Best Daniel Vezza Podcasts (2024)

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podcast 67-Richard Barrett (Part 2 of 2) 59:10

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Richard is a composer and improviser who has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. His long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986 (and its more recent octet version fORCH), comp…

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podcast 66-Richard Barrett (Part 1 of 2) 1:02:28

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Richard is a composer and improviser who has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. His long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986 (and its more recent octet version fORCH), comp…

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podcast 65-Chaya Czernowin (Part 2 of 2) 1:00:41

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These episodes are normally limited to one per composer but Chaya has been to too many interesting places. The first part will focus on her biography with the occasional excursion into her music and the second part will focus mostly on her music. Chaya is a composer from Israel who teaches composition at Harvard University. She has written music fo…

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podcast 64-Chaya Czernowin (Part 1 of 2) 1:01:10

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These episodes are normally limited to one per composer but Chaya has been to too many interesting places. The first part will focus on her biography with the occasional excursion into her music and the second part will focus mostly on her music. Chaya is a composer from Israel who teaches composition at Harvard University. She has written music fo…

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podcast 63-Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler 58:42

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Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler is a German composer who is currently based in Berlin. He studied composition at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann, and at the Music Academy Prague with Marek Kopelent. He also studied architecture, musicology and history of art at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2006 he received a schola…

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podcast 62-Germán Alonso (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 58:20

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Germán is a composer from Madrid who currently lives in Geneva. He studied Guitar and Composition (specialization in Electroacoustic Composition) at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid. He continued studying composition at the Strasbourg Conservatoire with Mark André and new technologies at IRCAM. He has been selected for Domaine Fo…

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podcast 61-Tobias Klich (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 54:26

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Tobias is a German composer from Jena. He went to the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belverdere in Weimar. After that he studied composition and guitar at the Hocheschule für Müsik “Franz Liszt” in Weimar. Presently, he works as a composer, sound artist, and guitarist. His pieces are performed by well known ensembles and orchestras at various festivals for…

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podcast 60-Esaias Järnegard (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 1:13:23

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Esaias is a Swedish composer who currently lives in Gothenburg. His music has been performed by ensembles and soloists such as Richard Craig , Hugo Ticciati, Karin Hellqvist, Pontus Langendorf, Sergej Tchirkov, Anna Petrini, Cora Schmeiser, Ensemble SurPlus, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and the Curious Chamber Players. His music has been performed in S…

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podcast 59-Amit Gilutz (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 1:07:51

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Amit is an Israeli composer who now resides in Germany. He has studied in Jerusalem, Ithaca, and New York. His music is influenced by electroacoustic mediums as well as improvisation. His recent pieces tend to be interdisciplinary and conceptual, combining political ideas, theatrical effects and movement plus textual sources ranging from the work o…

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podcast 58-Taylor Brook (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 57:22

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Taylor is an American composer who is currently based in New York. His music has been performed in North America and Europe by ensembles and soloists such as the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Quatour Bozzini, JACK quartet, and soloists such as Joshua Modney and Mira Benjamin. Taylor participated in the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne FORUM 2010, composing a new…

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podcast 57-Jacob Gotlib (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 1:04:46

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Jacob was born and raised in Louisville, KY, and has written music for instruments, electronics, dance, and multimedia. His music is regularly played at festivals around North America and Europe, most recently at the Wellesley Composers Conference (Wellesley, MA), the Acht Brücken Festival (Cologne, Germany), Hear+Now (Louisville, KY) and June in B…

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podcast 56-Emre Sihan Kaleli (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 1:08:10

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Emre is a Turkish composer who is currently living in the Netherlands. His music has been performed in a number of prestigious festivals, including the Internationale Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (2010), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2011), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (2012) and Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik (2013). He received …

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podcast 55-Yoshiaki Onishi (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 1:24:31

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Yoshi a Japanese American composer and conductor who is currently a Teaching Fellow at Columbia University. His principal teachers at Columbia have been Fabien Lévy, Fred Lerdahl, and Tristan Murail. His music has been performed worldwide by such ensembles as JACK Quartet, Next Mushroom Promotion, and the Nieuw Ensemble. He was awarded the Gaudeamu…

