Check out “Virrinedda” from Avi Avital's new ITALY EP on streaming platforms www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue...
03.06.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social
Apprentice silence-improver. Composer: http://davidbruce.com ♫ Founder of http://8notes.com ♫ YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/dbruce ♫ Support my channel ♫ http://patreon.com/davidbruce
Check out “Virrinedda” from Avi Avital's new ITALY EP on streaming platforms www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue...
03.06.2025 16:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A post about artistic hubris www.youtube.com/shorts/G1WOB...
03.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Honoured to be the arranger of this first single "Tarantella di Sannicandro" from Avi Avital's Between Worlds album - out today, Full album out May 30 www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue...
(oh and did I mention, we'll be at the BBC Proms in September 😍)
A few years ago @tantacrul.bsky.social made a hilarious and accurate video about Sibelius software which eventually led to us becoming good friends. He's now completed the last of the music notation review series with this fun look at Finale and its demise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqao...
02.05.2025 16:07 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Todd Palmer premiered Gumboots 17yrs ago in Carnegie Hall. This May 3rd and 4th he performs it again with Catalyst Quartet in Noe Music, San Francisco, and in Monterey Bay www.noemusic.org www.chambermusicmontereybay.org/cmmb/concert...
29.04.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0youtu.be/2rJY9g7bfSg New video out today. Rapping at the Royal College of Music
14.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to meet and share thoughts and music with these wonderful composers at the first ever David Bruce Composer Workshop ). Video from the day will be up on my patreon later! Thanks to Ben Phair, Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy
Photos Yannis Gutmann
Thanks David! Really appreciated your kind words on Nothing the other day!
13.03.2025 20:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Get your scores in for this composition prize and a change to get your piece performed by Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. I'll be on the judging panel :-) www.mitropouloscompetition.gr
10.03.2025 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A new video about the end of Sibelius's 5th Symphony is available on my YouTubes, entitled "Why so Grumpy, Mr. Sibelius?" youtu.be/iKgaQ-lHzcg
07.03.2025 14:07 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1Over 50 applicants for my Composing Workshop in March, thanks to everyone who applied. Very much looking forward to meeting Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy and Ben Phair. The workshop will be available on my patreon.
26.02.2025 16:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks for the shout out @theguardian.com
24.02.2025 11:08 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😬
18.02.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Harmonium, celesta and soprano. Very cool combo!
18.02.2025 11:28 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩
11.02.2025 10:47 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩
11.02.2025 10:47 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Jacob Collier's Audience Choir is a unique experiment in turning a crowd into an instrument. I break down how it works, and look at far its come - how to make cluster chords and modulations, just by waving your hands! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN... @jacobcollier
04.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1New Video: The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN...
04.02.2025 13:53 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think this is something we all need a lot more of. Hendrix Star Spangled Banner on Multiphonic Bassoon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1O...
A new video all about the amazing mind of Ben Nobuto www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKz...
10.01.2025 20:36 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0An opportunity for UK-based composers
02.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0An opportunity for UK-based composers
02.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0"Sibelius' 5th symphony ending - the worst, most nerdy and silly ending ever." Discuss.
30.12.2024 17:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0New Video where do a bit of musical detective work: The Secret Rewrite Behind Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUo...
18.12.2024 18:05 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0When you create a fancy intro card and look at it 100 times without realising you've made a dumb typo.
17.12.2024 12:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gumboots as ballet in Manchester tonight 😍
03.12.2024 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UK-based composers: interested in a free composing masterclass? I’ll be offering 5 spots for a day of feedback and discussion, probably in March 2025.
Get your best piece ready to submit, more details will follow shortly. Feel free to ask questions below.
Lots of people have ideas for a tune or a piece of music but don't know what to do next. Here are 50 quick ways of taking your compositional idea to the next level (I used 'chopsticks' as a simple idea to work with) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSH...
23.11.2024 16:02 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0New composers (and sometimes old ones) often come up with an idea and then don't know what to do with it. My next video has 50+ suggestions. What's your favourite technique for developing a musical idea?
17.11.2024 12:20 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0For the peaceful transition of power - to a new app.
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