My podcast with flutist Elizabeth Robinson, Music Crush, is halfway through Season 2! When we started this show, we wanted to a) spotlight FNMC's winning and commissioned composers and b) use it as an excuse to talk to cool people. We have very much succeeded on both fronts. If you haven't taken a listen in a while, here's what's waiting for you to take with you on your summer trips!
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E1 Deep Listening® Facilitator, flutist, composer, and scholar JANE RIGLER joins us today to walk us through a Deep listening session, share the fascinations of living abroad, and drop some sneaky advice on making yourself indispensable in the workplace. Jane calls herself a storyteller and a connector; we would like to humbly add brilliant philosopher to that list. Referenced inspirations: Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Wade Matthews, Steve Fernandez, Butch Morris, Walter Thomspon, and Peter Kowald.
E2 This conversation with flutist, composer, and educator MELISSA KEELING is like your daily dose of OM. Today, she chats with Nicole and Elizabeth about her world-altering move from the South to New York City to study with Robert Dick, the value of establishing authentic relationships in the business (saying it louder for the people in the back), and she encourages us to embrace the F Word (FUN)! Listen for some hot tips on getting started on the glissando headjoint, incorporating electronics into performances, and the value of a good jaw harp lesson.
E3 Deep Dive: New Music Festivals Elizabeth and Nicole discuss their experiences attending new music festivals (with heavy–and admiring–emphasis on New Music Gathering) and explain their own process in programming FNMC’s New Music Festival. There are some great tips here for developing winning proposals, as well as a reveal of our upcoming NMF dates!
E4 Composer and University of Florida professor Paul Richards likes a big canvas! Today he chats with Elizabeth and Nicole about the limitlessness of the recording studio, reimaging his classical works as prog rock music for his album, Rough Translations, and elaborates on one of his guiding principles as an artist: “The world doesn’t need more beautiful things, but rather an expanded concept of what is beautiful.”
E5 Deep Dive: the FNMC Composition Competition Ever wonder how FNMC’s Composition Competition came into existence? Today Nicole talks with Elizabeth, who runs the competition, about how we determine categories, choose finalists, and the elements of the competition that perhaps make it most uniquely FNMC: our commitment to repeatedly programming winning pieces, and the membership vote that drives the whole shebang. Composers looking to learn more about FNMC’s Composition Competition, or in search of some helpful tips for any competition, this one is required listening for you! (PS, Elizabeth won the Graduate Research Competition hosted by NFA, not FNMC, but you probably already knew that.)
E6 Composer KEVIN DAY is a winner of the BMI Student Composer Award, a three-time finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize, and he’s not yet 30. Today the young professor and composer-about-town
talks about his family musical legacy, juggling the beginning of an academic career while finishing his student days with a bang (his DMA dissertation for University of Miami is slated to be an opera he has been commissioned to write), and considers what today’s music students need to be successful. When asked about his heroes, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, and Tyler the Creator do make appearances, alongside Jennifer Higdon and John Coltrane in this wonderfully eclectic exploration of styles and inspirations.
E7 (E) Today, Elizabeth and Nicole get some much-needed, soul-searching inspiration from composer Carter Pann. We talk about the value of not being perfect in your youth, the complicated beauty of embracing identity in your work, and Carter shares some great advice about ways to stay curious for adventurers of all ages. Trigger warning: we may or may not dunk on social media.
E8 Flutist-composer Tim Hagen discusses the personal “sonic encyclopedia” that guides his performance style, explains why all performers should compose, and encourages us to explore our “why” in a carefully crafted mission statement. We think his dream collaborations will surprise and inspire you, and there’s a great sneak peek at his upcoming projects (oh so many!) along with his favorite advice from composer Adolphus Hailstork.
E9 (E) Get to know Zara Lawler, aka The Flute on Its Feet, in this amazing chat featuring tales of serendipity, the porousness of her artistic boundaries, and a mini-history of the dancing flutist! With projects ranging from farm concerts in rural Massachusetts to choreographing the Bach B minor Suite in New York City, this fascinating conversation will provide you with the most perfect, midweek creative shot in the arm.
E10 Today, Elizabeth and Nicole are having cocktails with composer Joseph Hallman, who is splitting his time between his hometown of Philadelphia and Miami these days. Between sips, he catches us up on how he survived the pandemic, explores his extensive catalog of compositional gifts, and shares some very generous thoughts on dealing with anxiety and growing older and wiser.
E11 Kian Ravaei, winner of the 2023 FNMC Composition Competition with his EDM-inspired flute + electronics piece, Ecstasies, chats with us today about his composer warm-ups, a delightful-sounding rejection letter group chat, and his latest project combining traditional Persian and Jewish musics, plus a primer on DJ life and the many iterations of EDM.
E12 College freshman (!) Christian Yom, winner of FNMC’s 2023 Composition Competition for his chamber piece Sansori, was kind enough to talk to these two middle-aged ladies today about his love for Korean food and traditional music, Ravel, and lifelong learning. He encouraged us to dream big, take risks, and appreciate rejection as a part of the learning process.
E13 Jacob Thiede is a composer and saxophonist from Murray, Kentucky, where the smell of tobacco barns and honeysuckle fill the air. He holds a PhD in Music Composition from the University of North Texas and currently finds himself as a financial advisor for TIAA. Today, Jake chats about his compositional experiments with white noise, the relationship between music and light, and his application of ride rhythms from heavy metal to metric modulations in his own works. Listen for some detailed ideas about how dance affects music and some financial advice you probably weren’t expecting to hear!
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