PERCUSSIONIST: BOB HANDELMAN/COURTESY OF YALE. SF CONSERVATORY: CARLIN MA PHOTOGRAPHY/ COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. CELLIST: COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

Juilliard offers a world-renowned conservatory education in pure music as well as its Center for Innovation in the Arts, which includes media scoring classes such as composing for visual media ...

And if the director also happens to have had a hand in the writing of the music, you’d imagine that the potential for conflict would be even higher. This was the scenario faced by Rihards Zalupe ...

To me, that was the same as composing, the same as cooking – building something that has aesthetics and purpose. Eventually I switched to music engineering, because that would allow me to get ...

Cage was notorious for his radically innovative music, which challenged conventional ideas about harmony and composition. (He rejected the former and approached the latter with chance operations.) ...

When we spoke, he had just spent several months composing and performing music around the U.S. (SOUNDBITE OF CUATRO PUNTOS AND AMEEN MOKDAD'S "FROM HER, SCENE NO. 203") SHAPIRO: I think many ...

North explains that his path down the road to composing music for video games wasn't always straightforward. At first, he found work by attending E3 conventions and collaborating with other composers.

Quinn was most known for composing the music for the long-running coming-of-age musical “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up,” which premiered in Chicago in 1979 and went all the ...

Twenty-four year old composer and musical prodigy Quinn Mason, a graduate of North Dallas High School, has been making music since he ... who has been composing nonstop from his family’s Dallas ...