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The Portfolio Composer
by Garrett Hope presents The Portfolio Composer
Mastering the business of composition through mindset, marketing, and business skills.
Episodes
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Glory St. Germain on Why You ARE a Business
Glory St. Germain is the founder and CEO of Ultimate Music Theory, a TEDx Speaker, an international bestselling author with over fifty books, a host of global music teachers summits, and an expert coach & creator of the UMTC Elite Educator Program. Her passion for teaching excellence sets a new...
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Chris Alvarado on Making Music is Running a Business Part 2
Luthier, singer-songwriter, and business owner Chris Alvarado makes finely-crafted boutique guitars in the Florida panhandle. After serving in the military, Chris became one of the most in-demand performers along Florida's Emerald Coast. He now runs Driftwood Guitars full-time and creates regular...
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Chris Alvarado on Making Music is Running a Business Part 1
Luthier, singer-songwriter, and business owner Chris Alvarado makes finely-crafted boutique guitars in the Florida panhandle. After serving in the military, Chris became one of the most in-demand performers along Florida's Emerald Coast. He now runs Driftwood Guitars full time and creates regular...
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Heidi Kay Begay on Being Your Own Boss
Dr. Heidi Kay Begay is a self-employed flutist, educator, podcaster, and non-profit organizer. She is the creator of the Flute 360 podcast, which delivers educational content, to the modern-day flutist, through various platforms. Since 2018, the podcast has produced over 200 episodes, received…
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Jeffrey Neavor on Building a Financial Plan
Jeffrey Neavor works as a financial advisor after 22 years as a music educator. Jeff has focused on planning for music educators, composers, and freelance creators. Jeff's bands won 14 straight Illinois State Marching Championships, performed at multiple state conventions and festivals, were...
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Joseph Sowa on The Career Success Spell Book
Joseph Sowa draws from diverse influences to create music of detailed textures and vivid colors. His works have been played and commissioned by groups like PRISM Quartet, Hub New Music & the Genesis Chamber Singers and in sacred and educational settings. He is on the executive board of the Music...
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Danielle Kuntz on The Toolbox Sessions and Writing for Harp
As a new music harpist, Danielle Kuntz is dedicated to bringing new music to life. She has focused her career on connecting living composers with new audiences by commissioning them and performing their music. Danielle also works to make the harp a more accessible instrument for composers through...
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Mark Herschberg on The Career Toolkit
Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Educated at MIT, Mark has spent his career launching and fixing new ventures at startups, Fortune 500s, and academia. He's developed new software languages, online marketplaces, new...
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Ep 245-Daniel Kellogg on Why Composers Make Great Leaders
Composer Daniel Kellogg discusses why composers make great leaders, the Young Concert Artists, the creative process, and how to identify which skills you need to develop.
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Ep 244-Dorico 4 with Daniel Spreadbury and Jason Heath
Daniel Spreadbury, who is part of the development team for Dorico at Steinberg, and Jason Heath of the Double Bass Conversations podcast join Garrett to discuss Dorico 4, a major new update to the engraving software. This episode is sponsored by Dorico by Steinberg, the future of scoring. Visit...
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Ep 243-The Ultimate Music Business Summit
The Ultimate Music Business Summit (January 6–8, 2022) is a three-day conference with over thirty presentations, 1:1 Speed Networking sessions, live Q & A with the presenters, and a keynote by Dr. Drew X Coles. The presentations cover a WIDE spectrum of business-related topics and are full of...
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Ep 242-Ric Flauding on Having the Big Picture
Ric Flauding was an accomplished arranger, orchestrator, composer, conductor, and producer. Over the course of his career he wored with The London Symphony, the Nashville Recording Orchestra, the Prague Strings, the Fort Worthy Symphony, and many LA recording ensembles. He wrote for, and arranged...
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Ep 241-Nainita Desai on Blurring the Line Between Sound Design & Composing
Nainita Desai is an award-winning composer for film and media. Her recent projects include the critically acclaimed Oscar 2000 nominated film For Sama, Sundance 2020 winning feature The Reason I Jump, Netflix' most-watched documentary feature to date, American Murder, and the Annapurna…
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Ep 240-Amelia Warner on Manifesting Opportunity and Scoring Wild Mountain Thyme
Amelia Warner is an English actress turned composer. She began her music career releasing music under the name Slow Moving Millie. Her film credits include Mary Shelley and Wild Mountain Thyme. This episode is sponsored by Dorico by Steinberg, the future of scoring. Visit www.steinberg.net/tpc…
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Ep 239-Rebekka Karijord & Jon Ekstrand on Collaboration and Empathy
Rebekka Karijord is a composer and musician originally from Sandnessjøen, just south of the arctic circle in Northern Norway. Over the course of her career she has composed music for over 30 films, modern dance performances and theatrical pieces, as well as released six solo albums under her own...
