Marti Epstein
Composer
Playlists
All Videos (24)
- What I Do
- Bloom
- Composing My Opera Rumpelstiltskin
- A Favorite Composition Story
- My Two Favorite Compositions
- Great Part
- Challenges
- Education
- Favorite Subjects
- Goals
- Helpful Teachers
- Heroes
- My Leonard Bernstein Story
- My Toru Takemitsu Story
- Jean Sibelius and Morton Feldman
- Skills From Childhood
- Relative Pitch vs Perfect Pitch
- Tips on Critical Listening
- How to Compose Music
- How to Get Commissions
- Staying Motivated
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Did it Anyway
- Advice
Bio
Watch Marti Epstein, Ph.D., Composer and Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music and faculty member of the Boston Conservatory, discuss how she creates her music and how a young composer can get started. She is an award-winning composer whose music is regularly commissioned, recorded and performed around the world. She walks us through the nuances of a performance of her composition “Bloom” and shares stories about her encounters with two of her musical heroes, Toru Takemitsu and Leonard Bernstein.
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