Dismantling Dissonance
Disrupting the status quo for 21st century performers and educators, "Dismantling Dissonance" is a platform for honest conversations about how we can incorporate new ideas into projects in order to create content and connect in a more meaningful way.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 40
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
Creativity and Communication feat. Joy & Claire
This week, I got to sit down with two of the people who helped me get started in podcasting, Joy and Claire of "This is Joy and Claire." In their own words, their podcast is a conversation every week…
Joe Troop- What is Community?
Joe Troop is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter hailing originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The founder of GRAMMY-nominated stringband Che Apalache, Joe’s music is deeply insp…
Max Rainwater and How to Be Friends With Your Metronome
This week, I sat down with my longtime friend, Max Rainwater. Max is a multi-instrumentalist based out of the Hudson Valley. We talked all about his teaching methodology, "Scratch to Gigs" and how to…
Evan Newman Returns
Evan is back! Our first repeat guest, Evan is a pianist and salesman focused on creating a culture of gratitude and appreciation with his clients. A MN native, Evan received his Bachelor of Music deg…
Natalie Hagwood
Natalie Hagwood may be the changing face of the modern cellist.
Unbridled by past conventions of what her instrument could and should do, the 28-year-old Sacramento transplant, who began formal cello …
Greg Childress
Gregory Childress (he/him) is Lynchburg, Virginia native violist and violinist who began playing at the age of five in the Lynchburg City Schools Suzuki string program. Greg graduated Cum Laude from …
Ben Plotnick
From the day Ben Plotnick was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada his life has revolved
almost entirely around music. Since his early start playing classical violin, he has found
himself as a bit of a mus…
J David Sloan
This week is something different, and very special! I got to sit down with my cousin, J David and hear all about his early days as a country musician. We talk about songwriting, how he discovered Lyl…
Episode 32: Curtis J. Stewart
CURTIS STEWART is a multi Grammy-nominated violinist/composer who enjoys bouncing between MTV specials with Wyclef Jean and sold out shows at Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder to stints at the…
Lauren Rioux of JamWithLauren.com
Lauren Rioux is enthusiastically sought out for her teaching expertise, leading classes and workshops across the globe. Her online string resource site, JamWithLauren.com provides students the world …
Episode 30: Wade Fernandez
Soaring around the world with Menominee Indian Reservation roots, Wade Fernandez (Walks With The Black Wolf) is a “deeply authentic” multi-award winning international touring artist from the Menomine…
Episode 29: Gabe Bolkosky and Education for Happiness
Violinist and violist Gabe Bolkosky has been praised for the way he "takes audiences into his confidence and includes them" and described as having "the serenity of a master without a hint of coldnes…
Episode 28: Rita Porfiris and the "Uncertainty of Fate" Festival
American violist Rita Porfiris has performed in major concert halls and music festivals worldwide as a chamber musician, orchestral musician, and as a soloist.
Currently the Associate Professor of Vi…
Episode 27: Effective Practice with Krissy Bergmark
Krissy Bergmark is a tabla player, percussionist, and composer in the Twin Cities. Bergmark
centers her work on bringing tabla to new genres and cross-genres through composition and
performance. She ha…
Episode 26: Kenji Bunch
Kenji Bunch is one of America’s most engaging, influential, and prolific composers. Through an expansive blend of classical and vernacular styles, Bunch makes music that’s “clearly modern but deeply …
Episode 25: Brian Kavolius-Matherne (Brian KM)
Performer-Composer Brian Kavolius-Matherne is a horn and electronics soloist with
projects as varied as the medium is unique. With influences including Tchaikovsky, Strauss,
Broadway, French-Acoustic-F…
Episode 24: Rachel Calvert of Barbaro
We're back! Bailey kicks off this next run of episodes with friend and fellow fiddle demon, Rachel Calvert. Rachel plays fiddle and sings with Barbaro, an award-winning Bluegrass and Americana band b…
Episode 23: Sarah Jane Kenner, Professional Violinist and Culinary Coach
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Episode 22: Keri Anderson and the Importance of Strength Training
This week kicks off a mini-arc of episodes that takes a look at a few ways we as musicians can take care of ourselves. Up first, we have Keri Anderson! Keri describes her passion as, "to help people …
Episode 21: Evan Newman and the Power of Sales
This week, Bailey sits down with Evan Newman, pianist and sales wiz. A lot of musicians get turned off when they hear the word "sales;" the art should speak loudly enough for itself, right? Not alway…