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Ep 238-Jeremy Turner on Choosing Your Own Adventure
Composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Turner is known for creating innovative and diverse music for the moving image and the stage. He is a two time EMMY nominee, has won the Music + Sound Award, the International Documentary Association Award, the AICP Award, and has been named…
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Ep 237-Jackson Greenberg on Not Settling
Jackson Greenberg is a Philadelphia born, Los Angeles based musician, producer, and composer of music for Film, Television and concert ensembles. After graduating with a degree in Music from Princeton University and a graduate degree from University of Southern California Thornton School of…
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Ep 236-James Sizemore on Showing Up & Being Confident
James Sizemore is a New York based composer, orchestrator, and producer with notable credits in film and television. James' projects range from producing the score to the Oscar winning film Spotlight, orchestrating the Hobbit Trilogy, and contributing music to such films as A Dog's Purpose and...
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Ep 235 - Joseph Sowa on Owning Your Voice
Joseph Sowa draws from diverse influences to create music of detailed textures and vivid colors. His works have been played and commissioned by groups like PRISM Quartet, Hub New Music & the Genesis Chamber Singers and in sacred and educational settings. He is on the executive board of the Music...
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Ep 234-Jim Ginsburg on Cedille Records and Making Records Collectible
Jim Ginsburg is the founder and president of Cedille Records. He oversees all of Cedille's releases and produces a majority of them. Cedille Records has grown to be one of Chicago's greatest ambassadors of classical music, garnering 18 Grammy nominations and six Grammy Awards for its recordings.…
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Ep 233-Jason Graves on Investing in Your Career for the Long Term
Jason Graves is a two-time British Academy Award-winning composer renowned for his textural concept scores and innovative orchestration in cinematic games such as The Dark Pictures Anthology, Moss, Tomb Raider, and more. His repertoire is truly diverse, from aleatoric and sweeping orchestral...
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Ultimate Music Business Summit—Direct Message
musicsummit.biz 2020 Has Been A Struggle… And Everything Has Changed! The creative industries have been decimated in 2020. And still we've fought through the fear and failures. We've tested pivot after pivot and we've discovered strategies that work. We want to provide you with a shortcut to...
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Matt Morton on The Composer as Producer
Matt Morton is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer/producer from Columbus, OH. He started on the guitar at age 9 and went on to learn the bass, piano, drums, mandolin, cuatro, charango, ukulele, banjo, and cello. His feature-length scores include the multiple...
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Dealing with Anxiety
Anxiety is a pernicious bedfellow. So many of us—especially creatives—live it with constantly. It will eat you up inside. You don't have to live this way. Here's a short lesson on how. This episode is sponsored by Dorico by Steinberg, the future of scoring. Visit www.steinberg.net/tpc for a free...
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Kickstarter Miniseries: Christopher Tin on To Shiver The Sky Part 3
Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning concert, film, and video game composer. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Disney Concert Hall, and many other venues. His recent Kickstarter campaign became the highest grossing Classical Music campaign...
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Kickstarter Miniseries: Christopher Tin on To Shiver The Sky Part 2
Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning concert, film, and video game composer. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Disney Concert Hall, and many other venues. His recent Kickstarter campaign became the highest grossing Classical Music campaign...
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Kickstarter Miniseries: Christopher Tin on To Shiver The Sky Part 1
Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning concert, film, and video game composer. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Disney Concert Hall, and many other venues. His recent Kickstarter campaign became the highest grossing Classical Music campaign...
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Ep 231-Ben Lovett on Don't Let Not Knowing Stop You
Ben Lovett is a current American recording artist, film composer, songwriter, and producer from Georgia. He is the founder of the record label Lovers Label. His non-film compositions are released under the names LOVETT and Lovers & Friends. He has won several awards, including Best Score for "The...
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Ep 230-Ingrid Martin on Conducting Artistry
Conductor Ingrid Martin discusses her new online resource Conducting Artistry and why it's so important to get to know the people who will choose, conduct, and perform your music. Ingrid Martin is an Australian conductor. She is passionate about helping conductors be better leaders, musicians…
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Ep 229-Drum & Lace and Ian Hultquist on The Business of Collaboration
Drum & Lace is an Italian composer and performer that creates music for film, tv and media. Her live performances oscillate between electronica & chamber music, often with spatial audio elements. Ian Hultquist is an American Film Composer who has made a name for himself scoring films, tv and...
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Ep 228-Amy Gordon on Building a Her Business
Amy Gordon is a composer, arranger, singer-songwriter, and vocalist in Los Angeles, CA. She is an active choral composer, including being the composer-in-residence for Nova Vocal Ensemble. Her music has been described as melodic and accessible, yet with surprising harmonic twists. This episode is...
