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PODCAST

Composer Chats

Jason K. Nitsch

Composer Chat is a podcast where we talk a little bit about music, a little bit about life, and a whole lot about whatever we feel like at the moment! Each episode I am joined by a special guest composer and we will chat about their pathway towards success in their musical career!

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1.29 - Mark Adler

Composer Chats ·

2024/05/28

Mark Adler brings to his work as a composer a broad background in both film and music.At age 16 he created an award-winning animated short which the New York Museum of Modern Art acquired for its permanent archive collection. A year later, he was the recipient of an American Film Institute grant for his original screenplay. He studied piano privately for fifteen years, and was initially a music major. His return to music followed graduation from film school at UCLA, where he studied film scoring

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1.28 - The Octopus Project

Composer Chats ·

2024/05/21

The Octopus Project has been releasing joyous party music since 2002, following a musical path that veers through blown-out rock’n’roll, vibrant electronics, surreal pop and expansive psych landscapes. Based in Austin, TX, the group of multi-instrumentalists has released six studio albums, starting with 2002’s Identification Parade. Touring venues and festivals worldwide (Lollapalooza, Coachella, All Tomorrow's Parties) both on their own and as handpicked support for artists as diverse

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1.27 - Dominik Scherrer

Composer Chats ·

2024/05/14

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Dominik Scherrer to the Podcast!Dominik first won the prestigious British Ivor Novello Award and received a Royal Television Society (RTS) nomination for his riveting score on Ripper Street. He earned two additional Ivor Novello nominations for Amazon’s The Collection and the British crime series Agatha Christie’s Marple.Dominik recently reunited with the Williams brothers to score Amazon’s thriller series The Widow, starring Kate Beckinsale. He also scored the

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1.26 - Jeff Toyne

Composer Chats ·

2024/05/07

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Jeff Toyne to the podcast!https://jefftoyne.com

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1.25 - Marie Antoinette Douglas

Composer Chats ·

2024/04/23

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Marie Antoinette Douglas to the show!Atlanta bred composer Marie A. Douglas mixes and layers genres and textures as a means to inject unprecedented relate-ability and excitement into pieces intended for concert stages. Her compositional choices portray her varied experiences creating a product that is highly artistic, gorgeous yet gritty, robust with innovation and familiarity. Marie’s compositions and arrangements have been performed throughout the United States

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1.24 - Ryan George

Composer Chats ·

2024/04/16

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Ryan George to the podcast!RYAN GEORGE currently resides in Austin, Texas where he is active as an arranger and composer. His work, ranging from music for the concert stage to music for marching ensembles is performed regularly throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.Ryan completed his first work for concert band in 2007 and since then his works have received performances at the American Bandmasters Association Convention, the MidWest Band and

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1.23 - Quincy Hilliard

Composer Chats ·

2024/04/09

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Quincy Hilliard to the podcast!Quincy C. Hilliard’scompositions for wind band are published by several major music publishers, and are performed throughout the world where there are wind bands of British-American instrumentation. His stature as an outstanding composer is apparent as conductors frequently commission him for new compositions.Dr. Hilliard has been a recipient several times of the distinguished American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers

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1.22 - Steve Danyew

Composer Chats ·

2024/04/02

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Steve Danyew to the podcast!www.stevedanyew.comteve Danyew’s music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent.Danyew (b. 1983) is the recipient of numerous national and international awards for his work, and his compositions have been performed throughout the world in venues such as

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1.21 - Nicole Piunno

Composer Chats ·

2024/03/26

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Nicole Piano to the podcast this week! Nicole Piunno (b. 1985) is a composer who views music as a vehicle for seeing and experiencing the realities of life. Her music often reflects the paradoxes in life and how these seeming opposites are connected as they often weave together. Her harmonic language and use of counterpoint mirrors the complexity of our world by acknowledging light and dark, past and present, beauty and brokenness, confinement and freedom, chaos

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1.20 - Dara Taylor

Composer Chats ·

2024/03/19

Join Jason this week as he welcomes composer Dara Taylor to the show!Dara Tayloris anAmericancomposer for film and television scores. An HMMA-nominated composer, she has composed music for a number of Independent films including thrillers, dramas, and comedies. She has contributed additional music to ABC'sAgent Carter,Galavantand Lifetime’sChild Geniusas well as arrangements and score production for studio productions likeBad Moms,Baywatch,Smurfs The Lost Village,Sausage Party, and more. In 2015,

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1.19 - David Biedenbender

Composer Chats ·

2024/03/12

Join Jason as he welcomes composer David Biedenbender to the podcast!David Biedenbender (b. 1984, Waukesha, Wisconsin) is a composer, conductor, performer, educator, and interdisciplinary collaborator.David’smusic has been described as “simply beautiful” (twincities.com), “striking” and “brilliantly crafted” (Times Argus) and is noted for its “rhythmic intensity” (NewMusicBox) and “stirring harmonies.” (Boston Classical Review) “Modern, venturesome, and inexorable…The excitement, intensity, and

