stunning musician and artist who is still performing that piece today ,” Loggins-�ull says .
Not surprisingly , Loggins-�ull is creatively redefining the terms of the prestigious Cleveland Orchestra composer ’ sresidency . On visits there over the next three years , she ’ ll embed herself in the community and schools . The musical projects she ’ s planned — a chamber music program , an expansion of her composition , “ Can YouSee� ”, and her final year ’ soriginal composition — will be informed byher time working with community partners such as Fatima Family Center in the historically Black neighborhood near the concert hall . “ I don ’ t know any orchestra that has done anything quite like this before ,” she says .
Loggins-�ull ’ sever-blossoming career has made it trickier for her and her husband , aproperty manager in Manhattan , to plan their family . After son Jonathan was born in 2009 while
A�TIST AN� TEA��E� ( �op ) Loggins-�ull performs with Flutroni� at Merkin Concert �all in New �ork City� ( above ) teaching amaster class in Cleveland .
she was getting her master ’ sdegree and launching her composing career , she knew that having another child right away wouldn ’ t work . Peyton , born in 2015 , was “ planned to aT ,” she says .
It was while they were contemplating their second child that the couple started considering moving out of Brooklyn . “ For the longest time Ididn ’ t think it would work for my music ,” says Loggins-�ull . “ I was afraid if Ileft , people would forget Iexist and stop calling .” But her increasingly heavy travel schedule made her physical location less important . And the idea of paying for private school for two “ almost made me break out in hives ,” she says . It took two years and “ lots of spreadsheets ” before they settled on Montclair , where they moved in 201� . “ It boiled down to diversity ,” she says . “ I felt like Icould be an artist and creative in this town and people wouldn ’ tlook at me weird .”
Now , Loggins-�ull isturning her garage on Alexander Avenue into a studio and diving into her next projects . “ This all has grown into something I didn ’ t anticipate ever happening ,” she says with alaugh . “ Now I ’ m writing for the Cleveland Orchestra , all because of my quarter-life crisis .” ■
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