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The Saad Haddad Show
by Saad Haddad
Saad Haddad is a composer that chats casually with composers and musicians that are into making new sounds, no matter the aesthetic.
Episodes
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Ben Morris
Ben 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...
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This 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…
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Infinite 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...
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Composing 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…
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Can 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...
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Turtle 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...
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Vulnerability, 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...
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This 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...
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Tonality, 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…
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Driving 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...
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Noise 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…
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Founding 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...
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Finding 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...
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Meet 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…
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Opera, 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...
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Composing 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...
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The 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 //...
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This 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...
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“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...
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This 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...
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This 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...
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Meet 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...
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This 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…
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Columbia 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…
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Soundtracking 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...
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Meet 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...
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The 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...
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The 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…
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“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,...
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Meet 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…
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This 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...
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This 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:...
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The 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…
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“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...
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This 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,...
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This 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...
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Composing 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...
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Orbiting 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,...
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This 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.…
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Why 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...
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I 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...
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Meet 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...
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What’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…
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New 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...
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This 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...
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This 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...
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Meet the Haddad Triplets
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This 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…
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This 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…
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Saad Haddad is a composer that chats casually with composers and musicians that are into making new sounds, no matter the aesthetic.
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