Interviews

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Identity in the Details: An Interview with Dana Al Fardan
One of the most widely heard composers from the Middle East is Dana Al Fardan. Every month, over 2 million people hear her music because, as Official Qatar Airways Composer, her music is played during the boarding and disembarking process
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Mixing It All Up Together: The Music of Daryl Runswick
Composer and arranger Daryl Runswick has been involved in all manners of music from the mid-1960s until today. He’s been in jazz ensembles, played as a session musician, and has been a composer of film and TV music. He’s worked
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The New World of the New Composer: An Interview with William Cole
William Cole is a recent graduate of Cambridge and a new student in the Masters in Composition and Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. We spoke with him recently to talk about what a new composer does
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The Pleasure of Making Things
In Touch with Matthew Kaner
Matthew Kaner is one of a handful of young British composers who have passed through that country’s long list of development opportunities and begun to forge a distinctive musical voice. Like many composers of his generation you can hear idiomatic
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Musical Gesture and Musical Sound: An Interview with Eric Whitacre
Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) has an international following and makes appearances around the world (and on the internet) conducting choirs and bringing the modern choral sound to people who didn’t know they liked choral music.
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Wandering off the Map: An Interview with Richard Causton
British composer Richard Causton takes an international view of contemporary music: his UK studies were at the University of York and the Royal College of Music, but it was his time in Italy that has most affected his work. He
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Composing as Curating: In Touch with Listenpony
London’s contemporary music scene is unique. A perfect storm of engaged audiences, an urban landscape full of unusual venues and limited funding awarded only to the most creative has led to a surge of small organisations taking the music they
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Curtains of Light and Sound: A Talk with Composer Joyce Tang Wai-Chung
Composer Joyce Tang spoke with us last week and we were delighted to meet a composer with a background in electro-acoustic music and musicology. Joyce did master’s degrees in both composition and electro-acoustic music at Hong Kong Baptist University and
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