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podcast 54- Daniel Moreira (Gaudeamus Muziekweek) 1:16:18

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I was recently invited to conduct interviews at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2013, so for the next two and a half months the interviews will focus on the Gaudeamus Prize Nominees. The interviews took place in Museum Speelklok, which is a museum of street organs. So if every now and then you hear Thriller, Old Macdonald, or Gangnam Style being played on str…

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podcast 53-David Brynjar Franzson 1:14:23

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David is an Icelandic composer currently residing in New York. His works have been performed by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Surplus, Avanti!, Eighth Blackbird, and Yarn/Wire. He is a founding member of the Icelandic Composer’s Collective s.l.a.t.u.r. and co-runs the record label Carrier Records with Sam Pluta a…

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podcast 52-Fred Lerdahl 1:13:09

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Fred is a New York based composer whose music has been commissioned and performed by major chamber ensembles and orchestras. His seminal book A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, co-authored with linguist Ray Jackendoff, is a founding document for the growing field of the cognitive science of music. He studied at Lawrence University, Princeton, and …

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podcast 51-Conrad Cummings 1:03:14

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Conrad is a New York based composer who writes opera, symphonic music, chamber music, and music for his ensemble of amplified instruments and voices. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and numerous clubs and alternative performance spaces. Groups performing his mus…

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podcast 50-Carl Christian Bettendorf 1:09:10

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Carl is a New York-based composer and conductor who was born in Hamburg, Germany. He studied composition with Hans-Jurgen von Bose and Wolfgang Rihm in Munich and Karlsruhe before moving to New York, where he received his doctorate from Columbia University under Tristan Murail. His works have been played at major new-music festivals and venues in E…

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podcast 49-Juliana Hodkinson 1:02:59

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Juliana is a British composer living in Berlin. Her work ranges from chamber music and intimate semi-staged object pieces to large-scale electro-acoustic orchestral works, and often involves visual or theatrical elements. She has also created installations, and electronic performances embracing field recordings, samples, voice, text and foley. This…

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podcast 48-Wei-Chieh Lin 59:18

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Wei-Chieh Lin is a New York based composer who was born in Taichung, Taiwan, his music has been performed at venues in the U.S. and abroad, including the Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Centre Pompidou, Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall and the National Concert Halls in Taiwan. Among the ensembles that have performed or commissioned his works are Ensemble I…

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podcast 47-Ondrej Adámek 1:09:14

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Ondrej is a Czech composer who is currently living in Berlin. He studied composition at the academy of music in Prague and at the Conservatoire de Paris. He composes orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic music as well as working with choreographers of contemporary dance. He has received numerous commissions such as the Wittener Tage für n…

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podcast 46-Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri 1:04:09

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Marianthi is a Greek composer who is currently based in Berlin. Her work includes compositions for instruments and sound objects-sculptures that she creates herself and in collaboration with artist Pe Lang. Papalexandri’s work focuses on the production and reception of sound by questioning and transforming the role and function of the instrument as…

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podcast 45-Irene Galindo Quero 1:05:57

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Irene is a Spanish composer currently based in Berlin. She studied composition with Pedro Guajardo, Cornelius Schwehr and Johannes Schöllhorn, and has been recognized by several fellowships and awards such as La Caixa-DAAD, Association des Amis de Royaumont, Artist-in-Residence of the NRW Kunststiftung and the Goethe Institute in Mumbai. Her music …

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podcast 44-Martin Schüttler 1:13:35

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Martin is a composer based in Berlin as well as theory and composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. His music has been performed by such ensembles as Trio Accanto, Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik and the RSO Frankfurt. In 2002 Martin won the Kranichsteiner Kompositionspreis of the Darmstadt Summer Courses. You can list…

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podcast 43-Lucia Ronchetti 1:18:20

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Lucia is an Italian composer who is currently based in Salerno and Berlin. She has been the recipient of the Music Theater Now Prize, the Prize Fonds Experimentelles Musiktheater NRW, and had been the Composer-in-residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In our conversation we talk about her need to remove old pieces from her catalog…

