@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
If you're in LA/Santa Barbara areas do come to one of the performances of my new wind quintet (actually a sextet because I'll be performing the optional gong part). Details below. Would love to say hi if you come cameratapacifica.org
27.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you ever heard clarinet notes this high? Clip from my new video about the highest notes ever composed, featured clarinettist Petros Andreadis
24.02.2026 12:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New video - The Highest Note Ever Composed (and why)
23.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out my son's new channel interviewing online business people....like me 🎺🎺🎺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj3...
15.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new in-depth video on Gamelan and its relationship with 20th Century Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7M2...
19.09.2025 12:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Join me for a late night Prom featuring the piece I originally wrote for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, 'Cut the Rug', performed here by Avi Avital's amazing Between Worlds. 9th Sept 10.15pm. Rumour has it I might also be found in the Queen's Arms pub in the hours beforehand 😊 #bbcproms
17.08.2025 18:19 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
A post about artistic hubris www.youtube.com/shorts/G1WOB...
03.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Honoured 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 — 👍 11 🔁 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 📌 0
youtu.be/2rJY9g7bfSg New video out today. Rapping at the Royal College of Music
14.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great 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 📌 0
Get 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 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A 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 📌 1
Over 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 📌 0
Thanks 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 📌 0
Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩
11.02.2025 10:47 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩
11.02.2025 10:47 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Jacob 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 📌 1
New Video: The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN...
04.02.2025 13:53 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I 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 📌 0
An opportunity for UK-based composers
02.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
An 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 📌 0
New 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 📌 0
