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The Saad Haddad ShowBen MorrisBen Morris is a composer and jazz pianist known for blending genres and telling unconventional stories through music. Influenced by his Norwegian heritage, he explored folk music's impact on Norwegian jazz during a Fulbright Grant in Oslo. His debut album, Pocket Guides, received critical acclaim and multiple awards. Beyond jazz, Ben is a versatile composer for film, theatre, and opera, with works performed by top ensembles. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University and holds advanced degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder, Rice University, and the University of Miami.
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The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer Holds On to the Horizons (ft. Patrick O'Malley)Patrick O’Malley is an award-winning composer of symphonic, chamber, and film music. Whether writing for an orchestra or electronic textures, his music embraces abstract worlds and emotions with the goal of igniting listeners’ imaginations. His classical works have been performed across the United States and Europe, and his film music has been heard in several American film festivals. O’Malley has been recognized or performed by organizations including the Albany, Minnesota, Ft. Wayne, and Milwaukee Symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s National Composer Intensive, The ASCAP Morton Gould Award, and The Aaron Copland House Residency. He was named Composer...2024-06-1450 min
Relevant TonesSaad HaddadSaad Haddad is a composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic music who achieves a “remarkable fusion of idioms” (New York Times), most notably in his work exploring the disparate qualities inherent in Western art music and Middle Eastern musical tradition
His music delves into that relationship by transferring the performance techniques of traditional Arabic instruments to Western symphonic instruments, while extending their capabilities through the advancement of technology.
Host Lisa Dell talks with Haddad about his music and recent projects.2024-06-101h 08
The Saad Haddad ShowInfinite Midi Synths, Orchestra Hits, and 8-bit Music (ft. Alex Paxton)Alex Paxton is an award-winning composer and jazz trombonist known for his highly innovative compositions and dynamic performances. His scores, published by Ricordi Berlin, have garnered praise from esteemed sources such as the BBC Magazine and the Financial Times, describing his work as packed with life force and hyperkinetic rainbow-hued joy. Recipient of numerous awards including the Ivor Novello, Paul Hindemith Prize, and Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize, Alex defies genre boundaries with his modern and future-oriented style. His music has been performed internationally by renowned orchestras and ensembles, and he has released critically acclaimed albums like "MUSIC for...2024-05-291h 00
The Saad Haddad ShowComposing as a Cathartic Process (ft. Camila Agosto)An avid collaborator, Camila Agosto is an electroacoustic composer and interdisciplinary artist currently based in New York City. Camila seeks to discover intersections of her work with additional artistic fields through partnerships with other musicians, visual artists, choreographers, instrument builders, and creators. Her projects range from acoustic and electroacoustic concert works and orchestral scores to interdisciplinary projects incorporating visual media and dance, and from solo instruments and larger ensembles to fixed media works. Her music is both fully notated and improvisational and often employs extended instrumental techniques, exhibiting a particular emphasis on the exploration of different timbral and textural...2024-05-1552 min
The Saad Haddad ShowCan Music Foster Change? (ft. Mary Kouyoumdjian)Mary Kouyoumdjian is a composer and documentarian with projects ranging from concert works to multimedia collaborations and film scores. As a first generation Armenian-American and having come from a family directly affected by the Lebanese Civil War and Armenian Genocide, her compositional work often integrates recorded testimonies with resilient individuals and field recordings of place to invite empathy by humanizing complex experiences around social and political conflict. She has received commissions from such organizations as the Kronos Quartet, New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alarm Will Sound, Beth Morrison Projects, and Bang on a Can...2024-05-0145 min
The Saad Haddad ShowTurtle Rhythms, Sloppy Unisons, and Physicality (ft. Carrie Frey)Carrie Frey is a New York City-based violist, teacher, improviser, and composer focused on inquisitive collaborations and encouraging creativity in her students. An enthusiastic proponent of new music, she has premiered over 250 pieces. Frey is the violist of the Rhythm Method (“a group of individuals with distinct compositional voices and a collective vision for the future of the string quartet” - I Care If You Listen) and a founding member of string trio Chartreuse and string quartet Desdemona. She has performed with many of New York City’s notable contemporary ensembles, including Wet Ink Large Ensemble, AMOC*, Talea Ensemble, Wavefi...2024-02-2838 min
Mulheres PositivasPROGRAMA - Nadja Haddad - Apresentadora, jornalista e presidente da ONG Mamas do AmorFabi Saad entrevista Nadja Haddad: apresentadora, jornalista, presidente da ONG Mamas do Amor e engajada em ações sociais.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-02-2629 min
The Saad Haddad ShowVulnerability, Sampling, and Interactive Media (ft. Christian Quiñones)Christian Quiñones is a Puerto Rican composer who explores personal and vulnerable stories through the lens of cultural identity. From sampling to auto-tune, and to interactive multimedia, Christian is interested in interacting with existing music to create intertextual narratives.
