An accomplished composer and electric guitarist, D.J. Sparr has caught the attention of critics with his eclectic style, described as “pop-Romantic… iridescent and wondrous” (Mercury News) and “suits the boundary erasing spirit of today’s new-music world” (New York Times). The Los Angeles Times praises him as “an excellent soloist” and the Santa Cruz Sentinel says that [...]
Ben Wysocki is a drummer, song writer, and producer based in Denver, CO. He is a member of the rock band The Fray signed with Epic Records. In this interview Ben discusses with Garrett aspects of songwriting and collaboration. Website: www.thefray.net Recommended Music: The Beatles, Abbey Road Recommended Books: Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows [...]
Frank La Rocca is a composer of contemporary art music, especially sacred choral music. Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and U.C. Berkeley, he came to see modernism as a barrier to free musical expression and spent many years in search of a personal creative language. Drawing upon influences as [...]
Nathan Kelly is an LA-based composer and orchestrator. He has studied and worked in nine artist residencies across the country and overseas as a Visiting Artist & Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, producing one hundred solo works for piano and a long list of orchestral, and chamber music pieces that strive to expand [...]
Robert Paterson is a NYC-based composer who continues to gain attention here and abroad for writing “vibrantly scored and well-crafted” music that “often seems to shimmer” (NewMusicBox). His works are praised for their elegance, wit, structural integrity, and a wonderful sense of color, and Paterson was named The Composer of The Year at Carnegie Hall from the Classical Recording Foundation [...]
Nicholas Deyoe is a Los Angeles based composer, conductor, and guitarist, and is the Co–Founder and Artistic Director of the wasteLAnd concert series. His music has been called “intriguingly complex and excitedly lush” by the LA Times. He has been listed on NPR’s 100 Composers Under 40. Drawn to sounds that are inherently physical, Nicholas [...]
