This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the composer Will Davenport and his piece Concerto for 6 String Electric Violin. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Will about his year in composition, reflections on graduate studies, writing a masters thesis, orchestrating electric strings, composing large pieces, and how to get the most out of academic study.
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Performance credits for Concerto for 6 String Electric Violin:
Soloist: Noah J. Gruenberg
Violins: Emelia Ulrich, Chris Chiarotti
Viola: Jacob Grice
Cello: Thu Vu
Bass: Maximillian Levesque
Conductor: Brian Junttila
Theorist/TCC Founder
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Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida, and is a current Graduate Music Theory student at Florida State University.
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Composer
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Will Davenport is an internationally performed, American midwest-based composer currently working towards his master’s at Florida State University under Dr. Liliya Ugay. He recently graduated from Ohio University where he studied under Dr. Robert W. McClure and Dr. Mark Phillips. Davenport’s music mixes aesthetics from the past with modern techniques in new and unique ways in order to communicate the strangeness of currently being alive. With each piece, Davenport ventures into personally unexplored territories and thrives to collaborate with other composers and musicians as much as possible; creating with other people drives his passion for making.
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wdavenportcomposer@gmail.com