Recently Christian was selected as a composer in residence at the Copland House, and as a fellow for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Workshop, Cabrillo Festival, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival. In 2020 he was selected for the Earshot Underwood Orchestra Readings where he worked with the American Composers Orchestra.
He has received co...2024-02-141h 03
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Violinist is "The Living American" (ft. Timothy Schwarz)Since his solo debut with the legendary Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine, violinist Timothy Schwarz has had a brilliant career as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. His many accomplishments include solo and chamber music CD’s under the Naxos, Albany, Centaur and IBM labels. Schwarz served as an Artistic Ambassador for the United States from 1996 – 2001, bringing American music throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. These tours started a decades-long dedication to performing American compositions, with an emphasis on female and minority composers. An avid educator, Schwarz is currently Associate Professor and Head of Strings at Rowa...2024-01-3157 min
The Saad Haddad ShowTonality, the Orchestra, and Ballet (ft. Polina Nazaykinskaya)The music of award-winning composer Polina Nazaykinskaya is performed regularly in the United States, Russia, and Europe. Her first symphonic poem, "Winter Bells," is in high demand every season by orchestras such as the Minnesota Orchestra and the Russian National Orchestra, among others.
In the 2023-2024 concert season, Polina's orchestral music will be performed by the Utah Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Grays Harbor Symphony Orchestra, and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra. In April 2024, Ms. Nazaykinskaya's new ballet for MorDance will be premiered at the Chelsea Factory in New York. In May 2024, Ms. Nazaykinskaya's chamber opera, "Her New Home" will performed at...2024-01-1756 min
Now and Xen075 - Saad HaddadIn this episode, we discuss composition and performance with composer Saad Haddad. One prominent topic - the challenges involved working with orchestras and large ensembles playing microtonal music, and logistics of the industry. We also discuss ideas of east vs. west, style infiltration, using minimal sets of pitches, and maqam. Music: Vortex Temporum - Gérard Grisey Vignettes - Saad Haddad Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad Outro: Aysheen (demo) - Saad Haddad Saad has his own podcast! (check it out): https://www.youtube.com/@saad...2024-01-1247 min
The Saad Haddad ShowDriving Penderecki, Points of Tension, and Hustle (ft. Derek Bermel)Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel has been internationally recognized for his creativity, theatricality, and virtuosity. Bermel is acclaimed for music that is “intricate, witty, clear-spoken, tender, and extraordinarily beautiful [and] covers an amazing amount of ground, from the West African rhythms of Dust Dances to the Bulgarian folk strains of Thracian Echoes, to the shimmering harmonic splendor of Elixir. In the hands of a composer less assured, all that globe-trotting would seem like affectation; Bermel makes it an artistic imperative." (Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle). Bermel and his works have received the Alpert Award in the Arts, Rome Prize, Gug...2024-01-0348 min
The Saad Haddad ShowNoise Don't Quit (ft. Dani Dobkin)A sound artist and composer from Philadelphia, Pa, Dani Dobkin received a BA in Experimental Music and the Electronic Arts from Bard College where she studied under Bob Bielecki, Marina Rosenfeld and Richard Teitelbaum. Always in search of new ways to engage and interact with sound, she works with installation, modular synthesis, handmade circuits, live electronic improvisation, and interdisciplinary projects with dancers, musicians, poets, and visual artists. Dobkin recently received her MFA in Sound Arts from Columbia University and is pursuing her Doctorate in music composition at Columbia.
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💿 “Weavings,” for the Serge modular: http...2023-12-2040 min
The Saad Haddad ShowFounding a New Ensemble, Middle Eastern Music, and the Conservatory (ft. Noémie Chemali)French-Lebanese-American violist Noémie Chemali received her Bachelor’s degree from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, her Artist Diploma from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, and her Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School. Her principal teachers include Becca Albers, Hsin-Yun Huang, and Carol Rodland.
