Young Musician's Podcast

This week on the show, Dom kicks us off with a review of NaissanceE, the deep listening video game. We follow up with some beer, cheese, and music pairings! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show we have the illustrious Dylan Younger on to talk about his journey from graduation to becoming a full-time musician! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show Dom and Isaac compose a whole piece! Listen to their genius unfold over a short time! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

***PLEASE LISTEN FOR CONTENT WARNING AT BEGINNING*** This week on the show we talk about some scary music, our favorite Halloween films and soundtracks, and other scary things about music! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show Justin and Alaina talk about some albums from their childhoods and how they've influenced where they ended up as musicians.* Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you! *Editor's note- the Gwen Stefani text referenced in the middle of the episode is actually "there ain't no hollaback girl", roughly translating to "the crowd does not holler back at you because you are bad at cheerleading". The quote was left in because I thought the sentiment was still appropriately used.

This week on the show we talk about a variety of issues plaguing the world: Hong Kong, Blizzard, and the NBA. We talk about how these things affect us as Young Musicians and what we can do about it. Dom leads us down his carefully curated new playlist! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week we invite Jaman Dunn to talk with us about his career path to becoming the assistant director at an orchestra! Jaman introduces a great resource to us at https://www.composerdiversity.com/ where you can find all different kinds of useful information about which orchestras are composing works by women and underrepresented races. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show we invite Trevor from The Immaculate Beings on to talk with us about the conception of their family! We also get some insight onto how Justin's DMA prep is beginning and some excerpt talk. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

The gang's all back together this week. We talk about how to break in to a new city, ways to use your connections, and collaboration. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show we have not just one, but TWO Evans on the show. Join Justin as he talks with his brass trio, The Three Button Brass. Tune in to find out how this multi-state group prepared for and rehearsed for a concert in Louisiana as well as giving a masterclass. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show we invite our editor on to catch up with him! We also pitch the perfect dating app and talk about adjusting to being a musician outside of a university setting. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

Welcome back to SEASON FOUR! We're excited to be back. Keep an ear out for what's new on the podcast. We're featuring new music by Christian Rasmussen. This week Dom met with Jake Victor from the Jake Victor 5tet to talk about how they function as an internationally located group and their music. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

It's the final episode of Season 3! We break from our usual podcast format to play some games and trivia! Join us as we dive through some (largely forgotten) music history, questions about one another, and some drop the needle quizzes (sung by superstar singer, Katy Downs) Enjoy the last episode of Season 3! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week we invite our guest TYLER on with us to talk about taking some time off school and how that’s impacted his playing now! We talk about Pulitzers, Perpetulum, by Philip Glass and top it off with a guest hot take! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you! See y’all next week!

This week the gang gets a long-needed catch-up, addresses the question that plagues musicians everywhere, “How are we going to pay the bills?”, and Justin follows with a call for advice from the rest of the hosts. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you! See y’all next week!

Why Can’t the World Be Poetic? This week on the show we talk with host Isaac Mayhew and pianist Evie Werger about Isaac’s new album, “Why Can’t the World Be Poetic?”. He finally released his album he’s been talking about for pretty much this entire season the show! Join us as we listen to and talk about his album! You can find Isaac’s album on his bandcamp located at https://isaacmayhewcomposition.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR0eTT-uXDj3KgbzDR1ABrbBPBaPQLIHRjU2S0HJU45tjJ2u2DRf2VKTA5I Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you! See y’all next week!

This week on the show we invite bassist Emmett Jackson on with us to talk about his stool, graduate auditions, and performance practice. Afterwards he shares a hot take with us about the (potentially) most underrated 20th century composer! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you! See y’all next week!

This week on the show we speak with soprano Froya Olson about her upcoming recital, post-grad life as a singer in the modern music, and more! Froya shares a hot take, and Alaina leads a discussion of Solange's new track "Time (Is)." Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you! See y’all next week!

