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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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All Episodes

58:25

2.39 - Noah Hudson-Camack

Composer Chats ·

2025/10/21

Noah Hudson-Camack (b. 2001) is a composer and arranger native to Cary, North Carolina. Believing firmly in diversity as strength within art, he seeks to blend elements from disparate eras of Western art music, jazz, and popular music in his work. The sewing together of different genre aesthetics is as much an objective in his music as developing strong motivic content, rich harmony, and complex rhythm. He explores these connections in his solo, chamber, jazz, and wind symphony works.Noah premiered

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2.38 - Mara Gibson

Composer Chats ·

2025/10/14

Composer Mara Gibson is originally from Charlottesville, VA, graduated from Bennington College, and completed her Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo. She has received grants and honors from the American Composer’s Forum, the Banff Center, Louisiana Division of the Arts, ArtsKC, Meet the Composer, the Kansas Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International Bass Society, ASCAP, the John Hendrick Memorial Commission, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Yale University

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2.37 - Charles Rochester Young

Composer Chats ·

2025/10/07

Charles Rochester Youngwas appointed as the Director of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2022. At UNC Greensboro he works collaboratively with faculty, staff, students, and leadership to illuminate the lives of listeners and to better support students’ professional aspirations. Prior to his appointment at UNC Greensboro, Young served as the Associate Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Music in Ohio.A

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2.36 - Jessie Cox

Composer Chats ·

2025/09/30

Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University and received his doctorate from Columbia University. Active as a composer, drummer, and scholar, his work thematizes questions at the intersection of black studies, music/sound studies, and critical theory. From Switzerland, with roots in Trinidad and Tobago, Cox thinks through questions of race, migration, national belonging, and our relation to the planet and the cosmos. His first monograph Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness,

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2.35 - Roger Zare

Composer Chats ·

2025/09/23

Dr. Roger Zare is an assistant professor of composition and theory in the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University. He is praised for his “enviable grasp of orchestration” (New York Times), and often composes music inspired by science, nature, mathematics, and mythology. Dr. Zare previously taught at Illinois State University.An award-winning composer, Dr. Zare has had his music performed on six continents and has won multiple accolades, including the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim

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2.34 - Cameron Moody

Composer Chats ·

2025/09/16

Cameron Moody is an American composer, conductor, and trumpeter based in Los Angeles, CA.His distinctive utilization of the symphony orchestra has given way to a varied resume, with projectgenres in film and television ranging from action and documentaries to romance and comedies.Cameroncomposed the score for the Huluoriginal limitedseriesWashington Black. The show, which was created by SelwynSeyfuHinds, led by showrunner Kimberly Ann Harrison, and stars Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Sterling K

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01:02:22

2.33 - Salvador Alan Jacobo

Composer Chats ·

2025/09/09

Born June 6, 1997 (Portales, New Mexico) is an award-winning composer who has composed music for an array of musical settings from wind ensembles to brass ensembles, marching bands, TV Series, and everything in between. His compositions have acquired attention from notable composers such as John Mackey. He accredits his mentors: Benjamin Fairfield, John Mackey, and Mark Dal Porto as being pivotal to his progressive success as a composer, conductor, and performer.Salvador has also been the guest

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01:01:17

2.32 - Minoo Dixon

Composer Chats ·

2025/09/02

Minoo Dixon (b. 1999) is a Korean-American composer who has been recognized by ASCAP and the National Band Association (NBA) and has been on the rise composing meaningful and exciting music meant for a variety of audiences in the Concert Hall. He also has been an enthusiastic supporter for bringing diversity into the Concert Hall. Minoo grew up in Suwanee, Georgia, where he was a passionate member of the music community, which eventually led him to develop his aspirations for becoming a

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01:03:52

2.31 - Giovanni Santos

Composer Chats ·

2025/08/26

Giovanni Santosserves as Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at La Sierra University, where he directs the University Wind Ensemble, Chamber Winds, Big Band, and teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate instrumental music education, popular music, conducting and composition.Dr. Santos has proudly implemented a yearly wind band conducting workshop at La Sierra University and has worked alongside H. Robert Reynolds, Thomas Lee, Larry Livingston, Travis Cross and Allan McMurray,

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01:20:21

2.30 - Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Composer Chats ·

2025/08/19

Composer, author, and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky works in concert music, improvisation, and live performance. His output includes three books, one documentary feature, and numerous musical compositions in film scoring, classical music, popular music, choral music, and other musical genres.https://www.jackcurtisdubowsky.com/index.html

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2.29 - Alex Wurman

Composer Chats ·

2025/08/12

EMMY® Award-winning composer Alex Wurman is known for his versatility and broad musical range. He has collaborated with notable directors across various genres, including Steven Conrad (Ultra City Smiths, Patriot), John August (The Nines), Jill Sprecher (Thirteen Conversations About One Thing), Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights), and Ron Shelton (Play It To The Bone) and more.Wurman composed the majestic, ethereal score for the Oscar®-winning film March of the Penguins, as well as the vastly