During her time at Juilliard, she made her Carnegie Weill Hall solo debut in the UN Chamber Music Society’s Arabic Language Day concert and collaborated with dancers of the New York City Ballet. During her time at the McDuffie Center for Strings, she performed alongside faculty mem...2023-12-0644 min
Sunday Baroque ConversationsSunday Baroque Conversations 113: Brandon Patrick George 2023Grammy-nominated flutist Brandon Patrick George is a member of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies, American Composers Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, among others. He's also on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. Suzanne spoke with Brandon Patrick George about his debut 2020 solo recording, and welcomed him back in Fall 2023 to talk about his second solo recording, TWOFOLD, which pairs solo flute works by composers such as C.P.E. Bach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Claude Debussy with new works by composers including Reena Esmail, S...2023-12-0527 min
The Saad Haddad ShowFinding Conceit and Humor in Song (ft. Matthew Ricketts)Matthew Ricketts (b. 1986, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer based in New York City. His music moves from extremes of presence and absence, from clamor to quietude, at once reticent and flamboyant. Matthew’s music has been called “lyrical, contrapuntal, rhythmically complex and highly nuanced” (The American Academy of Arts and Letters) and is noted for his “effervescent and at times prickly sounds,” “hypnotically churning exploration of melody” (ICareIfYouListen) as well as its “tart harmonies and perky sputterings” (The New York Times). He is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow.
His works have been performed internationally by JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Flux Quar...2023-11-221h 01
The Saad Haddad ShowMeet My First Composition Teacher (ft. A.J. McCaffrey)A.J. McCaffrey is a songwriter and composer of instrumental, vocal and electronic music. With a background in theater, fine arts and literature, and an upbringing that has fostered a love for a wide variety of musical styles, A.J. writes music that strives to tell a story. His works are theatrical in nature, employing harmonically rich and lyrically striking sound worlds to create moving, dramatic narratives.
Hailed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters as a composer of music “imbued with an extraordinary wit and intelligence”, A.J. received the Academy’s 2014 Goddar...2023-11-0854 min
The Saad Haddad ShowOpera, Electronics, Rhythm, and Teaching Composition (ft. Christopher Cerrone)Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is internationally acclaimed for compositions characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and a flair for multimedia collaborations.
Recent commissions include In a Grove, a new opera co-produced by LA Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, a violin concerto for Jennifer Koh and the Detroit Symphony, an antiphonal brass concerto for the Cincinnati Symphony, a piano concerto for Shai Wosner and the Phoenix and Albany Symphonies, a percussion concerto for Third Coast Percussion, and four works for the LA Philharmonic. His first opera, Invisible Cities, based on Italo Calvino’s novel, was a...2023-11-011h 00
Upbeat LiveSibelius & Swan Lake with Rachel Iba • LA Phil 2023/24Conductor Rachel Iba explains Sibelius & Swan Lake with Saad Haddad.
This talk was given at a performance of Sibelius & Swan Lake at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Pieces discussed:
Saad HADDAD Aysheen
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Selections from Swan Lake
See this year's Upbeat Live schedule at: laphil.com/ubl. Join us in person for our 2023/2024 season! Get tickets: laphil.com/calendar.2023-10-2037 min
The Saad Haddad ShowComposing Between Two Worlds (ft. Chengjin Koh)KOH Cheng Jin is a Singaporean composer, Yang Qin and violin performer currently based in New York. Her music is eclectic and diverse in personalities. As a Chinese and Western trained musician, her works incorporate various influences from these worlds and reflect her passionate enthusiasm in unifying colorful music idioms.
Recently, her work Before Daybreak was premiered at the semifinal rounds of the 2022 Singapore International Violin Competition as the commissioned piece, and her interdisciplinary work Mountain of Echoing Halls for Yangqin and the Ohio-based Verona Quartet and dance, commissioned by Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, was...2023-10-1259 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThe Band-leading Composer (ft. Phillip Golub)Phillip Golub is a composer and pianist based in New York. His musical practice centers around rethinking the rehearsal process as a site of musical sociality and collective creation.