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podcast 42-Tristan Perich 1:04:15

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Tirstan is a New York based composer and visual artist. His works are inspired by the aesthetic simplicity of math, physics and code. He has had solo exhibitions at bitforms gallery (NYC), Mikrogalleriet (Copenhagen), Museo Carandente (Spoleto), The Addison Gallery (Massachusetts), Katonah Museum (New York), Monster Truck (Dublin), LEAP (Berlin) am…

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podcast 41-Maximilian Marcoll 1:08:36

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Maximilian is a composer from Germany who is currently based in Berlin. He studied percussion, instrumental and electronic composition in Lübeck and Essen, Germany. In his series Compounds he focusses on the transcription of concrete sounds, mostly recorded in everyday life situations. He is also part of the new music collective Stock 11. You can l…

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podcast 40-Andrew Noble 1:04:52

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Andrew is a composer and musicologist who has been living in Berlin since 2003. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the Manhattan School, and a Masters of Music in Composition from the University of Southampton. He has also earned a doctorate in Musicology at the Technische Universität Berlin. His articles have been published in schola…

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podcast 39-Emily Howard 1:08:51

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Emily is an English composer based in Manchester. She has had works performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra, and has been featured in such festivals as Wien Modern, New Music 20×12, and the BBC Proms. You can check out more of her music at www.emilyhoward.com In our…

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podcast 38-Ashley Fure 1:07:43

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Ashley is an American composer of acoustic, electroacoustic, and installation works that have been performed throughout Europe and North America. She holds degrees in composition from Oberlin Conservatory, IRCAM, and Harvard University. She has recieved a 2012 Darmstadt Stipendienpreis , a 2012 Staubach Honorarium, a 2011 Jezek Prize, an Adalbert W…

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podcast 37-Matthew Shlomowitz 1:17:36

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Matthew is a composer from Australia who is currently based in London where he co-directs the new music ensemble Plus Minus and teaches Experimental Music at the Royal College of Music. He has composed works for groups such as Champ D’Action, Ensemble Offspring, EXAUDI, Nieuw Ensemble, Quatuor Diotima, and the Ricciotti Ensemble. You can listen to …

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podcast 36-Clara Iannotta 1:02:19

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Clara is an Italian composer who is currently living in Berlin as part of the DAAD Artists Program. She has had her works performed by Trio K/D/M, Ensemble Aleph, Talea Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and members of Ensemble Recherche. You can listen to more of her music at www.claraiannotta.com. In our conversation we talk about her tr…

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podcast 35-Bryan Jacobs 1:03:35

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Bryan Jacobs is a New York based composer and guitarist. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, The McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, Wet Ink, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and Ensemble Pamplemousse. He has had performances at Festival Ai-maako (Chile), La Muse en Festival (Paris, …

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podcast 34-Mark Barden 1:17:24

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Mark is an American composer who is currently based in Berlin. He works in the areas of concert music and concert installation. Recent commissions include new works for the Donaueschingen, Witten, and Darmstadt festivals as well as for ensemble recherche, KNM Berlin, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. You can listen to more of his music at www.mark-ba…

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podcast 33-Philip Venables 1:10:58

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Philip is a composer from the UK who is currently based in Berlin. His commissions have included the Bregenz Festival in Austria, the BBC Singers , and the BBC Symphony Orchestra . Other works have been written for and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, Rambert Dance Company, and the Cheltenham International Music F…

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podcast 32-Johannes Kreidler 1:10:46

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Johannes is a German composer currently living in Berlin. We reference a lot of his conceptual works in our interview so if you want to understand them in detail the following links to his work might help. “Product Placements” which is played at the beginning of this interview. “Charts Music” Melodies derived from Stock Charts, arranged with Micros…

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podcast 31-Richard Carrick 1:05:16

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Richard is a New York based composer, pianist and conductor. His music has been performed internationally by the New York Philharmonic, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Darmstadt Summer Festival, Merkin Hall, JACK Quartet, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and others. You can listen to more of his works at www.richardcarrick.com In our conversation we talk about his o…

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podcast 30-Fabien Lévy 1:27:43

