Composer’s Studio

03/03/2024

The Composer's Studio Podcast

In this episode of the Composer's Studio we explore the music of Sarah Kirkland Snider, her unique musical style, her inspirations, and the stories behind her compositions. From ethereal orchestrations to poignant vocal melodies, Snider's music transcends boundaries and touches the depths of the human experience. Tune in as we uncover the essence of her artistry and the intricacies of her creative process. Whether you're a seasoned music aficionado or just discovering Snider's work, this episode promises to be a journey through the harmonies of the soul.

https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/7d7b695d/sarah-kirkland-snider-harmonies-of-the-soul

03/02/2024

Congratulations to our friends - Composers Tarik Ghiradella, Shanan Estreicher and soprano Andrea Edith Moore, on this beautiful new recording.

Composers Concordance Records is delighted to share our latest release “Searching the Heart” from soprano Andrea Edith Moore, Soprano.

This selection of songs and cycles from four of her contemporaries, composers Shanan Estreicher, Stacy Garrop, Tony Solitro, and Tarik Ghiradella, convey the emotional warmth and dynamism of her voice and the sensitivity and precision of Robert Brewer’s exquisite piano accompaniment. The songs range from grieving and wailing to prayerful resolve and twinkling wonder, proving this genre maintains the range and the power to move contemporary ears.

Stream and download here.

Listen to "Searching the Heart" by Andrea Edith Moore, Robert Brewer on any music platform - Free smart music links by Songwhip

02/13/2024

🎶 Exciting News! 🎶

I am thrilled to announce the Pre-Save of "Searching the Heart." This beautiful collection of art songs is performed by the incredibly talented soprano, Andrea Edith Moore. The album features breathtaking songs by composers, Tarik Ghiradella, Shanan Estreicher , Tony Solitro and Stacy Garrop.

"Searching the Heart" is a heartfelt and soul-stirring journey through some of the most captivating and emotive art songs. Andrea's exquisite vocals, combined with the hauntingly beautiful melodies, will transport you.

The songs range from grieving and wailing to prayerful resolve and twinkling wonder, proving this genre maintains the range and the power to move all listeners.

I am incredibly proud of this record and can't wait for you to experience the magic of "Searching the Heart." You can now.

https://lnk.fuga.com/andreaedithmoorerobertbrewer_searchingtheheart

Andrea Edith Moore: Soprano
Robert Brewer: Piano
Recorded and mixed by Rick Nelson at Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, NC
Produced by Shanan Estreicher and Tarik Ghiradella

01/30/2024

Composer's Jeffery Scott and Peter Askim discuss the upcoming performances of their new works.
'Anatomy of an Embrace' (World Premiere) by Peter Askim and 'Pesadelos 1' and 'Songs' by Jeffery Scott

The performance by Mallarme Music is on Friday, February 2, 2024, 7:30 p.m. at the PSI Theatre, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC.

If you are in the area, please join us.

https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/77ff68e6/double-vision-peter-askim-and-jeffery-scott

08/12/2023

Mara Keen's music entry into the Score The World contest. An excerpt from the gripping Lazlo Nemes movie, Son of Saul.

My submission for the Score the World Contest 2021This is a part from the movie Son of Saul. The soundtrack is produced by a contestant of Score The World Fi...

08/12/2023

Mara Keen on the Composer's Studio

Film Composer Mara Keen joins me for an in depth conversation about her music and her experience writing music for T.V. and film.

Mara Keen's talents shine through in her music, particularly when it comes to capturing the essence of time and motion. Her compositions are uniquely attuned to the emotions depicted on screen, seamlessly blending with the language of film.Son of ...

06/02/2023

I was lucky enough to have met her years ago. A truly remarkable composer has died.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179884147/kaija-saariaho-the-composer-who-explored-color-and-light-has-died-at-age-70

04/09/2023

Join me on this episode of the Composer's Studio with my guest Thomas Little. — with Thomas Little.

From algorithms to Youtube, Thomas Little bridges the intuition of a composer with the heart of a teacher. With a deep understanding of music and music history, Little is not only a prolific composer but also an influential educator who shares his...

