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Composer’s Studio

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.  Join hosts Tarik Ghiradella and Anna Linvill for conversations with living composers and musicians about music, life, and what’s happening in the genre defying world of contemporary composition today.  Spanning the globe, but with special emphasis on the local NC scene, this is a classical music show like none you have ever heard. Follow us on Facebook to join the conversation and find out about upcoming guests and performances.

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Composer’s Studio Archives

Composer’s Studio – 5/17/20 – Brent Michael Davids

In this powerful episode, Tarik and Amy discuss music and American history with Brent Michael Davids, composer and co-director of the Lenape Center in Manhattan. An American Indian citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation, his heritage is a major influence on his work. Brent experiments with traditional Native American singing and instruments, […]

Composer’s Studio – 5/10/20 – Marianna Filippi rerun

Marianna Filippi, a bright young composer from Maine, is at her core, a storyteller. Composing for theater and film as well as chamber groups and solo artists, Marianna’s music is proving popular with performers and audiences alike. Beginnning with improvisation to form her initial melodic and harmonic material, she lets her work evolve organically, like […]

Composer’s Studio – 5/3/20 – Lucía Caruso

Award winning virtuoso pianist and composer Lucia Caruso’s musical journey has taken her across four continents, and through over a dozen countries with performances in such renown landmarks as the Versailles Palace, the Louvre Museum, and Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, France. She has graced the stages of Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie […]

Composer’s Studio – 4/26/20 – Dr. Pedro H. da Silva

Dr. Pedro Henriques da Silva is a Portuguese composer, multi-instrumentalist, professor, and lecturer in various fields of music, arts, and sciences; whose numerous awards include the 2015 and 2016 American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Plus Award, the 2017 International Portuguese Music Award for Best Instrumental Performance, and the Best Emerging Filmmaker Documentary Award […]

Composer’s Studio – 4/19/20 – Daniel Thomas Davis

Composer Daniel Thomas Davis’ wide range of musical activities has taken him from the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Royal Opera House to monasteries in the Horn of Africa to directing new-music festivals in the rural South. In the past year, he has enjoyed the premieres of two new operas – SIX. TWENTY. OUTRAGEOUS, […]

Composer’s Studio – 4/12/20 – Mark Engebretson Covid-19 Rerun

Mark Engebretson is Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the recipient of a Barlow Commission (for Bent Frequency), North Carolina Artist Fellowship in Composition (for the Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra), a Fulbright Fellowship for studies in France, and has received major commissions from […]

Composer’s Studio – 4/5/20 – Steven Bryant Covid-19 Rerun

While we are learning to record and broadcast from home during the Covid-19 lockdown, please enjoy this rerun of our conversation with composer Steven Bryant. With music chiseled in its structure and intent, fusing lyricism, dissonance, silence, technology, and humor into lean, skillfully-crafted works, Steven’s music enthralls listeners and performers alike. His seminal work Ecstatic […]

Composer’s Studio – 3/29/20 -Marianna Filippi

Marianna Filippi, a bright young composer from Maine, is at her core, a storyteller. Composing for theater and film as well as chamber groups and solo artists, Marianna’s music is proving popular with performers and audiences alike. Beginnning with improvisation to form her initial melodic and harmonic material, she lets her work evolve organically, like […]