Composer Chats

Tyler Arcari (b. 1989) is a composer, arranger, author, and clinician whose music is played around the world. He received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in music education from Troy University where he st…

Brooke Pierson (b. 1987) is a multi-award winning composer, multiple ASCAP+ Award Recipient, conductor, and teacher of the year nominated educator out of Ypsilanti, Michigan (USA). 

Brooke’s music has…

Arthur Breur started seriously studying piano as a child of eight after his grandmother Jocelyn passed away. The two had been very close, and his weekend stays at her home inevitably included him ask…

LAN THEISEN (b. 4 October 1981) is a composer, saxophonist, author, and educator. Influenced in his youth by the careers of Leonard Bernstein and Quincy Jones, Theisen soon established his personal e…

Ryan Fraley (b. 1973) is an accomplished composer, arranger, producer, music engraver, and engineer. Ryan's compositions and arrangements have been performed worldwide by jazz ensembles, orchestras, …

Katherine Bergman (b. 1985) is a Minnesota-based composer who draws on environmentalism, literature, and found materials to create music that has been described as hypnotic and visceral. She has rece…

Jorge Luis Vargas  was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila in 1971 and currently resides in Eagle Pass, Texas.  His full time job is a band director at Memorial Junior High, where he teaches beginner ba…

Emily Rice is an LA-based, British-born composer for film and TV, known for her dark, post-classical score to the Netflix series "The I-Land"(executive produced by and starring Kate Bosworth) and for…

John M. Pasternak is an active composer, conductor, and teacher. John attended Kent State University (KSU) where he pursued a Bachelor of Music Education degree and served as President of the Kent St…

Jon Bubbett, a native of Dothan, AL, graduated from Dothan High School (1977). He received his BMEd from Troy State University in Troy, AL, in 1981 and his MMEd in 1989 from VanderCook College of Mus…

Murat Selçuk is a composer, music producer, and classical clarinetist originally from Turkey and currently based in Los Angeles. 

Murat's most recent project is the highly anticipated upcoming Netflix…

JaRod Hall (b. 1991) is a Texas-native composer, educator, and performer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of North Texas where he studied conducting with Nicholas …

Harrison J. Collins (b. 1999) began composing at the young age of thirteen. Since then, he has made a name for himself across the United States as a skilled composer. He combines his musical studies …

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 pe…

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 landscape…

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 riveti…

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Jeff Toyne to the podcast!

https://jefftoyne.com

Join Jason as he welcomes composer Steve Danyew to the podcast!

www.stevedanyew.com

teve Danyew’s music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the…

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 a…