Phillip has released music in numerous formations. He is the co-founder of the collective band Tropos (Axioms // 75ab, Biophilia Records (2020) and Shadow Music, Endectomorph Music (2023)). His solo piano debut Filters (2022), came out to critical acclaim on Greyfade. Phillip is also a member of Layale Chaker’s Sarafand Ensemble (Inner Rhyme, In a Circle Records (2019)). He also has performed numerous times with the Cecil McBee Quartet. He is an ac...2023-10-0552 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Flutist Finds Connections Between the Old and New (ft. Brandon Patrick George)Brandon Patrick George is a leading flute soloist and Grammy®-nominated chamber musician whose repertoire extends from the Baroque era to today. He is the flutist of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies, American Composers Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others. He has been praised as “elegant” by The New York Times, as a“virtuoso” by The Washington Post, and as a “knockout musician with a gorgeous sound” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. His debut album was released by Haenssler Classics in September 2020; The New York Times has described i...2023-09-1758 min
The Saad Haddad Show“I Think About the Listener Constantly” (ft. Timo Andres)Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia premiered at the Barbican by Andres and David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a concerto for Jonathan Biss, which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
As a pianist, Timo Andres has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the A...2023-09-101h 00
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer Has All the Luster (ft. Jared Miller)Described as a “rising star” by MusicWorks magazine, JUNO-Nominated composer Jared Miller has collaborated with the American Composers Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit and New Jersey, The Attacca Quartet, Latitude 49, the New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute and Standing Wave. His music has been presented in the New York Philharmonic Biennial, the ISCM World Music Days, Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival and the Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Orquestas. Since Fall 2022, he has served as an Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts.
🌐 https://jare...2023-08-271h 06
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer Brings Vinyl into the Concert Hall (ft. Charles Peck)Charles Peck is a composer whose work has been called “daring” (Philadelphia Inquirer), “wild and shimmering” (Broad Street Review), and “substantial, personal, genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music). His music, spanning a range of chamber and large ensembles, has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany and Columbus Symphonies, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the JACK Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, and Contemporaneous. Recently awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Peck has also received commissions from the Barlow Endowment, the McKnight Foundation, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Alarm Will...2023-08-1358 min
The Saad Haddad ShowMeet YouTube’s Music Theory Professor (ft. David Bennett Thomas)David Bennett Thomas (b. 1969) is a prolific composer who has composed music for chamber groups, soloists, and choruses around the world. He is also active performing and recording in the jazz realm. Thomas has received commissions, grants, and awards from organizations to release many albums of both classical and jazz music. Thomas also has an active life on YouTube, where his music theory videos and composition videos have millions of views. He teaches composition, theory, and piano at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. For more information, please visit www.davidbthomas.com
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🎼 “Edifice,” for bass clari...2023-08-061h 02
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Violinist Loves New Music (ft. Clara Kim)Adventure and collaboration are at the heart of NYC-based violinist Clara Kim’s multi-faceted career as new music performer, chamber music artist, and educator.
By commissioning, premiering, and championing the works of living composers, Clara has quickly established herself at the forefront of her generation in the interpretation of contemporary music. She has collaborated with some of today’s most celebrated and imaginative musical voices such as Christopher Cerrone, Stephen Hartke, Andrew Norman, Kaija Saariaho, Juri Seo, Chris Theofanidis, and Augusta Read Thomas, and continues to actively premiere works through her solo and chamber music projects. Towards her commissioning effo...2023-07-2352 min
The Saad Haddad ShowColumbia Composers Talk Elitism in New Music, Starting a Business, and More (ft. Emily Praetorius)Emily Praetorius is from Ojai, CA and recently completed her DMA at Columbia University in New York. She is the co-owner of Kuro Kirin Espresso and Coffee. Previously, Emily studied composition and clarinet performance at the University of Redlands (BM) and composition at Manhattan School of Music (MM). Emily has studied with Kathryn Nevin (clarinet), Susan Botti, Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, and Anthony Suter, with additional guidance from Reiko Fueting and Sam Pluta.
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👨🏻🏫 BOOK a 1-on-1 meeting with me directly via this link if you're interested in having a lesson or consultation: https://calendly.com/saadhaddad...2023-07-1657 min
The Saad Haddad ShowSoundtracking Icelandic Glaciers (ft. Fjóla Evans)Fjóla Evans is a Canadian/Icelandic composer and cellist. Her work explores the visceral physicality of sound while drawing inspiration from patterns of natural phenomena. Commissions and performances have come from musicians such as Bang on a Can All-Stars pianist Vicky Chow, Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Her work has been featured on the MATA Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Gaudeamus Music Week, Cello Biennale Amsterdam 2020, Ung Nordisk Musik, and the American Composers Orchestra's SONiC Festival.