10/04/2022

June 2–4, 2023, Opera Parallèle presents ! Adapted from Stephen King’s iconic novel, from the Pulitzer-and GRAMMY®-winning team of Paul Moravec, Composer and Mark Campbell, Librettist bring “The Shining” to even more frightening depths than ever before! Learn more at operaparallele.org/theshining

A co-production by Opera Parallèle, Hawaii Opera Theatre, and Portland Opera

Alina Bokovikova Jaymes Kirksey Nicole Paiement David Murakami Nathan Granner Kearstin Piper Brown, Soprano Aubrey Allicock David Walton, tenor Timothy Murray, Baritone Christabel Nunoo Kevin Gino Wilford Kelly, Bass-Baritone, Edward Parks

09/30/2022

Help me congratulate composer Rain Worthington.
Rain was a featured guest on the Composer's Studio.

https://www.composersstudio.net/

Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of AmericaResolves · Carmine MirandaPassages Through Time: The Music of Rain Worthington℗ 2022 NavonaReleased on: 2022-03-11Arti...

06/29/2022

Congratulations to composer Annie Nikunen

The time has come!!

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of The ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Awards!

Check out the press release for the full list of winners & honorable mentions!

https://www.ascap.com/press/2022/06/06-28-morton-gould-winners

03/14/2022

We are thrilled to be able to share a brilliant new recording from composer Rain Worthington, a recent guest on the Composer's Studio.

PASSAGES THROUGH TIME
THE MUSIC OF RAIN WORTHINGTON
Rain Worthington composer

https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6398/?utm_source=Radio%2C+Blogs+%26+Journalists&utm_campaign=939059de4b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_11_03_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1cb6a5a845-939059de4b-610563965

In PASSAGES THROUGH TIME, composer Rain Worthington explores the mystery of instrumental music’s ability to communicate the universality of human experiences.

03/05/2022

Composed by our most recent guest on the Composer's Studio, Paul Moravec. Get your tickets

Get tickets now for the World Stage Premiere at North Carolina Opera.

03/03/2022

Sanctuary Road - a new opera, performances this weekend at the North Carolina Opera. Composed by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and guests on the composer's studio, Paul Moravec.

Harriet Tubman may be the best-known conductor of the Underground Railroad, but a new Opera highlights another key figure: William Still, who helped nearly 800 enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the years before the Civil War.

Video - https://vimeo.com/571776753

Friday, March 4, 2022 at 7:30 PMSaturday, March 5, 2022 at 7:30 PMSunday, March 6, 2022 at 2:00 PMFletcher Opera Theater, Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts SANCTUARY ROAD is generously underwritten by Florence and James Peacock.Additional support is provided by the National Endowment for th...

02/27/2022

Pulitzer Prize winning Composer Paul Moravec on this episode of the Composer's Studio.

Listen at:
www.composersstudio.net or shorturl.at/bxF27 or wherever you get your podcasts.

02/18/2022

A wonderful article that highlights the new release from composer and former guest of the Composer's Studio, Douglas Knehans.

Our series, “We are the night” presents artists, promoters, production managers, label owners and others who are bringing the music world of the Czech Republic, from the past to the present and the present to the future. This week we review the album “Cloud Ossuary”, composed by Douglas Kneh...

02/08/2022

George Crumb. The musical mark you left changed music forever. Your presence will be missed. RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb

George Henry Crumb[1][2] or George Henry Jr. Crumb[3] (October 24, 1929 - February 6, 2022) is an American composer of modern classical and avant-garde music.[4] He is known as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques, which obtain...

01/13/2022

Douglas Boyce on the Composer's Studio Podcast

Please join us on the Composer's Studio for a fun and deep dive into the life and music of the composer; his fascination with language and mythos; his blending of Medieval, Renaissance and modernist aesthetic.

Listen at www.composersstudio.net or wherever you get your podcasts.

11/10/2021

The Composer's Studio is back.

Award winning Composer Christopher Dietz is a stargazer, his compositions moving through the darkness of spacetime in whirling constellations of sound. With instruments standing in for celestial bodies, Dietz engages in a philosophical contemplation of dualities and opposition, changing seasons, beginnings and endings.

https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/4ac9827d/christopher-dietz-my-manifesto

05/28/2021

Composer Rain Worthington, this Sunday on the Composer's Studio.

Magical Realism, Reflective, Musical Angels...
These are some of things that come to mind when listening to Worthington's Music.

Join us this Sunday, May 30th as we dive into the deep currents of Worthington's musical stream, her muse and the emotional force that drives the still-motion of her creativity.

Sunday, May 30th at www.composersstudio.net or wherever you get your podcasts.

05/14/2021

Join us on Sunday, May 16th with our guest composer Shanan Estreicher.

With the passion of a New Yorker and the heart of teacher, Shanan's music speaks to the muse of our souls. Holding true to his love of popular and theater music, his approach to the classical realm is sincere and lovely.

Please join us this Sunday at www.composersstudio.net or wherever you get your podcasts. In the mean time, take a look at the documentary film made about Shanan, his students and the voice they lift up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vFbze8naIc&list=PLTNR1l-SwrEGyL1DRddzsopCBpng-MEGV

Rise Up and Sing—The Movie documents the journey from classroom to recording studio for the middle school chorus students of New York's PS 127. Singing a son...