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Fabien is a French composer who is currently living in Berlin. He studied composition with Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire. His works have been performed by the Ensemble Recherche, the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, and the Berlin Radio Symphony orchestra (among others). He won the 2004 Förderpreis from the Ernst von…

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podcast 29-Reiko Fueting 1:08:47

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Reiko is a German composer and performer based in New York. He has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Dresden Chamber Choir . He is also a professor in composition and theory at the Manhattan School of Music. You can listen to more of his works at www.reiko-fueting.de. In our chat we discuss how …

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podcast 28-Malin Bång 1:06:51

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Malin is a Swedish composer who currently resides in Berlin as part of the 2012 Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Her work includes music for instrumental ensembles, orchestra, staged music, electronic music, instrumental sound installations and performance pieces. She is also the composer and co-artistic director of the Curious Chamber Players, a Swedish…

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podcast 27-Martin Bresnick (Part 2 of 2) 59:01

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I normally edit each interview to fit into one podcast, but Martin has too many great stories, including one interesting encounter he had with Luigi Nono, which he wrote about in the New York Times, and many others about studying with Ligeti. So Martin gets two episodes. In part one we talk about different political climates and the music being mad…

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podcast 26-Martin Bresnick (Part 1 of 2) 58:32

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I normally edit each interview to fit into one podcast, but Martin has too many great stories, including one interesting encounter he had with Luigi Nono, which he wrote about in the New York Times, and many others about studying with Ligeti. So Martin gets two episodes. In part one we talk about different political climates and the music being mad…

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podcast 25-Simon Steen-Andersen 1:14:36

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Simon is a Berlin based composer, performer and installation artist as well as a lecturer of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Århus. His works include instrumental music, electronics, video, and performance within a range of settings. You can listen to more of his music at www.simonsteenandersen.dk . In our conversations we talk about h…

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podcast 24-David T. Little 1:14:16

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David is a New York based composer and the founding artistic director and drummer for the chamber ensemble Newspeak. He has a new CD out of solider songs, an opera-theatre work exploring the perceptions versus the realities of war through the eyes of a soldier. One of the tracks is featured in this interview. In our conversation we talk about when …

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podcast 23-Eric Wubbels 1:10:22

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Eric is a New York based composer pianist, and Executive Director of Wet Ink. His music has been performed by Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, ICE, Yarn/Wire, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and The Knights. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition at Oberlin Conservatory. You can listen to more of his music at www.wubbelsmusic.com …

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podcast 22-Sam Pluta 1:04:21

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Sam is a New York based composer and improviser. He is Technical Director and electronics performer for the Wet Ink Ensemble, and has been commissioned and premiered by Mivos Quartet, Yarn/Wire, ICE, Timetable Percussion, RIOT Trio, and So Percussion. You can hear more of his music at www.sampluta.com. In our conversation we talk about his transiti…

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podcast 21-Alex Mincek 1:08:00

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Alex Mincek is a New York-based composer and performer. He is currently the saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and artistic director of the Wet Ink Ensemble, which he founded in 1998. You can check out more of his music at www.alexmincek.com or go to an upcoming concert featuring his music alongside composer Eric Wubbels on Feb 8th at the DiMenna Cente…

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podcast 20-Kate Soper 54:10

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Kate is a composer and vocalist based in New York and Boston. She is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge MA, and is Managing Director and performer for the new music ensemble Wet Ink. You can listen to more of her music at www.katesoper.com, or go to her publisher’s page at Project Schott New York. In our conversatio…

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podcast 19-Timo Andres 55:09

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Timo is a Brooklyn based composer and pianist who is part of the composer collective Sleeping Giant. He has had commissions and performances from the New World Symphony, Albany Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. You can check out his blog and music at www.andres.com In our conversation we talk about a composer having a sense of consistency…

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podcast 18-Sarah Nemtsov 1:02:43

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Sarah is a Berlin based composer. She has worked with such groups as Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Accroche Note, Trio Accanto, Ensemble Adapter, Nomos Quartet, and the International Ensemble Modern Academy. You can find out more about here at www.sarah-nemtsov.de In our conversation we talk about creating associations in music without tex…

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