As a performer, she has presented her own work at venues such as Cluster Festival of New M...2023-07-0949 min
The Saad Haddad ShowMeet This Hollywood Music Power Couple (ft. Bruce and Belinda Broughton)Husband and wife Bruce and Belinda Broughton have many lifetimes of musical experiences to share between the two of them. Bruce scored many TV shows and movies that you may have heard of, like Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Rescuers Down Under, and most recently, Seth McFarland’s sci-fi series, The Orville. Over the last several decades, he’s also been honing his craft outside the film music world, with pieces like his "Oboe Concerto" and his recent "String Theory," a string orchestral work that focuses on different combinations of string orchestral writing.
His wife, Belinda, has served as the...2023-07-021h 11
The Saad Haddad ShowThe Double Agent of Composition (ft. Daniel Ott)The music of composer Daniel Ott (b. 1975) has been described as “epic and intimate, embracing and overpowering” (The News Tribune), “compelling” (Dance Magazine), and “of considerable artistic seriousness” (MusicWeb International). His work has been heard all over the world, most notably at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Sadler’s Wells, the Musée du Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum, the Fall for Dance Festival in New York’s City Center, as well as throughout Asia and Latin America. Commissions for his work have come from the National Symphony, New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, the Chiara Quartet, and Bargemusic, amo...2023-06-181h 05
The Saad Haddad ShowThe Queen of Graphic Scores is Here (ft. Corie Rose Soumah)Corie Rose Soumah is a composer from Montreal and currently based in New York City.
Her works have been performed in Canada, the U.S, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. Her musical interests lie in shattered sounds realms through collage and gestural practices. She explores sonic textures through acoustic mediums and electronic and analog technologies. Her approach is part of an active redefinition of a new québécitude brought under the influence of cultural, sonic and aesthetic multiplicities.
Winner of a SOCAN Foundation Award, Soumah works have been performed by an extensive number of ensembles and performers. Some of...2023-06-1157 min
The Saad Haddad Show“Whatever Sounds Good is Going to Be Good” (ft. Nina Fukuoka)Born in Osaka, Japan, composer Nina Fukuoka moved to Lodz, Poland at the age of four. She graduated from the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland with a Master’s degree in Theory of Music and Bachelor’s degree in Composition in the class of prof. Zygmunt Krauze. In 2012, she studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium as a participant of the Erasmus Exchange Program with prof. Peter Swinnen, where she continued her education in the Master’s program and graduated with distinction in 2016. In the field of electronic music she has been guided by Krz...2023-05-2853 min
The Saad Haddad ShowMeet Juilliard's Toy-Maker (ft. Ziyi Tao)Ziyi Tao is fascinated by languages and the process of making sense of things, he strives to write more than just music. Currently under the mentorship of Andrew Norman, Ziyi has also been inspired by and worked with many other composers, including Beat Furrer, Marco Momi, Francesco Filidei , Mark Andre, Jon Deak, Molly Herron, Max Grafe, Robert Beaser, and Reiko Füting. Ziyi is interested in exploring the ethical and political potentials of music, hoping to branch out in exploration of hybrid expressions of different ideas through diverse mediums. Ziyi is fortunate to have worked with, and have had h...2023-05-141h 18
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer Makes Music Out of Everything (ft. Uri Kochavi)Uri Kochavi is an Israeli composer, guitar player, and improviser based in New York. He writes music for acoustic instruments, self-made objects, DIY instruments, electronic and electro-acoustic settings. His recent work seeks to challenge the (assumed) nature of every sound generator he writes for, at the meeting point of technology and acoustic sound.
Kochavi is currently a Doctoral Fellow in composition at Columbia University, where he studies primarily with Georg Friedrich Haas, George Lewis, and Annie Gosfield.
Uri’s website: https://urikochavi.com/2023-05-071h 00
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer IS the PVC Piper (ft. Anna-Louise Walton)Anna-Louise Walton is an American composer of chamber, orchestral, and electronic music. In her music, she explores concepts of mimicry, the notation of improvisatory rhythms, and the utilization of household objects such as PVC pipe, shot glasses, and knitting needles.
Anna-Louise’s website: http://www.annalouisewalton.com/2023-04-3052 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThe Most Uncanny Composer of Them All (ft. Artun Çekem)Artun Çekem is a composer born in Istanbul, Turkey. His work primarily deals with the concept of the uncanny, and more particularly, the uncanniness that is latent within anthropomorphic entities. From a sonic perspective, this concept has led him to focus on and spectrally analyze the human voice, with the aim of repurposing it under new, instrumental settings. Through this instrumental resynthesis, he intends to defamiliarize the original source material and capture a liminal zone between what may be perceived as "human" and "non-human".
