For Love and Music

With a successful career in TV, film, and fashion, Tara Joseph welcomes to today’s show, the one and only,  Donna Air . Walking down memory lane, Donna talks about how she got started in the entertainment industry as well as the memorable moments within her career, her love for animals, and how motherhood changed her life forever. Tune in to hear more. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and s...

Music is an art of expressing one's emotions and essence that impacts the listener's emotions. Join Tara Joseph's as she gets to know film and television composer  Anne Nikitin . In this episode, Anne walks us through how she found herself as a film composer and how she scored the BAFTA-winning Film, The Imposter, while also sharing life-changing stories of working with directors and receiving awa...

Emanne Beasha really is such a talent. Still at the tender age of 12, she has travelled the world extensively showcasing her beautiful soprano voice. Her music career started when she was as young as 2. She went on to win Arabs Got Talent at eight and then became a finalist in America’s Got Talent in 2019. Emanne joins Tara Joseph to discuss her music lessons, how she takes care of her still devel...

Tara Joseph sits down today with top A&R Executive,  Lynn Lendway . Lynn explains what it takes to achieve success within the industry and how 2020 made us all find ways of creating interesting and innovative opportunities to try and achieve new goals during such a challenging year. She also looks back on how she entered the music industry, as well as her experiences as a tour manager and TV p...

How much music can one mind hold? Having created over 2,000 orchestral and big band arrangements for some of the biggest names in the music industry,  Chris Walden  is such a prolific composer that it must be his heart that’s handling most of the notes. Chris’s humongous talent and intense love for music took him away from his native Germany and brought him to Hollywood, where his career blossomed...

Learning everything by himself through improvising and listening to the pop music of his time,  Reinhold Heil  always had the vision of being in the studio with other musicians making music, being on stage, and playing for thousands of people. Years later, that vision became a complete reality. Reinhold is a German-born musician and Golden Globe-nominated film and television composer based in Los...

Emily Bear  knows the value of hard work and perseverance in creating a name for herself in the music industry. Having composed and performed music since she was 3 years old, Emily has become a world-renowned classical and jazz pianist, film and TV composer and singer-songwriter who has bagged a string of incredible awards even before the age of 20. Refusing to be stereotyped as a “child prodigy,”...

When love and music collide, it all makes sense. In this episode,  Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum  joins Tara Joseph as they talk about finding a love who speaks the same language as you and working and living together. Nora is a Grammy Award-winning composer. Today, she shares her musical process and the joy of working and living with her wife who’s also a composer. Get to know some of the projects Nora ha...

If you’ve ever played video games like Call of Duty: Mobile with your speakers or headphones on mute, you would understand how much of a difference the score makes in your gaming experience. Whether you enjoy consuming films, TV shows or video games, someone behind the scene worked hard to create that unique sonic world for you. That is what Austrian-born composer,  Walter Mair  does and he excels...

Breaking new musical acts involves a lot of hard work and orchestrating a global marketing campaign is key. Senior music executive  Dion Singer  did not think he would be doing this highly demanding job when he was a young boy growing up in South Africa during Apartheid. He only knew that he was passionate about his love for music. He stuck to that passion, and one thing led to another, and before...

The composing process is an art that encompasses so much skill and so much talent. Tara Joseph is joined on the show today by  Halli Cauthery , an Emmy-nominated film and TV composer. He talks about how he creates his masterpieces and describes the process and the work that goes into it. He also introduces us to one of his latest works, Future Man, an original series for Hulu, co-created by Seth R...

Managing artists is all about understanding talent, taking some care, and helping them have a career rather than making some money quickly and moving on to the next one. Record company executive Bob Brimson was managing successful Brit pop bands for a little label that got bought by BMG and folded into Arista . Today, he shares his knowledge on touring, how to save a buck while touring, and how to...

Tara Joseph sits down with award-winning LA based composer,  Alexander Bornstein , to talk about his creative processes and projects. He takes us behind the scenes of scoring the upcoming Netflix Original Animated Series, ‘Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy – Siege,’ as well as his previous works with Ray Donovan, Doug Liman, and more. Pointing to the current COVID-19 pandemic we are all expe...

