Composer's Studio

Send us Fan Mail Composer Daniel Thomas Davis’ wide range of musical activities has taken him from the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Royal Opera House to monasteries in the Horn of Africa to directing new-music festivals in the rural South. In the past year, he has enjoyed the premieres of two new operas – SIX. TWENTY. OUTRAGEOUS, in an American Opera Projects/Symphony Space co-production direct...

Send us Fan Mail Practicing good Coronavirus social distancing, the Composer’s Studio phones it in with Steven Spiel, a composer who paints with sound. Steven has written music for large and small ensembles, choir, film, and even jazz combos. We talk with Steven about how music in film manipulates our emotional response to the image, what it is like to write music for film, and why he decided that...

Send us Fan Mail In this premiere episode, Amy Scurria, Anna Linvill, and Tarik Ghiradella find humor, wit, deep intelligence, and a deeply down-to-earth rarity in Steven Bryant. With music chiseled in its structure and intent, fusing lyricism, dissonance, silence, technology, and humor into lean, skillfully-crafted works, Steven’s music enthralls listeners and performers alike. His seminal work E...