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2.28 - Viet Cuong

Composer Chats ·

2025/08/05

Described as “alluring” and “stirring” byThe New York Times, the “arresting” (Gramophone), “irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle), and “exhilarating” (Chicago Tribune) music of Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong (b. 1990) has been commissioned and performed on six continents by musicians and ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,Eighth Blackbird,Kronos Quartet, Sandbox Percussion,Alarm Will Sound, Sō Percussion,PRISM Quartet, and

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01:00:07

2.27 - William Owens

Composer Chats ·

2025/07/29

William Owens (b. 1963) is a native of Gary, Indiana. A seasoned music educator, he is highly active as a composer, clinician, and conductor throughout North America. His compositional style for young ensembles displays a keen, practical approach, which has firmly established him as a leader in the field. Since 1993, Mr. Owens has over 300 titles to his credit for concert band, string orchestra, and small ensemble. His music is performed and appears on required music lists nationally and abroad

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01:02:47

2.26 - Bobby Ge

Composer Chats ·

2025/07/15

Bobby Ge* (b. 1996) is an American-born, Shanghai-raised composer and media artist whose work engages with themes of communication, home, and hybridity. Described as “expressive and gripping” (Financial Times) and “exciting, frenzied, unpredictable” (CityNews CBR), his work is filled with shimmering textures and restless motion, often undergirded by a wry sense of humor.Winner of the Barlow Prize, Ge has completed a diverse array of projects ranging from experimental short films to large-scale

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01:16:19

2.25 - Shruthi Rajasekar

Composer Chats ·

2025/07/08

Composer and performer Shruthi Rajasekar is a McKnight Composer Fellow with the American Composers Forum, Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, Associate of the Royal Northern College of Music (ARNCM), winner of the Global Women in Music Award from the United Nations, and recipient of the Marshall Scholarship from the Government of the United Kingdom. Shruthi’s music draws from her deep roots in the Carnatic (South Indian classical) and Western classical traditions. Her work highlights identity, community, and

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01:20:21

2.24 - Dennis Tobenski

Composer Chats ·

2025/07/01

Dennis Tobenski is a composer, singer, and die-hard advocate for living composers. As a composer and performer, he embraces emotional complexity and honesty, and never shies away from vulgarity or a good laugh (no polite chuckles, please). Whether he’s behind the microphone as the host of theMusic Publishing Podcastor working as the creator and driving force behind theNewMusicShelf Anthologies of New Music, he lifts his colleagues up, and works to build structures and communities that he wished he’d

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01:02:01

2.23 - Daniel Kidane

Composer Chats ·

2025/06/24

Daniel Kidane‘smusic has been performed extensively across the UK and abroad as well as being broadcast on BBC Radio 3, described by theFinancial Timesas ‘quietly impressive’ and byThe Timesas ‘tautly constructed’ and ’vibrantly imagined’.Daniel was awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Prize in 2013 and in 2016 received a prestigious Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. He received an honorary doctorate from Coventry University in 2022 and is currently a Visiting Tutor in Composition at the Royal Northern

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01:01:03

2.22 - Mark Orton

Composer Chats ·

2025/06/17

Mark Orton is a composer working in the mediums of film scoring, concert music, and radio/podcast. He is both a multi-instrumentalist and a collector of antique and unusual instruments, performing on all manner (and era) of guitars, keyboards, and percussion. He is the co-founder ofTin Hat, an internationally renowned composer/improviser collective with seven critically acclaimed albums. Mark has written scores for dozens of films – documentary, narrative feature, and fine art – and has composed

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01:05:40

2.21 - Joseph Metcalf

Composer Chats ·

2025/06/10

Joseph MetcalfeComposer, Conductor, Orchestrator, Producer• 20+ Yrs Music for Film, Stage & TV • Producer Of Musical Productions • Versatile Across All Musical Genres • Orchestrator • Conductor • 20+ Years of DAWs - Digital Performer, ProTools etc. • Proven Natural Leader, Dependable & Reliable • Self-starter, Fast Turn Around Times • Experienced Producer of Scoring / Recording Sessions - respected among musicians, expertly managing time-frames & budgets • Great team player, calm with

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2.20 - Matthew Recio

Composer Chats ·

2025/06/03

Avid vocal composer Matthew Recio recently finished his post as Vanguard emerging opera composer with Chicago Opera Theatre. During his residency, he developed operas with librettists Royce Vavrek (2021) and Stephanie Fleischmann (2020). The concert presentation of his work with Royce, "The Puppy Episode," was premiered in March of 2021 through the Chicago Opera Theater (COT) and followed by co-production between Opera Columbus and Oberlin Conservatory for the staged premiere.This year he is

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