Tina Davidson

Tonight's vigil for those slain in Minneapolis was packed - 100s attended. Kudus to Indivisible LT for putting on a protest with speakers, music and a Zoom link. On Saturday two protests, Sunday our monthly ICE-OUT protest. Lancaster PA is busy these days.

World premiere of my new string quartet is available on livestream. Sunday, January 11 at 2 PM EST. Here is the link: event.newschool.edu/schneiderliv...

I am delighted my new string quartet, "Just Before Light" will be premiered Sunday, January 11, 2026, 2:00PM at the Schneider Concerts of The New School. The work was co-commission by Schneider Concerts and Ulysses Quartet. For more information: event.newschool.edu/schneidercon...

Contemporary Composer Interview Series: Tina Davidson Composing As Self Discovery

Contemporary Composer Series: Tina Davidson
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Finding Your Voice Holding a large bag of recycled materials – tin cans, soda bottles, and shoe boxes, I pause.

Please read my new post about teaching composition through instrument building. tdavid508.substack.com/p/finding-yo...

Some Things I Have Learned Part 1

Some Things I Have Learned - What I would say to myself as a young composer. Please enjoy my new substack blog: tdavid508.substack.com/p/some-thing...

Thrilled that my music is now available at Just A Theory Press! Check is out: justatheorypress.com/pages/tina-d...

A few days before voting closes! FOR YOUR CONSIDERATiON, audio book of my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken is intertwined with my original chamber works. Learn more: www.tinadavidson.com/let-your-hea...

Small Things The evening in my studio was beginning to darken at a recent Composer Posse gathering.

I wanted to share my new substack blog: "as concerned citizens..we never, never underestimate the power of our actions, no matter how small.

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I am honored that the audio book version of Let Your Heart Be Broken is on the ballot for the GRAMMYs. To learn more about the book and the music that is included please go to: www.tinadavidson.com/let-your-hea...

Wonderful stimulating and heartening gathering with our Composer Posse last night. We discussed our music with respect to community engagement - how we inspire, collaborate, educate, connect, stretch, and resist. If you are a composer and would like to join us, please contact me.

My first time being a marshal at a protest! Keeping watch so everyone is safe!

A Long Tail As always, despite my protestations and traveling worries, it is a good place.

Delight to share my new substack post, A Long Tail - music in the mountains. Here is the link to read
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What a lovely interview of the audiobook version of my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken. Thank you Occhi magazine !! Read: occhimagazine.com/in-conversat...

Today I celebrated the release of my audio book my memoir, "Let Your Hear Be Broken" with a reading a Gretna Music. You can find it here: www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...

Thrilled that my memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken will be available on August 12th as an audiobook. Included are recordings of my music at the relevant points in my narration, opening the door for listeners to understand and connect more deeply. Pre-order available now: www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...

I am full of motion as I compose, using a kinetic energy that brings out a sweet solidity. I swear that my hand, moving up and down, over and across as I compose with pencil, wakes up a deeper something else. It moves me into the heart of things.

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Spending a week up in "heaven." A small cabin, no internet and time to read, write and walk with my little dog.

A wonderful Composer Posse Meeting discussing ways to preserve one's works. Inspiring to be with so many composers, sharing information in support of each other.

Just had my web site updated with a new look! Please visit: www.tinadavidson.com

Tina Davidson, Note by Note | Substack Music Composer and Author

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Let Your Heart Be Broken “The miracle is that we rise again out of suffering… The miracle is that we create ourselves anew.”

Almost two years since my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer was released. This was a wonderful review by Maria Popova in The Marginalian ❤️
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Wonderful video of my piece, BAR NONE for for piano, two screws and an eraser by pianist Guy Livingston.

YouTube video by Tina Davidson Always Parisa by Tina Davidson

Gratefully for this wonderful performance of ALWAYS PARISA for cello and string orchestra. Thank you Sara Male and Allegro Orchestra Lancaster. Please take a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=698k...

Happy to introduce myself to Blue Sky! I am a composer, and the author of a recent memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer. www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...