Artun’s website: https://www.artuncekem.com/2023-04-2358 min
The Saad Haddad Show“It’s small-minded of us to confuse what is good with what we like” (ft. Stephen Lias)The music of adventurer-composer Stephen Lias (b. 1966) is regularly performed in concert and recital throughout the United States and abroad by soloists and ensembles including the Arianna Quartet, the Anchorage Symphony, the Oasis Quartet, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Orchestra, the Ensamble de Trompetas Simón Bolívar, the Boulder Philharmonic, and the Russian String Orchestra. His music is published by Alias Press, and distributed worldwide exclusively by Theodore Presser. His pieces are regularly featured at major national and international conferences including the International Trumpet Guild, the North American Saxophone Alliance, and the ISCM World Music Days. Lias served fo...2023-04-1659 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer is Returning to Her Roots (ft. Sofia Ouyang)Sofia Jen Ouyang (b. 2001) is a composer interested in the intersection and collision of musical, literary, and philosophical concepts. Central to her thinking are concepts, in no particular order: ideologies, binaries, ambiguities, indeterminacies, philosophies, literary theories, physicality, noise, gender, culture, sexuality, music, paradigms, hybridity, distortions, liminalities.
Sofia’s website: https://www.sofiaouyang.com/2023-04-0954 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer Wants You to Remember to Have Fun (ft. Bobby Ge)Bobby Ge (b. 1996) is a Chinese-American composer and avid collaborator who seeks to create vivid emotional journeys that navigate boundaries between genre and medium. He has created multimedia projects with the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Scattered Players Theater Company, painters collective Art10Baltimore, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Winner of the 2022 Barlow Prize, Ge’s current/recent projects include an orchestral work for the youth symphonies of Atlanta, Seattle, New York, and Guangzhou, a First Music commission for the Interlochen Arts Academy and the New York Youth Symphony, a song for Khemia En...2023-04-021h 10
The Saad Haddad ShowComposing Colors for the Orchestra (ft. Nicky Sohn)From ballet to opera to Korean traditional-orchestra, the wide-ranging talent of composer Nicky Sohn is sought after across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Characterized by her jazz-inspired, rhythmically driven themes, Sohn’s work has received praise from international press for being “dynamic and full of vitality” (The Korea Defense Daily), having “colorful orchestration” (NewsBrite), and for its “elegant wonder” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), among many others. As a result, Sohn has enjoyed commissions and performances from the world’s preeminent performing arts institutions, including Stuttgart Ballet, National Orchestra of Korea, St. Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Aspen Philharmonic, and New York Cit...2023-03-191h 10
The Saad Haddad ShowOrbiting the Classical and Scoring Worlds (ft. Patrick O'Malley)Patrick O’Malley is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and media music. He is inspired by mysterious dichotomies in nature and art, writing music that often embraces abstract worlds and emotions rather than concrete images. Through balancing challenging techniques and traditional expression, O’Malley’s goal is to ignite the listener’s imagination and memory in enduring ways. His works have been performed across the United States and also in Europe.
Most recently, O’Malley has been recognized or performed by organizations including the Albany, Minnesota, Ft. Wayne, and Milwaukee Symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s National Composer Int...2023-02-191h 43
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer is Filling Out Her Vision Map (ft. Hannah Kendall)Known for her attentive arrangements and immersive world-building, Hannah Kendall’s music looks beyond the boundaries of composition. Her work bridges gaps between different musical cultures, both honouring and questioning the contemporary tradition while telling new stories through it. Contrasting fine detail with limitless abandon, she has become renowned both as a composer and a storyteller, confronting our collective history with narratively-driven pieces centred on bold mission statements.
Kendall’s recent work has provided a meeting point for different types of music, carrying with it the weight of connected but unharmonised histories. Recently, she’s achieved this by looking beyond...2023-01-291h 28
The Saad Haddad ShowWhy Should We Compose Music? (ft. Joshua Cerdenia)Joshua Cerdenia is a Filipino composer of music for the concert and theater stages, described by renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin as "a composer to watch over the next several years." His works have been commissioned and performed by prominent orchestras in the United States and beyond, such as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, appearing in such venues as Lincoln Center in New York, the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, and the Esplanade in Singapore. Other works have been p...2023-01-081h 03
The Saad Haddad ShowI Was Never Meant to be a Composer (ft. DM R)A native of Bogota, DM R [Diana Rodriguez] is an electroacoustic music composer based in New York City.
