Theorist Composer Collaboration

Aaron D'Zurilla
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The Theorist Composer Collaboration is a podcast interview series highlighting modern composers and music theorists. With guests ranging from freelance composers, graduate students, and tenured professors, the TCC is a space of discourse and discussion between the similar but the often separated fields of music theory and composition, bringing together modern musical analysis and practice.

  1. TCC 43. Public Music Theory and Conferences - Professor J. Daniel Jenkins

    09/01/2025

    TCC 43. Public Music Theory and Conferences - Professor J. Daniel Jenkins

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features music theorist Professor J. Daniel Jenkins. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Jenkins about his background, time as a regional conference president, the past and future of public music theory and much more! Professor Jenkins contact: Website: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/music/faculty-staff/Jenkins.php Email: dannyjenkins@sc.edu Spectrum Volume on Public Music Theory: https://societymusictheory.org/announcement/music-theory-spectrum-471-2025-06 Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    1h 12m
  2. TCC 42. Penumbra - Dr. Robert Gross

    08/18/2025

    TCC 42. Penumbra - Dr. Robert Gross

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Robert Gross and his piece Penumbra. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Gross about his background, various music occupations, several technical approaches to composition and much more! Dr. Gross contact: Website: newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/penumbra Email: rgrosscomposer@gmail.com Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Penumbra was recorded and performed by the Cordova String Quartet Violin: Andy Liang Violin: Niccolo Muti Viola: Blake Turner Cello: Matthew Kufchak TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    1h 22m
  3. TCC 41. Resonancia Natural - Dr. Carolina Heredia

    08/04/2025

    TCC 41. Resonancia Natural - Dr. Carolina Heredia

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Carolina Heredia and her piece Resonancia Natural. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Heredia about her background, multidisciplinary composition, sonic connections with nature and much more! Dr. Heredia contact: Website: https://www.carolinaheredia.com/ Email: caro@carolinaheredia.com Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Resonancia Natural was commissioned by Sara Fraker, Jackie Glazier, and Marissa Olegario with support from the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona. The playback track includes recordings by Luc Barbaro Accompanying video by Bird Harris

    1h 18m
  4. TCC 40. Who Is Music For? - Professor Roshanne Etezady

    07/21/2025

    TCC 40. Who Is Music For? - Professor Roshanne Etezady

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features Professor of Composition Roshanne Etezady. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Etezady about her background, journey to professorship, evolution of her compositional work, today’s graduate students and much more! Professor Etezady contact: Website: https://www.roshanne.com/ Email: roshanne.etezady@gmail.com Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    1h 17m
  5. TCC 39. Social Movements and Protest Scholarship - Professor Noriko Manabe

    07/07/2025

    TCC 39. Social Movements and Protest Scholarship - Professor Noriko Manabe

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the music theorist Professor Noriko Manabe. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Professor Manabe about her background, career journey, the relevance of protest scholarship, Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl performance, the future of music theory and much more! Professor Manabe contact: Website: https://www.norikomanabe.com/ Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    52 min
  6. TCC 38. Becoming Tangible - Dr. Amelia Brey

    06/24/2025

    TCC 38. Becoming Tangible - Dr. Amelia Brey

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the composer Dr. Amelia Brey and her piece Becoming Tangible. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Brey about her background, process of composition, music philosophy and much more! Dr. Brey contact: Email: ameliabrey@proton.me Website: ameliabrey.wordpress.com Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Becoming Tangible was performed by the National Sawdust Ensemble under the direction of conductor Kelly Lam, with text by Julien Harman-Evans. TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    1h 8m
  7. TCC 37: Festivals and Competitions - TCC Roundtable

    06/09/2025

    TCC 37: Festivals and Competitions - TCC Roundtable

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features Dr. Francisco Javier de Alba and Professor Nadine Silverman for a TCC Roundtable on composition festivals and competitions. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Paco and Professor Silverman about accessibility, the benefits of networking, career development, institutional improvements and much more! Dr. de Alba contact page: https://www.tccollaboration.com/guests/dr-francisco-javier/ Professor Silverman contact page: https://www.tccollaboration.com/guests/professor-nadine-sil/ Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    1h 35m
  8. TCC 36. Politicization, Autonomy, and Resistance - Professor Michael Buchler

    05/26/2025

    TCC 36. Politicization, Autonomy, and Resistance - Professor Michael Buchler

    This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration podcast features the music theorist and former SMT president Professor Michael Buchler. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Dr. Buchler about his background, the current political state of the university system, what really should not be political, the safety of international students, the future of the Society for Music Theory and much more! Dr. Buchler contact: mbuchler@fsu.edu Donate to the TCC: https://buymeacoffee.com/tccollaboration A full episode transcript is also available on our host website on the corresponding episode page a few weeks after the initial upload at https://www.tccollaboration.com/ Make sure to follow the TCC social media and hosting accounts on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557900086297 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tc_collaboration/ Website: https://www.tccollaboration.com/ TCC Theme composed by Will Davenport

    1h 20m
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The Theorist Composer Collaboration is a podcast interview series highlighting modern composers and music theorists. With guests ranging from freelance composers, graduate students, and tenured professors, the TCC is a space of discourse and discussion between the similar but the often separated fields of music theory and composition, bringing together modern musical analysis and practice.

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