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Ep 227-The Most Popular Episodes of 2019
It's the fourth anniversary of The Portfolio Composer. And every anniversary I take a look back at the previous year's most popular episodes. These episodes are the most downloaded episodes of the previous year. This episode is sponsored by Dorico by Steinberg, the future of scoring. Visit...
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Ep 226-Angela Beeching on The Importance of Mindset and Beyond Talent
Angela Myles Beeching is a music career coach who helps musicians get more of their best work out into the world — so they can finally become the artists they are meant to be. Ms. Beeching is the former director of career and entrepreneurship programs at Manhattan School of Music, Indiana...
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Ep 222-Lillie Harris on The Green Copyist
This episode is sponsored by Dorico by Steinberg, the future of scoring. Visit www.dorico.com/tpc for a free 30-day trial version. Join The Portfolio Composer community and support the creation of the platform on Patreon. Just $1/month to enable the creation of more great content to help you…
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Ep 221-Chad Hobson on Paying Your Dues and Finding Freedom
Chad Hobson is a British composer with impressive credentials in film and award-winning television. His work in film includes a wide range of genres, from gritty urban dramas like Adulthood (Noel Clarke), Epic fantasy like Stardust (Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer), to most recently HBO's…
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Ep 220-Herdís Stefánsdóttir on The Sun is Also a Star
Herdís Stefánsdóttir is a composer of music for multimedia, a songwriter, and an electronic musician. Her compositional endeavors -- installations in museums, dance, theatre, and a successful electronic music duet she is a part of – are establishing her as an expansive artist. Herdís' first…
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Ep 219-Sune Hjerrild on Building a Tech Business in the Opera Industry
The former opera singer Sune Hjerrild, had the vision of what is now Truelinked after experiencing how the disconnect between the 'four As' (Artists, Arts Organisations, Agents and Audience) of the classical music industry could sometimes cause havoc in an artist's career, and greatly impede the...
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Ep 218-John David Mann on The Latte Factor
John David Mann rose to international prominence with his award-winning parable The Go-Giver (coauthored with Bob Burg), which has sold nearly a million copies in two dozen languages, has been hailed as "one of the most important parables about business—and life—of our time" by Adam Grant (Give…
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Ep 217-Mark Cawley on a Song Journey
Mark Cawley is a hit U.S. songwriter who coaches other writers around the globe through his one on one, online service iDocoach.com. His songs have been on more than 16 million records with cuts ranging from Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Chaka Khan and Diana Ross to Wynonna Judd, The Spice Girls and...
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Ep 216-Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate on Embracing Your Identity
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (Chickasaw) is a dedicated American Indian classical composer and pianist who expresses his native culture in symphonic music, ballet and opera. All of his compositions have been commissioned by major North American orchestras, ensembles and organizations and his…
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Ep 215-Pamela Z on The Five Jobs of a Successful Artist
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at...
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Ep 214-Brian Ralston on How Composing is Entrepreneurial
Composer and conductor Brian Ralston has spent the past 15 years creating compelling melodic tracks that inspire audiences. His creative gifts lend themselves to an extremely rich sound that can be felt throughout his works. Ralston's recent credits include Being Rose starring Cybill Shepherd and...
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Ep 213-Sean Beeson on The Six P's of a Career
Sean Beeson is composer, sound designer, and pianist who has worked on hundreds projects for games, films, ads, trailers, for clients like Google, Disney, McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Sony. His piano music has been streamed over 90 million times on YouTube, and his concert works have been premiered...
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Ep 212-Dale Trumbore on Staying Composed
Dale Trumbore's compositions have been commissioned, awarded and performed by ensembles including ACME, Center City Opera Theater, Choral Arts Initiative, The Esoterics, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, the Maryland State Boychoir, New York Virtuoso Singers, The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists, and...
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Ep 211-Danny Bensi & Saunder Juriaans on Letting Go of Ego
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are award-winning film composers. They have been playing music together for over twenty years. In the last eight years, they have completed well over 100 acclaimed film and TV scores. The duo is best known for their music in 'Enemy,' 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,'...
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Ep 210-Gabriel Mann on Being Invested
Gabriel Mann is a composer, songwriter, singer, and band member of LA-based alternative rock band The Rescues, he has made significant strides in every corner of the music industry. Equally comfortable in drama and comedy, scoring, songwriting and production, Mann wrote the theme and currently...
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Ep 209-Roger Nierenberg on The Music Paradigm
Maestro Roger Nierenberg is the creator of The Music Paradigm. The Music Paradigm is a powerful learning experience that uses symphonic music to illuminate compelling insights about people at work. Participants are seated directly amongst the orchestra musicians where they gain fresh…
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