05/07/2021

Please join me in congratulating a previous 2020 guest from the Composer's Studio on his new appointment as Dean and Director of the Music Division at the Juilliard School.

Alumnus David Ludwig is named dean and director of Juilliard’s Music Division

04/30/2021

From legendary educator at the Juilliard School to Professor of Composition and Music Theory at Vanderbilt University, Composer Samuel Zyman is one of the leading Mexican composers on the international scene today. Known for his use of vigorous rhythmic energy and expressive lyricism, Dr. Zyman infuses the many styles that define his heritage.

He has written for Yo-Yo Ma, the critically acclaimed movie 'The Other Conquest,' The Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields, just to name a few.

Join us this Sunday on the Composer’s Studio Podcast as we explore Zyman’s music, his world perspective, the magic of legendary Mexican Cities and of ones invention of feminine perfection.

Sunday, May 2nd at www.composersstudio.net or wherever you get your podcasts.

03/14/2021

Public
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From big ideas to tiny details, join us this week on the Composer's Studio as we embark on a thought provoking discussion about music, life and how harmony relates to the corner of a room. From rock guitar to pencil and manuscript, from the Aaron Copland School of Music to the City University of New York, Edward Smaldone does everything with passion and commitment.

Listen to the podcast now:
https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/47f22bbb/edward-smaldone-the-architecture-of-music

03/13/2021

This week on the Composer's Studio, composer Edward Smaldone.

From big ideas to tiny details, join us this week on the Composer's Studio as we embark on a thought provoking discussion about music, life and how harmony relates to the corner of a room.

Listen on Sunday, March 14th at 4:00 p.m. at www.whupfm.org & www.composersstudio.net or wherever you get your podcasts.

03/13/2021

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03/07/2021

Tarik Ghiradella on the Composer's Studio.

A master of what might be called minimalist maximalism, Ghiradella’s music undergoes astounding transformations from just a few tones-- mere molecules of sound into a dark, misty malediction or the hope of eternal life in another world.

Listen now.

https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/49bd5cc9/tarik-ghiradella-molecules-of-sound

Join hosts Anna Linvill, and Tarik Ghiradella for conversations with contemporary composers about music, life, and what’s happening in the genre defying world of classical music today.

03/06/2021

Minimalist Maximalism

Join us this week Sunday, March 7th
On this special episode of Composer’s Studio, join Anna and guest host Shanan Estreicher for a fascinating dive into the music of our own Tarik Ghiradella. A master of what might be called minimalist maximalism, Ghiradella’s music undergoes astounding transformations from just a few tones-- mere molecules of sound, into a dark, misty malediction, the hope of eternal life in another world, or even the love of a mother for her child. His music has been featured on the American Heroes Channel T.V. series Gunslingers and has composed for The American String Quartet, The Astoria Symphony, The Greensboro philharmonia and the Round rock symphony. As a drummer, he has toured Europe and North America and continues his work as a session drummer recording from his home studio. We are very lucky and proud to call him a collaborator and a friend.

Sunday, March 7th
At 4 pm www.whupfm.org
Or podcast at www.composersstudio.net or wherever you get your podcasts.

02/28/2021

Listen now at: https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/48a416e0/angelica-negron-the-sounds-that-make-music

Puerto Rican-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón’s music is deeply personal, reflecting a sensitive, playful nature that takes nothing for granted. Even the most mundane sounds--a stapler, a calculator, crumpling paper, pots and pans become beautiful in her sound sculptor’s able hands. Her music has been described as “wistfully idiosyncratic and contemplative,” while The New York Times noted her “capacity to surprise.” Negrón has been commissioned by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, loadbang, MATA Festival, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Sō Percussion, the American Composers Orchestra and the New York Botanical Garden, among others. We hope you enjoy her music as much as we did this week.

02/21/2021

Composer, performer, conductor, and educator Aaron Noë is a musical hero, for he writes music not only for himself or for professional performers, but for students just beginning their musical explorations. So many composers we have spoken with on this show had their first experience with music in a school band or choral program. In this episode of Composer’s Studio, Tarik and Anna celebrate the music of a composer who has dedicated his life and work to paving the way for others.

Listen now.

https://www.composersstudio.net/podcast/episode/4c119d08/aaron-noe-paving-the-way-for-others

Join hosts Anna Linvill, and Tarik Ghiradella for conversations with contemporary composers about music, life, and what’s happening in the genre defying world of classical music today.