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Theorist Composer Collaboration

Theorist Composer Collaboration

Written by: 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.

Aaron D'Zurilla 2024
Music
Episodes
  • TCC 43. Public Music Theory and Conferences - Professor J. Daniel Jenkins
    Sep 1 2025

    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

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • TCC 42. Penumbra - Dr. Robert Gross
    Aug 18 2025

    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

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • TCC 41. Resonancia Natural - Dr. Carolina Heredia
    Aug 4 2025

    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

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    1 hr and 18 mins
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