Having its footholds in post spectral, ambient, pop culture, Colombian folk, and Rock en Español, their music has been presented by artists such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn Wire, Alarm Will Sound, ECCE Ensemble, counter)induction, Boston Musica Viva, Berrow Duo, Eric Drescher, and Josh Modney at venues like the BANFF Centre for the Arts and Creativity, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the Goethe Institut in Boston, Americas Society, University of North Colorado, the Coral Gables Museum, Boston C...2022-12-251h 36
The Saad Haddad ShowMeet Juilliard's Busiest Composer (ft. Tyson Davis)Tyson Gholston Davis (b.2000) is an American composer in his senior year at The Juilliard School where is a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship studying with Robert Beaser. Davis began composing at the age of eight years old and entered the University North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) as a high school freshman, studying with Lawrence Dillon. In the summer of 2019, Davis worked with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) and Antonio Pappano to premiere his work, Delicate Tension, a piece that was commissioned by the American Embassy in Berlin for...2022-12-041h 11
The Saad Haddad ShowWhat’s Life Like 10 Years AFTER Juilliard? (ft. Gity Razaz)Hailed by the New York Times as “ravishing and engulfing,” Gity Razaz’s music ranges from concert solo pieces to large symphonic works. Ms. Razaz’s music has been commissioned and performed by Seattle Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, National Sawdust, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, former cellist of the Kronos Quartet Jeffrey Zeigler, cellist Inbal Segev, violinist Jennifer Koh, violinist Francesca dePasquale, Metropolis Ensemble, Canada’s National Ballet School, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, New York Choreographic Institute, American Composers Orchestra, and Amsterdam Cello Biennale among others.
Programming highlights include an upcoming commission for acclaimed cellist Alisa Weil...2022-11-211h 19
The Saad Haddad ShowNew York City’s Newest Lebanese Composer (ft. Sami Seif)Sami Seif (b. 1998) is a Lebanese composer and music theorist. His music is inspired by the aesthetics, philosophies, paradigms and poetry of his Middle-Eastern heritage. His work has been described as “very tasteful and flavorful” with “beautiful, sensitive writing!” (Webster University Young Composers Competition). His latest musical concerns center around the phenomenology of time and of differing degrees of focus.
Seif’s music has been performed by such renowned artists as Mary Kay Fink and Stanley Konopka of The Cleveland Orchestra, and has been recognized internationally by a number of institutions such as ASCAP, SOCAN, The RED NOTE New Music Fest...2022-10-2347 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Juilliard Alum Writes Down Nature's Symphony (ft. Alexander Liebermann)From birdsong-inspired compositions to political monodramas, the wide-ranging music of composer Alexander Liebermann is sought after across the United States and Europe. His recent compositions include a climate-change reflecting monodrama commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, a birdsong-inspired string trio commissioned by members of the Staatskapelle Dresden, and a soundtrack for the documentary film Frozen Corpses Golden Treasures.
As a nature enthusiast, Liebermann devotes much of his time to the sounds of wildlife; his original and accurate transcriptions of animal vocalizations are viral on social media and featured in the world-renowned magazine National Geographic. His first book Birdsong: A...2022-10-171h 03
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Juilliard Flutist Moonlights as My Doppelgänger (ft. Joseph Monticello)Flutist Joseph Monticello joins Saad in a wide ranging discussion about our time at Juilliard, Joe's interests in non-Western music, and the direction of concert music going forward.
00:00 Flutist Joseph Monticello serenades Saad's studio
00:10 Saad's eventual wife thought Joe and Saad were the same person at Juilliard
04:55 Getting in touch with our shared Lebanese roots
07:05 On "world music"
09:16 Playing the Japanese shamisen, Persian tar, and oud as a conservatory-trained flutist
16:25 Instruments crafted for you vs. factory-made instruments
20:02 Why does everyone want a gold flute?
22:10 Connecting with music via touch
24:48 Does life experience affect playing?
26:41 Why the world premiere is...2022-10-0253 min
The Saad Haddad ShowMeet the Haddad TripletsIt’s a rare occurrence when all my brothers are in one place. We are in my new production studio at my new house in New Jersey. I hope you enjoy our conversation with the guys in the world I’ve known the longest!
