Composer’s Studio

Taking a break! See you in the New Year!

Anna and Tarik explore some of their favorite holiday music written by living composers. Happy Holidays!

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, Anthony is co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of Castle of our Skins, a concert and educational […]

Help us congratulate composer Richard Danielpour on his Grammy nomination for the Passion of Yeshua. Please join us in a replay of our conversation with the composer, on the writing of this piece.

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 question and more with award winning composer Douglas Knehans. Douglas is perhaps best known for his large works […]

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. Composer David Serkin Ludwig does his namesake proud. Once named by NPR Music as one of the world’s “Top 100 Composers Under Forty,”  David’s choral […]

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 legacies of everything from the intimidating dominance of Beethoven’s place in the canon, to the confusing […]

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 the Immeasurable Distance where those we have loved and lost reside.