Composer's Studio
Join hosts Anna Linvill, and Tarik Ghiradella for conversations with contemporary composers about music, life, and what’s happening in the genre defying world of classical music today. 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. Classical composers today are no longer confined to the concert stage or the cathedral but contribute to film scores, television commercials, video game soundtracks and beyond. From graduate students to Grammy winners, this is a classical music show like none you have ever heard. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to join the conversation and find out about upcoming guests and performances.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Douglas Knehans - Is Emotion in Music Real?
Drifting through falling air and tempests, we find ourselves in a musical world of unfinished introspection. Do you think emotion in music is real? Let’s find out. Join us on the Comp…
David Serkin Ludwig - The Music of a New Colossus
When one of your earliest memories is of your grandfather playing at Carnegie Hall, it is hard work just to carve out a place for yourself in your own family. Our guest, Composer David …
David Kirkland Garner - Red Hot Sun
Composer David Kirkland Garner’s music is borne of an obsessive urge to take things apart, separate out the fragments of color, emotion, rhythm, and then reassemble it in a way that rev…
Elainie Lillios - The Fascination of Sound
Composer Elainie Lillios creates electroacoustic soundscapes reflecting her fascination with observing and manipulating the qualities of sound itself. Come with Tarik and Anna on a jou…
Family Secrets: Daniel Thomas Davis and Andrea Edith Moore
We are so excited about the new release of Andrea Edith Moore's debut recording of Daniel Thomas Davis’ haunting and humorous work, Family Secrets: Kith & Kin. Set to texts of seven int…
Chiayu Hsu - A Divided Heart
Much of composer Chiayu Hsu’s music revolves around the poems, myths, States to hone her craft as a composer. She has found great success in the U.S., but her music reflects a divided h…
Lanette Lind - The Music Must Serve the Story
Beloved Raleigh pianist, pedagogue, and composer Lanette Lind did not set out to be a composer, but one commission led to another, and another, and another. As a masterful pianist, comp…
George Tsz-Kwan Lam - Placemaking with Music
Founding member of the New York based ensemble, Rhymes With Opera, composer George Tsz-Kwan Lam was born in Hong Kong, brought up in Massachusetts, and studied in some of the finest com…
Juan Pablo Contreras - Celebrating Mexican Culture
Join Tarik and Anna for a great conversation with composer, Juan Pablo Contreras, a Latin GRAMMY®-nominated composer from Guadalajara, Mexico. In his music, Juan Pablo explores his joyf…
Brittany J. Green - Sound and Movement, Form and Function - Disrupted.
Innovative North Carolina-based composer, artist, and educator, Brittany J. Green’s work explores new ways of looking at the relationships between audience and composer, sound and movem…
Vivian Fung - Bearing Her Heart
“In times of crisis and peril, we have but the reliance of faith - from the profound faith in humanity, faith in love, and faith that we will persevere and get through this with dignity…
Allison Loggins-Hull: Doing it All
Allison Loggins-Hull is a composer and producer with roots in classical, urban art pop, hip-hop, electronic programming, and R&B. The flute duo, Flutronix, she and collaborator Nathali…
Richard Danielpour - Music that speaks of compassion and forgiveness.
At just 19 years old, Grammy award winning Iranian American Jewish-Christian composer Richard Danielpour had a strange mystical experience that left him awed and shaken, but with new cl…
Juliana Hall: Bold and Beautiful
A composer with a deep love of the English language and a secret dramatic streak, Juliana Hall is one of the most prolific Art Song composers alive today. Juliana ventures out of her m…
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain Doesn’t Ask For Permission.
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain doesn’t ask for permission. He is a revolutionary, changing the world of concert music and opera by creating unapologetically black music--opera, string …
Adrienne Albert - An Amazing Life in Music: The Singer, The Composer, and Stravinsky
How can the act of creating transform fear and anger into courage and hope? Composer Adrienne Albert harnesses the mysterious emotional power of music to strengthen the spirit and chang…
What Makes a Life - Jennifer Higdon
What makes a life? After the early death of her younger brother, Andrew Blue, this question consumed composer Jennifer Higdon. Her beloved orchestral work, Blue Cathedral was her creati…
Where Hard Rock and Classical Converge - Andrew McKenna Lee
As a guitarist, composer Andrew McKenna Lee blends virtuosic classical technique with a Rocker’s hard driving passion for rhythm and originality. As a composer, he defies categorization…
Music as Protest for Peace and Equity - Steve Heitzeg
On CS this week, Amy is reunited with an old friend and collaborator, Emmy Award-winning composer, Steve Heitzeg. A lifelong peace and environmental activist, Steve’s music often featur…
This is Where Your World and My World Meet (Tashi Tsering) - Andrea Clearfield
"This is where your world and my world meet." - Tashi Tsering, Royal Tibetan Court Singer in Lo Mothang, Nepal.
When composer Andrea Clearfield accepted a commission from Network for N…