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The Saad Haddad ShowThis Princeton Composer Wants to Turn Your Feet Around (ft. Nina Shekhar)Nina Shekhar has recently been named Young Concert Artists’ 2021-23 Composer-in-Residence, which follows my own 2-year residency in this post. Join me as we discover what drives Nina to create music, as well as hear a sampling of her work.
00:00 Introducing Nina Shekhar
08:53 Expressing OCD through “Quirkhead”
13:56 Excerpt from “Quirkhead”
14:55 How did music boxes inspire “hush”?
21:08 Excerpt from “hush”
22:55 Why should we paint our toenails red in “DEAR ABBY”?
27:45 Excerpt from “DEAR ABBY”
31:45 Should contemporary music be fun? (“Turn Your Feet Around”)
38:03 Excerpt from “Turn Your Feet Around”
43:10 Where do you see your work going in 5 years?
49:43 What do you look forward to this upcoming...2021-09-2453 min
The Saad Haddad ShowThis Composer Pens Blockbuster Films and Classical Concertos (ft. James Newton Howard)James Newton Howard has scored over 100 major films, including "Signs," "King Kong," "Pretty Woman," "The Sixth Sense," as well as this year's "Jungle Cruise" and "Raya and the Last Dragon." Lately, he's been delving into writing music without any picture at all. In this 3-part series, we will dive into James' output for the concert hall, including his orchestral fantasy, "I would plant a tree," "Violin Concerto," and his sextet "They have just arrived at this new level." This discussion was filmed at James Newton Howard's studio in Los Angeles in July 2021.
https://jamesnewtonhoward...2021-08-1340 min
StocktonAfterClassIsraeli-Palestinian Conflict 18. Beirut's Sabra and Shatilla Massacre. Israel's Kahan Commission ReportSend us a textIn September, 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Israeli army took control of West Beirut and the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatillah. Bashir Gemayel, the leader of the Phalangist movement (Kataeb in Arabic), had just been assassinated. He had supported the Israelis in their invasion, hoping to free his land of the PLO and of Syrian domination. The individual convicted of the assassination was a Christian. He claimed he had acted because of Gemayel’s support of Israel. Many people think Syria was behind the attack. Gemayel’s followers we...2021-06-0642 min
"After Talk" with OMATC Music Series"After Talk" with Christina Haddad "Hello like before" Episode 10Upward and Onward Productions Presents, "Our Meeting at the Crossroads" music series. 2nd segment "Hello like Before" with our Host Darren Lorenzo. The Artist for the week is, Christina Haddad. This particular episode, touches on the journey of a popular powerhouse vocalist in Lebanon. Join us every week for more Artist and Music, from our series. Christina Haddad is from Beirut, Lebanon, but lives in Mont-Liban, Lebanon. A Professional Singer known for her Charismatic Performance and Powerful Voice. She performs International Pop Songs from the 60's till up-to-date hits. Follow her updates to watch her perform...2020-11-1200 min
Global QuestionsIN-DEPTH: Saad Al-Haddad - What is it like fleeing war? - 2/2Saad AL-Haddad was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He and his family decided to flee Iraq in 2016 as it became too dangerous to live. As the war started to worsen they received targeted threats and found it increasingly difficult to continue their usual lives in Baghdad. Saad and his family resettled in Jordan for two years whilst waiting on their Australian refugee status approval. We explore his life as a refugee, the hardship he and his family faced and his plans for the future.
Growing up, Saad received most of his education from Amala Education (formally known as...2020-04-2718 min
Global QuestionsIN-DEPTH: Saad Al-Haddad - What is it like fleeing war? - 1/2Saad AL-Haddad was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He and his family decided to flee Iraq in 2016 as it became too dangerous to live. As the war started to worsen they received targeted threats and found it increasingly difficult to continue their usual lives in Baghdad. Saad and his family resettled in Jordan for two years whilst waiting on their Australian refugee status approval. We explore his life as a refugee, the hardship he and his family faced and his plans for the future.
Growing up, Saad received most of his education from Amala Education (formally known as S...2020-04-1421 min
IhsanInstitute Podcastsيا نفس إن لم تظفري لا تجزعي- الإمام علي الحبشي- بصوت أحمد سعد الأزهريImam Al-Haddad's Ya Nafsu recorded by Shaykh Ahmed Saad2016-11-1604 min