With age come wisdom and sometimes, an almost infinite capacity for kindness towards other people. Having a career as a broadcaster for over two decades has shaped how renowned UK TV and radio presenter, writer and podcaster,  Kate Thornton  sees the world around her. Sitting down with Tara Joseph for a chat, she shares the lessons she has learned from her stellar career in print and broadcast jou...

Jackson Greenberg , a Los Angeles based artist, composer, and producer, honed his craft working on such documentaries as AKA Jane Roe and the Emmy Award-winning Cartel Land, each time creating a whole new musical language that speaks to that particular story. He also famously composed the theme song for Netflix’s Explained series. Apart from composing for documentaries, Jackson spends his time com...

Being an expert in what you do is challenging to achieve without having the drive and passion for what you are doing.  Eric Kalver , music supervisor at Activision Blizzard Games, joins host Tara Joseph to talk about gaming and his experiences working   Activision Blizzard Games . Having grown up a gamer, Eric tells how being able to work with gaming and music is a total dream and has given him an...

Music, often described as food for the soul, when paired with amazing visuals can provide the best stories in life. It is something that people can relate to without the barriers of race, language, distance, and time. The Head of Soundtrack and Score for Global Classics and Jazz and Globe UK of  Universal Music , Holly Adams, talks about the series of experiences she went through that led to her c...

Today Tara Joseph chats to trailblazing leader, innovator and producer, Russell Emanuel, CEO, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder of Bleedings Fingers Music. They discuss how it all began, his creative process and his incredible partnership with the incomparable Hans Zimmer. From scoring iconic shows like The Simpsons to the BBC’S and Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth II, Russell really is a...

When we pursue our dreams, we tend to make that move in our lives all for love. Someone who has done that for love and music is  Josh Piterman , a well-established Australian musical theatre performer and classical crossover artist. In this episode, he joins host, Tara Joseph, to share with us his story—from starting his career and making his mark as Tony in the 2010 Australian production of West...

Let the world stop for a moment as you enter a new beginning. In this episode, producer  Patrick Hamilton  joins Tara Joseph as he shares his story about becoming influential to other artists and his beautiful debut album,  Journey to the Unknown . Patrick talks about the movie he sees passing by while playing his album and how the inspiration for the minimalist pieces was taken from good moments...

What does positive leadership mean and what does a positive leadership coach do? Here to answer these questions with host Tara Joseph is  Barbara Stone , a leader development coach and positive organizational strategist. Barbara shows us how music and therapy can come together to unlock people’s potential, bringing in positivity to their lives. Explaining Dr. Jeremy Hunter’s “four circles,” she al...

Three years ago, Tara Joseph and fellow music manager Tim Byrne, embarked on a project with  Decca Records , UK to find the best baritones and tenors in the world. The result of this endeavor is The Opera Men, a classical crossover quartet handpicked from over 2,000 candidates. Coming to us from all corners of the world are bass baritone,  Georg Festl  from Germany, tenor  David Webb  from the UK,...

In this episode, Charlie Harding, co-host of Switched on Pop, sits down with Tara Joseph to talk about his globally recognized and highly respected music podcast and how they delve deep into the composition and creativity that goes into the creation of popular music. He discusses with us their humble beginnings, the moment they signed their life changing partnership with  Vox.com , and eventually...

There probably is no one who really understands the importance of every person involved in a tour than our guest for today’s episode. Having worn every hat that you can possibly wear on the road, from tour management to catering,  Candice Rukes  of Rukes Entertainment is a force to be reckoned with in this industry—a male-dominated one at that! Here, Candice takes us across her journey in the musi...

What could be a better life than being surrounded by love and music? Tara Joseph’s guest for this episode,  Stefanie Fair  (AKA Stefanie Ridel), has them both, and she is going to share with us her life’s journey that brought her into the world of music and meeting the love of her life. Stefanie is the epitome of the title ‘superwoman’—from actress to popstar, to songwriter, producer, wife, and mo...