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1.16 - Gordon Goodwin

Composer Chats ·

2024/02/20

Join Jason as he welcomes THE Gordon Goodwin to the podcast! Even for a successful composer and arranger in Hollywood, Gordon Goodwin’s numbers are impressive: A 2006 GRAMMY Award for his Instrumental Arrangement of “Incredits” from the Pixar film The Incredibles, three Emmy Awards, and thirteen GRAMMY nominations.Here’s another impressive number to add to the list: eighteen. As in the number of musicians in Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, one of the most exciting large jazz ensembles on the planet

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1.15 - Daniel Montoya Jr.

Composer Chats ·

2024/02/13

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Daniel Montoya Jr. to the podcast!Daniel Montoya Jr.is a proud and rare native of Austin, an ’80s, ’90s, & ’00s music aficionado, and fully embraces his unstoppable rise to “zaddy” status. He also, occasionally, writes music (since being musically moved by his first viewing of the James Cameron filmTitanicand wanting to write the music to the sequel,Titanic 2: Jack of Spades: Jack Dawson’s Revenge: This Time It’s Personal). His oeuvre spans several genres,

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1.14 - Alexandra Gardner

Composer Chats ·

2024/02/06

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Alexandra Gardner to the podcast! Praised as “highly lyrical and provocative of thought” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “mesmerizing” (The New York Times), the music of composer Alexandra Gardner is thrilling audiences and performers alike with a “particular alchemy of craft, whimsy, and sensual appeal” (The New Yorker). She composes for varied instrumentations and often mixes acoustic instruments with electronic music and field recordings, drawing inspiration

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1.13 - Rossano Galante

Composer Chats ·

2024/01/30

Join Jason this week as he welcomes composer Rossano Galante! Born in Buffalo, New York, Rossano Galante received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Trumpet Performance from SUNY Buffalo in 1992. That same year he was one of nineteen people from around the world to be accepted to the University of Southern California’s Film Scoring Program. He studied with the late Jerry Goldsmith, who won an Academy Award for his film score for The Omen. In 1999, Mr. Galante moved to California to pursue a career in

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1.12 - Robbie Teehan

Composer Chats ·

2024/01/23

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Robbie Teehan to the podcast!www.robbieteehan.comRobbie (Rob) Teehan is a JUNO-award nominated Canadian composer, known for his nuanced and melodic scores to film, TV, and video games, and broad musical experience. He scored the critically-acclaimed Canadian film SCARBOROUGH, hailed by NOW Magazine as “A New Canadian Cinema”, and winner of 8 Canadian Screen Awards including “Best Motion Picture”; BELOW THE BELT, which recently premiered in New York City with

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1.11 - Erika Svanoe

Composer Chats ·

2024/01/16

Join Jason this week as he welcomes composer Erika Svanoe to the podcast!Dr. Erika Svanoe(b. 1976)is a conductor and composer for wind band,known for her lyrical melodies, nods to classic literature, musical deconstruction, humor, and pastiche. Her works have been performed by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, the United States Navy Band, the National Concert Band of America, featured at the Midwest Clinic, the American Bandmasters Association National Conference, and the Boston New

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1.10 - Adam Gorb

Composer Chats ·

2024/01/09

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Adam Gorb to the show!Adam Gorbwas born in 1958 and started composing at the age of ten. At fifteen he wrote a set of piano pieces –A Pianist’s Alphabet– of which a selection was performed by Susan Bradshaw on BBC Radio 3. In 1977 he went to Cambridge University to study music, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Robin Holloway. After graduating in 1980 he divided his time between composition and working as a musician in the theatre. In 1987 he started

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1.9 - Johan de Meij

Composer Chats ·

2023/12/19

Join Jason as he welcomes Dutch composer and conductor Johan de Meij to the podcast!Dutch composer and conductor Johan de Meij (Voorburg, 1953) received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, where he studied trombone and conducting. His award-winning oeuvre of original compositions, symphonic transcriptions and film score arrangements has garnered him international acclaim and have become permanent fixtures in the repertoire of renowned ensembles throughout the world

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1.8 - Laura Strickling

Composer Chats ·

2023/12/12

Join Jason as he welcomes world renown, Grammy nominated soprano, Laura Strickling!Two-time GRAMMY® award nominee for Best Classical Vocal Solo Album forConfessions(2022) and40@40(2024) – Laura Strickling’s recordings make, “a strong statement about the status of contemporary art songs and her commitment to them,” (Schmopera). Recognized by The New York Times for her “flexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence,” she is celebrated for her work performing and promoting art song, with an

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