Theorist Composer Collaboration
The Theorist Composer Collaboration is a podcast interview series highlighting modern composers and music theorists. With guests ranging from freelance composers, graduate students, and tenured professors, the TCC is a space of discourse and discussion between the similar but the often separated fields of music theory and composition, bringing together modern musical analysis and practice.
Episodes
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features music theorist Professor J. Daniel Jenkins. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Jenkins about his background, time as a regional conference president, the past and future of public music theory and much more!
Professor Jenkins contact:
Website: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/faculty-staff/Jenkins.php
Email: dannyjenkins@sc.edu
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This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Robert Gross and his piece Penumbra. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Gross about his background, various music occupations, several technical approaches to composition and much more!
Dr. Gross contact:
Website: newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/penumbra
Email: rgrosscomposer@gmail.com
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This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Carolina Heredia and her piece Resonancia Natural. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Heredia about her background, multidisciplinary composition, sonic connections with nature and much more!
Dr. Heredia contact:
Website: https://www.carolinaheredia.com/
Email: caro@carolinaheredia.com
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This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features Professor of Composition Roshanne Etezady. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Etezady about her background, journey to professorship, evolution of her compositional work, today’s graduate students and much more!
Professor Etezady contact:
Website: https://www.roshanne.com/
Email: roshanne.etezady@gmail.com
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This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the music theorist Professor Noriko Manabe. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Manabe about her background, career journey, the relevance of protest scholarship, Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl performance, the future of music theory and much more!
Professor Manabe contact:
Website: https://www.norikomanabe.com/
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This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Amelia Brey and her piece Becoming Tangible. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Brey about her background, process of composition, music philosophy and much more!
Dr. Brey contact:
Email: ameliabrey@proton.me
Website: ameliabrey.wordpress.com
Donate to the TCC:
https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features Dr. Francisco Javier de Alba and Professor Nadine Silverman for a TCC Roundtable on composition festivals and competitions. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Paco and Professor Silverman about accessibility, the benefits of networking, career development, institutional improvements and much more!
Dr. de Alba contact page: https://www.tccollaboration.com...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the music theorist and former SMT president Professor Michael Buchler. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Buchler about his background, the current political state of the university system, what really should not be political, the safety of international students, the future of the Society for Music Theory and much more!
Dr. Buchler contact: mbuchler@fs...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Emelia Ulrich and her piece Vigil. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Emelia about her background, philosophy in music, the piece Vigil, the place of music theory in composition and much more!!
Emelia contact: emeliaulrich@me.com
Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration
Citation from episode: Bourne, Janet. “5. Topic Theory an...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features Josh Henderson and Mikael Darmanie of the group W4RP Trio alongside their group’s recent collaboration with artist LiKWUiD, Sermon of the MatriarK. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Josh and Mikael about their background, process of collaboration on Sermon of the Matriark, creating art in the current political atmosphere, bridges outside academia, and much...
This episode marks the one-year anniversary of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast! Host Aaron D’Zurilla recaps the past year, lessons learned, the next steps in content, life in general, and the special reveal of the TCC Theme, commissioned from and composed by Will Davenport!
Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration
A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding epi...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the music theorist Professor Táhirih Motazedian alongside her award-winning book Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Motazedian about her background as a NASA planetary scientist, work as a music theorist, Key Constellations, the future of the Society for Music Theory and much more!
Key Constellations: http...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the composer Isabella Temperville and her album The Recusant’s Dream. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Isabella about her interests, catch up with her since the last time on the podcast, discussing her master’s thesis, further work constructing the multimedia project in The Recusant’s Dream and much more!
Isabella contact:
Email: bellatempmusic@gmail.com
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the artist Purple Kloud and tracks from his album HUGO. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Purple Kloud about his background, the genre of “Pyrofuzz”, his writing and recording process, the album HUGO, the southern music scene, differences between the industry and academia, and much more!
Purple Kloud contact:
HUGO Streaming:
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the composer Quinn Mason alongside his piece A Joyous Trilogy. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Quinn about his background, finding success in collaboration, writing for orchestra, textural storytelling, the potential of modern music theory and much more!
Quinn website:
https://www.masonianmusic.com/
Donate to the TCC:
https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the composer Will Davenport and his piece Concerto for 6 String Electric Violin. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Will about his year in composition, reflections on graduate studies, writing a masters thesis, orchestrating electric strings, composing large pieces, and how to get the most out of academic study.
Will contact:
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the artist Alivia Hunter alongside her songs, Clementine, You wouldn’t believe, and Icarus. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla discusses with Alivia her background, writing process, cultural inspirations, the folk music scene, narrative subversions in lyrics, and her perspective on music theory.
Alivia contact:
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This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast is a TCC Roundtable, with today’s topic being Women in Composition. Featuring the composers Mary Denney and Ky Nam Nguyen, we discuss their own experiences, historical and current discrimination, genuine representation, and ways to create a more open and equitable field.
Mary Denney contact: https://www.tccollaboration.com/guests/mary-denney/
Ky Nam Nguyen contact: https:/...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Katherine Bergman and her piece Land of Cloud Tinted-Water. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla discusses with Katherine her background, evoking natural landscapes, field research, writing for percussion ensembles, and composing for both educational and professional settings
Katherine contact:
Website: https://www.katherinebergman.net/
Instagram: https://www...
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features Dr. Francisco Javier de Alba and his piece Uncharted. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla discuss with Dr. “Paco” de Alba his background, diverse musical influences, career anxiety, expression in music, and the directions of modern composition.
Dr. de Alba contact:
Website: https://www.fjdmusic.com/
Email: contact@fjdmusic.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pacodeal...
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