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Hosted by William King · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 28 episodes
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A podcast featuring interviews with people who write music. How do composers start new pieces? How do they take an idea and develop into a work of art? In Remain Composed, we meet people writing different kinds of music, at different stages in their careers, to find out what influences them and how their processes work.
William King hosts Remain Composed, a music show with 28 episodes published.
Vivek Haria is, broadly speaking, a chartered accountant by day and a composer by night. He tells Remain Composed about what overlap there is between his two fields. Vivek tells us about the new song cycle about rivers h
Anna Clyne is a GRAMMY-nominated and Ivor Novello Award-winning composer. She is one of the world's most in-demand living composers. Anna tells Remain Composed about the relationship between music and visual arts. She of
Cameron Biles-Lidell is a composer based in North Wales. He tells Remain Composed he enjoys writing programme music, often based on landscapes or landmarks, and he also writes absolute music. He says he’s always thinking
Chloe Knibbs is a composer currently studying for a PhD at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. In her work, she explores ways of being inspired by historical women composers. Chloe tells Remain Composed about writing her
This episode focuses on AI, with Tom Collins , who is an associate professor of music engineering technology at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. We discuss how AI tools make music, whether they're a
Sarah Henderson is a composer, soprano and cellist preparing to study an MA in composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Sarah tells Remain Composed about the places she takes inspiration from - ranging from the Bible t
Philip Stopford is a composer and choral trainer based in Leighton Buzzard. His music has taken him from Truro to New York via Oxford, Canterbury, Belfast and Chester. He gives Remain Composed his thoughts for others loo
Debbie Wiseman has more than 200 film and TV credits. She’s Classic FM’s composer in residence, and last year she won the Ivor Novello Award for outstanding contribution to screen composition. Debbie tells Remain Compose
Matthew Warren is a composer and researcher. He's currently preparing for the premiere of an opera he's written in Manx Gaelic. He tells Remain Composed it's the first opera that's been written in the language. Matthew s
Precious Akindele is a composer, pianist and organist. She’s been studying at the BRIT School, whose alumni include Adele, Amy Winehouse and Jessie J, and will begin studying composition at Trinity Laban in September. Sh
Frederick Viner is a composer, pianist and Youtuber based in York. He tells Remain Composed that parameters are his friends when composing, and if a commissioner hasn’t provided any, he quickly works some out for himself
Sally Beamish has written nearly 300 works including concertos, ballets, vocal and chamber music. She says music is how she expresses her emotions. Much of her output focuses on the environment, the sea and other element
Gavin Higgins is a composer working with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Three Choirs Festival and many other ensembles and projects. Wind, brass and percussion are central to Gavin’s orchestral music. He says he lo
Sophie Daniels is a songwriter and an associate professor of songwriting at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, where she founded the UK’s first higher education programmes in songwriting. Sophie explains wh
Zygmund de Somogyi is a composer and music journalist. Zygmund describes their music as irreverent and eclectic. They’ve written for chamber ensembles, orchestra, stage, film and much more. Much of Zygmund’s work is comp
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Melanie Spanswick is a pianist, author, teacher and composer. She’s a piano faculty member at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Eton College, and she’s a regular contributor to Pianist Magazine. She tells Remai
Thomas James Owen is in the early days of his compositional career. Thomas has always been curious about how and why music can evoke emotions. Thomas says he’s learnt to not imitate other composers, but he does sometimes
Dawn Walters has written vocal settings of all of Shakespeare’s songs, and many of his sonnets. She explains how she discovered her love of Shakespeare - and tells us how that project started and grew. Dawn says her idea
David Lowe has composed many of British television's most iconic theme tunes including BBC News, The One Show and Grand Designs. David tells Remain Composed about his beginnings in local radio, and how buying a polyphoni
Matthew Warren
Consultant Gastroenterologist · Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
1 appearance on this show
David Lowe
Actor, Coach, Casting Professional
1 appearance on this show
Sophie Daniels
Institute of Contemporary Music Performance
1 appearance on this show
David Lancaster
York St John University
1 appearance on this show
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Remain Composed is hosted by William King. The show is categorised under music (interviews) and has published 28 episodes.
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