I Worked With 100+ Composers and Learned This

How to Land Your First Orchestral Commission (Step-by-Step)

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I Got This Composer Commissioned to Prove It’s Not Luck

I Showed 3 Composers How to Get Their Music Concert-Ready

I studied 1000 compositions, here's why they don't get performed

I Wish I Knew THIS About Getting Commissioned as a Composer

I Studied 1000 Composers, This Stops Them From Getting Commissioned

How I’d Become a Concert Composer in 2025 (If I Were Starting Over)

How to Develop Your Own Harmonic Voice as a Composer

7 Lessons I Learned from Mentoring 100+ Concert Composers

How a Bookstore Owner Keeps His Composition Dream Alive

The Problem with Microtonal Orchestration (And How to Solve It)

Why Writing for Choir is a Unique Challenge (and How to Do It Well)

Fantasia for Strings (DEMO recording)

5 Hour Composition Masterclass

Tasalsul II (ft. Parker Ramsay, harp)

3 Hours of Composition Lessons

Pro Composers Judge Your String Quartets

How to Sell Your Sheet Music Online

Send Us Your String Quartets!

How I Wrote This Microtonal Fanfare

Mishwar, a fanfare for orchestra (DEMO recording)

A Day in the Life of a Music Professor

Top 7 Schools for Music Composition in the U.S.

10 Essential Tools for Composers

How to Prepare Titles Pages for Scores

Pro Composers Judge Your Orchestral Scores

Tasalsul I, for flute (ft. Brandon Patrick George)

How to Write for String Orchestra

13 Books for Composers

Is Contemporary Classical Music in Decline?

How I Study This Microtonal Madrigal

How to Notate Aleatoric Music

How I Composed This Sextet

Selig Licht (ft. ensemble hand werk)

How I Study Bach Chorales

How Much Money I Made as a Composer in 2023

Unboxing My LA Phil Parts!

Takht, for sinfonietta (ft. UT Austin New Music Ensemble)

How Can Composers Deal With Writer’s Block?

How I Wrote This Piano Concerto

How To Print and Bind Music Scores

3 Composition Programs You Didn't Know About

How I Wrote This String Quartet

The WORST Review I've Ever Had (ft. "Aysheen," for the LA Phil)

LA Phil violinist demonstrates techniques from "Aysheen"

Here's what surprised me about the first “Aysheen” rehearsal

“Aysheen” rehearsals begin…

EXPOSING the Beginning of My Compositional Process

How I composed THIS for the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Aysheen, for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (DEMO recording)

This Flutist Finds Connections Between the Old and New (ft. Brandon Patrick George)

“I Think About the Listener Constantly” (ft. Timo Andres)

Extended Interview: Saad Haddad and the Gaudeamus Festival

This Composer Has All the Luster (ft. Jared Miller)

Ta’amolan, for wind quintet (ft. Imani Winds)

Classical Composers Discuss Whether Competitions Affect Their Voice

Classical Composer Explains Sul Ponticello

This Composer Brings Vinyl into the Concert Hall (ft. Charles Peck)