Clexical

Ana began studying piano at the age of six in Romania. Her rigorous musical education included solfège and ear training, which taught her to hear melodies and harmonies internally before playing them. Although one of her first teachers believed her hands were too small for her to become a pianist, Ana continued with her mother’s encouragement and overcame this challenge through hard work. Ana bega...

This episode features Yuri Lee, a Korean-Japanese composer and violinist. Based in New York, she attended Juilliard Pre College and went on to study at Princeton. Spreading joy to others is a fundamental part of what she does with her music. In this name, she founded Music Around Us, which brings music performed by young musicians to residents of senior assisted living. Her music has won several a...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, Jean Park. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, please visit...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, Jean Park. Here, you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journeys as musicians, and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, please vi...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, Jean Park. Here, you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journeys as musicians, and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, please vi...

This episode features acclaimed composer Missy Mazzoli. She grew up in Pennsylvania before attending Boston University and Yale School of Music, as well as earning a Fulbright scholarship to the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. She has previously taught at New York University and Yale, and currently teaches at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. She is one of the two first woman composers to h...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, Jean Park. Here, you will hear conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journeys as musicians, and their thoughts on today’s new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, please visit www.c...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I'm your host, Jean Park. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn about our work, please visit www....

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, Jean Park. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, please visit...

William Cooper has had a very diverse career as not just a composer, but as a pianist and conductor as well. His music has been acclaimed by Augustin Hadelich, the Julliard Orchestra, Trio 180, the JACK Quartet, and the Lysander Trio, and has been performed at the Radio France Festival and the Wellesley Composer Conference.    Along with holding positions on the faculty at Purdue University, Vince...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, [Kweku Adusei-Poku]. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, pl...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, [Kweku Adusei-Poku]. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, pl...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, [Kweku Adusei-Poku]. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, pl...

Richard Wilson is an incredibly prolific composer, having over a hundred works for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles. His compositions have been performed by a number of celebrated groups and artists including Dawn Upshaw, the Chicago Quartet, the San Francisco Symphony, and the London Philharmonic. Wilson has received many accolades for his works including an Academy Award from the Amer...

Chris Arrell is a celebrated composer and teacher. His incredible works have led to commissions from many prestigious organizations including Spivey Hall, Cornell University, and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. He has received worldwide recognition for his works including Bent Frequency Underscore Prize, the Ettelson Composer Award, the Ossia Music Prize, and awards from the League of...

Welcome to Clexical, the podcast dedicated to contemporary classical music! I’m your host, [Kweku Adusei-Poku]. Here you will listen to conversations with living contemporary composers about their work, their journey as musicians and their thoughts on the current new music scene. Join us as we explore and influence the vibrant world of contemporary classical music. To learn more about our work, pl...

Daniel Asia is a prolific composer and educator. His works for orchestra have been commissioned and performed by numerous major orchestras across the U.S. and the world. His work has earned him numerous prestigious awards and fellowships including a Fulbright Arts Award Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland Fund for Music Grant, and numerous prizes in composition from ASCAP and BMI...

Chaya Czernowin (χaja t͡ʃɛʁˈnobin) is an acclaimed composer and educator. Her work is characterized by attempts to find alternative temporalities, changing perspectives and scale, and fragmentation, all coupled with a high emotional intensity. She makes direct reference to the use of metaphors as a means of reaching an unfamiliar sound space and the use of noise and physical parameters such as wei...

Dr. Sam Nichols is a renowned composer, musician, and educator. He has written works for a variety of ensembles and organizations including the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, and the Composers Conference at Wellesley College. Dr. Nichols has also won numerous awards for his compositions including the 2011 Lee Ettelson...

Osnat Netzer /osˈnat ˈnɛtsɛʁ/ is a composer, performer and educator. Osnat creates her compositions collaboratively, tailoring her work to the performer’s sensibilities, physicality and improvisational inclinations. She takes inspiration from cognitive linguistics, and in dialogue with the embodied experience of physical forces, such as potential and kinetic energy, resulting in compositions that...

Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984, New York) is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations. Balancing lushness and austerity, immersive textures and telling details, dramatic impact, and interiority, Cerrone’s multi-GRAMMY-nominated music is utterly compelling and uniquely his...

Chilean American composer Javier Farias has been awarded First Prize in the Andrés Segovia Composition Competition, International Composing Competition «2 Agosto,» and Michele Pittaluga Composition Competition. In 2014 he was honored with the Fromm Music Foundation Prize at Harvard University for a concerto for two guitars composed for Sérgio and Odair Assad and the YOA Orchestra of the Americas....

Andrés Soto is a Costa Rican composer based in Los Angeles with an active career in both film and concert music. He has written music for several feature films, documentaries, shorts, trailers and video games, as well as numerous concert works that have been performed by orchestras around the world, (including the Nashville Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Buffalo...

Nicolás Lell Benavides’ (Ben-ah-VEE-des) music has been praised for finding “…a way to sketch complete characters in swift sure lines…” (Anne Midgette, Washington Post) and cooking up a “jaunty score [with] touches of cabaret, musical theater and Latin dance.” (Tim Smith, OPERA NEWS). He has received commissions from groups like The New York Philharmonic/The Juilliard School, Eighth Blackbird, New...

As a prolific composer who blends Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries, Dr. Chen Yi is a recipient of the Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She has been Lorena Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor at the Conservatory of Music and Dance in the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1998. She was elected to...