Composer’s Studio

This week, we are so excited about the upcoming release of Andrea Edith Moore’s debut recording of Daniel Thomas Davis’ haunting and humorous work, Family Secrets: Kith & Kin, that we are doing a whole show about it. Set to texts of seven internationally renowned authors of the New South: Frances Mayes, Daniel Wallace, Allan […]

Much of composer Chiayu Hsu’s music revolves around the poems, myths, and culture she left behind when she emigrated to the US from Taiwan to hone her craft as a composer. She has found great success in the U.S., but her music reflects a divided heart. It is a collage of imagery and mood, telling […]

Beloved Raleigh pianist, pedagogue, and composer Lanette Lind did not set out to be a composer, but somehow one commission led to another, then another, and another. A masterful pianist, competent in many styles, Lanette does not subscribe to any one compositional technique or school–except one. The music must serve the story. Whether writing for […]

Founding member of the New York based ensemble, Rhymes With Opera, composer George Tsz-Kwan Lam was born in Hong Kong, brought up in Massachusetts, and studied in some of the finest composition programs in North America. George’s music is all about exploring and documenting the musical aspects of place, whether in a tobacco factory turned […]

Join Tarik and Anna for a great conversation with composer, Juan Pablo Contreras, a Latin GRAMMY®-nominated composer from Guadalajara, Mexico. In his music, Juan Pablo explores his joyful but complicated relationships with history, place, and his love for both Western classical and Mexican folk music, resulting in a musical journey full of joy, humor, and […]

Innovative North Carolina-based composer, artist, and educator, Brittany J. Green’s work explores new ways of looking at the relationships between audience and composer, sound and movement, form and function. Join Anna and Tarik for a generative discussion of computer programming in composition, music as metaphor, the productive dichotomy between tradition and disruptive new ideas, and […]

“In times of crisis and peril, we have but the reliance of faith – from the profound faith in humanity, faith in love, and faith that we will persevere and get through this with dignity” -Composer Vivian Fung JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer Vivian Fung is known for the theoretical complexity and virtuosity required to play […]

At just 19 years old, Grammy award winning Iranian American composer Richard Danielpour had a mystical experience that left him awed and shaken, but with new clarity in his faith and life’s purpose as a composer. His powerful and deeply spiritual music made him one of the most beloved and recorded composers of his generation. […]