This week on the podcast the entire crew is back! We’ve got some fresh-off-the-press news to talk about, a discussion on what we feel after big recitals, a piece by one of your hosts AND PREMIERED by another one of your hosts. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show, Justin and Isaac are joined by hornist Nicoletta Pignatello for a discussion covering many topics including brass quintet repertoire, crowdfunding, managing an ensemble, creating an album, and pasta. Nicoletta shares a few hot takes, Isaac joins in with one of his own, and the music listening for this week is Donald Erb's "Three Pieces for Brass Quintet and Piano."Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show we’ll be talking some news which happens to be positive (we think) and we have an interview with the esteemed Hayley Abramowitz, who will be talking gender roles and serving up our music as well as our hot take. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

Hello and welcome to another episode of the young musician’s podcast! Today on the show, the CSO is going on strike (maybe), Dom interviews our friend Phil Knisley, we talk about John Adams (not the president, not the luther, not the OTHER president), and Alaina serves up a spicy hot take. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

Welcome to a special bonus episode of YMP! We're joined by Coleman Itzkoff, Christian Rasmussen, and Katy Downs to talk about dating and relationships in the music world! This is just a little teaser of the type of content that's available on our Patreon (found here https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast). These sorts of shorter, off-topic episodes can be found there! Please consider becoming a patron!

This week on the show, we will speak with cellist Coleman Itzkoff, a cellist hailed by Alex Ross of the New Yorker for his “flawless technique and keen musicality." We also talk about the GRAMMYs and we get a listener hot take! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

Welcome to the new year on the Young Musician’s Podcast! We’ve got good news and bad news from the opera world. We also talk about Dua Saleh’s EP Nūr, and Justin shares a spicy take about some Shostakovich propaganda. Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast and send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

Last episode of the year! We deliver our State of the Podcast Address, give some resolutions for ourselves for 2018, and delve in to some listener hot takes. Did yours make the cut? Listen and find out! We’ll see you next year! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast And send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week, Isaac and Alaina sit down for a discussion on how music fits into our lives even when we aren’t full-time “working musicians.” We reflect on how careers in the arts differ from those in other fields, and talk about Missy Mazzoli’s piece “Vespers” for solo violin and electronics. Important links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL0yER9G0ro Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast And send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week’s episode is just a couple of boneheads interviewing each other. Dom and Justin talk about alternate realities, movies, Adam Sandler, and take a page out of Izzy Yellen’s playbook and get really in-depth talking about an album. Important links: https://composition.frost.miami.edu/about/opportunities/frost-composition-competition-winners/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1f_JjQDvUSTsPaBHbuOMaCCP1IEvdgk2R5W4tST_lVNOre3KjuVEwWjTY http://quoteunquoterecords.com/albums.htm Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast And send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

Justin misses his first podcast! Join us as we meet and chat with JB Taylor, talk about Kevin Puts and Esperanza Spaulding, and Dom serves up a medium-spice take. http://www.ghananationalmusicfestival.com https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/war-is-hell-and-other-original-insights-silent-night-at-the-opera/2018/11/11/78a40a7e-e5df-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0kft3jWVuzrb0YjHRW-KFkWpMeZ5Ijh2GW0-_I-SJ2Ez7pqzaW1cXVDEc&noredirect=on&utm_term=.4f67138affa3 Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast And send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show: An orchestral season that’s almost entirely female, Alaina interviews The Shackletons, and Isaac gives us both the music AND the hot spicy take. Enjoy! Links: https://tinyurl.com/y8l7xa58 https://www.facebook.com/CCandTS/ http://www.dominicirving.com/cccbsg/ Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast And send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

This week on the show we have Boston-based flutist Katy Downs! We talk about power dynamics in the orcestra, some music by eighth blackbird, and Katy serves up an incredibly spicy take. Check it out! Don’t forget to give us a like on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple podcast store. Also support us on patreon https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast And send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, we’d love to hear from you!

