Composer's Studio
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. The Composer’s Studio is a place where living art is made, a place without boundaries where inspiration can come from anywhere from birdsong to heavy metal, Vivaldi to the hum of a vacuum cleaner. Classical composers today are no longer confined to the concert stage or the cathedral but contribute to film scores, television commercials, video game soundtracks and beyond. From graduate students to Grammy winners, this is a classical music show like none you have ever heard. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to join the conversation and find out about upcoming guests and performances.
Episodes
53 episodes
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Harmonies of the Soul
In this episode, we explore Snider's 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 hu...
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Season 2024
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Episode 2
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1:03:14
Double Vision: Peter Askim and Jeffery Scott
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 will be perfomed by Mallarme Mu...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1
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33:41
Mara Keen - The Essence of Emotion
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....
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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43:48
Thomas Little: A Complex Intuition
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 shar...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:13:39
Annie Nikunen - Embodied Music
Composer, flutist, choreographer, sound artist, and radio broadcaster Annie Nikunen's music is an embodiment of her humanity. Join Tarik and Anna for an exploration of the physicality of sound with this lovely, creative spirit.
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:12:57
Paul Moravec - From the Underground to Freedom, to the Overlook and the Tempest.
From the kind-natured city of Buffalo, NY to the vibrant energy of Long Island; from being the Head Chorister in the Choir of Men and Boys at St. Pauls Cathedral to being the 2004 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Music has always been ...
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1:13:37
Douglas Boyce - The Speed of Time
With a fascination with language and mythos, Douglas Boyce composes music that draws on Medieval and Renaissance traditions but sits firmly within a modernist aesthetic. Building rich rhythmic structures that shift between order, fragmentati...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:36:53
Christopher Dietz “My Manifesto”
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 conte...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:29:55
Rain Worthington - Tapping into the pre-verbal Language
It's very mysterious how it works, this pre-verbal language that we all recognize and comprehend. It's not simplistic or concrete yet somehow it channels and resonates its way through our minds and into our souls. It is with this vision and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:31:06
Shanan Estreicher - A Composer with the Heart of a Teacher
Shanan Estreicher is a man of many accomplishments, and he has done so, not for himself but for others. There is a Hebrew phrase "Torah Lishmah." Loosely translated, it means - a raging thirst for knowledge. But, in Shanan'...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:14:37
Samuel Zyman - Musical Adventures of Noble Invention
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 vi...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:16:59
Edward Smaldone - The Architecture of Music
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, fro...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:22:04
Tarik Ghiradella - Molecules of Sound
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:06:32
Angelica Negron - The Sounds of 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, p...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:24:18
Aaron Noë - Paving the Way for Others
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 w...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:05:11
Jenny Olivia Johnson - Don't Look Back
Composer and sound artist Jenny Olivia Johnson’s work is a musical memoir, her multi-sensory synesthesia coloring everything she does. Her compositions and artwork range from electroacoustic chamber songs and contemplative solo works t...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:23:02
Anthony Constantino - The Futility of Music
Composer Anthony Constantino wonders, where do I fit in the larger picture? Why does the world need another quartet, another chamber work when so much great work has already been composed? The World already has Beethoven and Stravinsky, Bart...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:05:38
Peter Askim- What's next?
Composer Peter Askim does it all. Active as a performing bassist, Conductor of the Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, Director of Orchestral Studies at North Carolina State University, he is also founder and Artistic Director of T...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:08:47
Composer's Studio Holiday Show
Anna and Tarik close out the Composer's Studio first season with a holiday special of Sacred Choral works.
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:00:20
Anthony R Green - Celebrating Black Artistry through Music
Join Tarik and Anna for a deep conversation with Anthony R. Green, American composer, pianist, and social justice artist, whose solo and collaborative work have been presented in over 25 countries. A passionate activist as well as a composer...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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1:16:40
Douglas Knehans - Is Emotion in Music Real?
Drifting through falling air and tempests, we find ourselves in a musical world of unfinished introspection. Do you think emotion in music is real? Let’s find out. Join us on the Composer’s Studio as we explore that questio...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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1:15:44
David Serkin Ludwig - The Music of a New Colossus
When one of your earliest memories is of your grandfather playing at Carnegie Hall, it is hard work just to carve out a place for yourself in your own family. Our guest, Composer David Serkin Ludwig does his namesake proud. Once named by NPR...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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1:30:33
David Kirkland Garner - Red Hot Sun
Composer David Kirkland Garner’s music is borne of an obsessive urge to take things apart, separate out the fragments of color, emotion, rhythm, and then reassemble it in a way that reveals new meaning and relevance. Grappling with the legac...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:15:24
Elainie Lillios - The Fascination of Sound
Composer Elainie Lillios creates electroacoustic soundscapes reflecting her fascination with observing and manipulating the qualities of sound itself. Come with Tarik and Anna on a journey to a world of dreams and memory at the edge of...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:02:49
Family Secrets: Daniel Thomas Davis and Andrea Edith Moore
We are so excited about the new release of Andrea Edith Moore's debut recording of Daniel Thomas Davis’ haunting and humorous work, Family Secrets: Kith & Kin. Set to texts of seven internationally renowned authors of the New South: Frances...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:00:26
