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Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds of the composers making some of the most innovative and breathtakingly beautiful music today.
Paul Simon has always been attracted to new kinds of sounds. From his early band Simon & Garfunkel in the 1960s through solo albums like Gra...
We began last week’s episode digging into the music of one particular electronic musician - the synthesist, producer and composer Kaitlyn Au...
What happens when a composer writes music without pen and paper, using machines? How does that change the creative process? How does it morp...
For today’s Bonus Track, we’re thrilled to bring you the world-premiere recording of Bryce Dessner’s Wires , performed by Ensemble Intercont...
It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pull...
Henry Threadgill’s music and community can’t be separated; there is no boundary: challenge and failure and growth in music are the same as c...
1967, Fort Riley, Kansas. Henry Threadgill is 23 years old. Knowing he’s going to be drafted into the military, he joins the Army Concert Ba...
Today's bonus track is an exclusive arrangement of a nutso, sci-fi-y electronic piece John Adams wrote in 1993. Originally part of a larger...
What happens when the composer shows up to the first rehearsal of his brand-new piece? Would a living Beethoven sue for intellectual propert...
Today's Bonus Track is an extended cut of Pauline Oliveros' "Tuning Meditation," recorded live at the Fuentidueña Chapel at the Met Cloister...
We continue our investigation of the odd, wrong-side-of-the-tv-set role of The Performer with a deep dive into the "Sonic Meditations" of pi...
We are thrilled to bring you a WORLD PREMIERE recording as our first bonus track of Season Three! Our previous episode, The Performer: Part...
We're kicking off Season Three with a look beyond the composer to the performer, that unusual intermediary between the artist and the audien...
We conclude the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the legendary, charismatic Leonard Bernstein. Though m...
A blast from the past featuring the composer Libby Larsen. Larsen explains how living in Minneapolis facilitated her success as a composer,...
Otto Luening was a forefather of experimental electronic music and a life-long educator, flutist and composer. In this 1985 interview with h...
We continue the week-long ramp-up to our next and third season with an interview with the widely influential patriarch of 20th-century exper...
As we build up to the launch of our third season next Monday, we thought we'd look back at the original WNYC radio program Meet the Composer...
Help us make a third season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast about the creative musical process, with host Nadia Sirota. Learn more abou...
I'm so excited to share today's Meet the Composer bonus track with you. Last October, I traveled to Detroit to perform the US premiere of Ni...
First, a disclaimer. I wanna make something clear right off the bat here: I'm completely in the tank for Nico Muhly. We went to college toge...
This week’s Meet the Composer Bonus Track is a world premiere recording of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s piano work Scape . Scape , like many of An...
Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound, surrounding the listener in a dark and forbi...
Today's MTC bonus track is a WORLD PREMIERE! Or, apropos of its October release, we might call it a movement brought back from the dead. Thi...
Ingram Marshall is often called a California Minimalist, a title which, while not exactly geographically accurate, allies him with a loose c...
I'm thrilled this week to give you a sneak peek of a new Q2 Music podcast called LPR Live coming out this Fall. It's hosted by Conor Hanick,...
I am so thrilled to bring you this Meet the Composer Bonus Track! We are extremely lucky to present this recording of Kaija Saariaho's piano...
Kaija Saariaho's music evokes all sorts of natural sounds, the kinds of complex, white noise-y sounds that we often tune out. She's able to...
I am absolutely thrilled to present this week's bonus track, an exclusive in-studio performance of Meredith Monk's transcendent string quart...
Living legend Meredith Monk is a composer, vocalist, dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. While all of these descriptors are technically on...
Season Two is just around the corner, but we need your help to make it happen. Learn about our next five featured composers and support Meet...
Building on a long-standing collaborative relationship, Marcos Balter wrote Intercepting a Shivery Light for the Anubis Quartet, a saxophone...
For Marcos Balter , stellar composition requires the dedicated, daily practice of an athlete. He doesn't think it possible to unearth and ho...
In 2012, the Grammy award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus commissioned the the future Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw to write a...
Caroline Shaw began her love affair with music at the age of two, when her mom started teaching her violin. Throughout her childhood, Caroli...
In 1844, Asenath Nicholson, a school teacher, reformer and proprietor of an all-vegetarian boarding house in New York City, travelled to Ire...
Donnacha Dennehy is an Irish composer who thought he was going to study with spectral icon Gérard Grisey in Paris. When he showed up, howeve...
Andrew Norman was a well-feted kid composer, a precocious pre-adolescent who wrote works with grand, filmic gestures for his middle school o...
Gordon Wright , the Alaskan composer, conductor, professor and environmentalist, was John Luther Adams's best friend. When he died suddenly...
Q2 Music celebrated the launch of its inaugural podcast, Meet the Composer, on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 pm with a music party and live video we...
John Luther Adams made all of the wrong career decisions. He got kicked out of multiple high schools, went to the "wrong" college, never fin...