It's shameless self promotion week! We talk about what we've been up to, what projects we have in the mix, problems we've encountered, all sorts of things! Links: https://www.gofundme.com/why-can039t-the-world-be-poetic?fbclid=IwAR2yurANAO53sFflDmF0ldakA8T2JKBDx_FINpt37qp_2AwMYarBtWAU8Ao https://soundcloud.com/kristophermariasy/machine?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3fDJVb8UQa9EpAgBrRiJAOAckEyRgviM27RehfIZ04on4NH3yiFM74OqA As always, contact us at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, like us on Facebook, and give us a rating in the Apple Podcast store. Also check out our Patreon for exclusive bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast

This week on the show: the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra was on strike, Isaac interviewed Josh Trentadue while they were both in Michigan, we listened to some reed quintet music, and Dom dishes up a hot and fresh take for us. Enjoy! Links: https://www.joshtrentadue.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEu0tzPirfs&t=1s Contact us! Send your emails to youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, or message us on facebook. Don't forget to like our facebook page and give us a rating in the Apple Podcast store! And please support us on patreon (https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast) and receive exclusive bonus content!

This week on the show we talk about navigating a world where so many things are happening and so many thing have already been done. How do you find your voice? Well, Daniel Whitworth, the composer responsible for our music this week, seems to have done just that. Links: https://nypost.com/2018/10/01/violinist-aims-to-cool-tensions-on-capitol-hill-with-music/ https://soundcloud.com/user-704168709/ripples-in-infinity As always, we want to hear from you! Send us an email at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com, don't forget to give us a rating in the podcast store, and give us a like on Facebook! Also, check out our patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content! We'd really appreciate your support! That link can be found here https://www.patreon.com/YMPodcast

This week on the show, Dom talks about Supercolider with Duncan Boatright, it's Isaac's first official show so he's dishing out a couple spicy hot takes. Also copyright laws are changing, so download everything from 1948-1968 off IMSLP because it might not be there tomorrow. Links: https://hannabenn.bandcamp.com/album/divide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4wVXE0Lva8 https://supercollider.github.io/ Be sure to rate us on the podcast store! Also shoot us an email or facebook message! youngmusicianspodcast.com

This week on the show we've got Marcus Schenck, General Director of the Promenade Opera Project. We talk about POP, the start of the NY Phil's season, some music is played, and of course the takes are hot. We want to hear from you! Send your listener mail to youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com! Couple links to drop here: Promenade Opera Project website -https://www.promenadeoperaproject.com/ NYT article - https://tinyurl.com/y7btuwty Link to the music we talked about - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLjbhNKDnUk Catch us next week!

We're back!!! With a new format!! Back to school style!!! We'd love to hear what you think: youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com Here are some links to some things we talked about in the news: https://tinyurl.com/y8s8n4w4 (WaPo on Cleveland Orchestra suspending principal trombonist) https://tinyurl.com/y7hakv8e (NYT on suspension of principal oboist and assistant principal trumpet) https://tinyurl.com/y98enqqy (WaPo on lawsuit against Baltimore Symphony) https://tinyurl.com/y9xtczng (Blair Tindall interview) https://tinyurl.com/ycdzm6aq (Power dynamics in the Avital Ronell case) And a link to the music we talked about (The Pieces That Fall to Earth - Chris Cerrone): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkR02gS2Yoo As always, please give us a like on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/youngmusicianspodcast/ And shoot us a message or email! We'd love to hear from you!

BIG NEWS: we are switching to a seasonal format! More info to come on this, but basically it will let us better prepare for each episode, giving you more consistently high quality episodes. We decided to end the first season with a fun episode! We have Katy Downs as our guest this week, and we present to each other our hottest hot takes. Lots of good debate in this one! Let us know your thoughts!! Don't forget to like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/youngmusicianspodcast/) And follow our blog (wordpress.com/view/ympblogcom.wordpress.com) And feel free to write to us via email (youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com), we'd love to hear from you (especially on this last episode)!

Since the WiFi at Skidmore College is terrible, we have a slightly different episode for you! Joining Justin today is Evan Fowler, Evan McAleer, and Nick Fife! We're all attending the inaugural year of the Mostly Modern Festival, and we're giving our initial impressions of this incredible festival! Plugs: Like the Allumer Quartet here https://www.facebook.com/allumerquartet/ Find The Midlands new albume here https://www.themidlandsmusic.com/ Water Music info is here https://www.facebook.com/events/245168879386547/ Don't forget to like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/youngmusicianspodcast/) And follow our blog (wordpress.com/view/ympblogcom.wordpress.com) And feel free to write to us via email (youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com), we'd love to hear from you

It's just the bois this week, and we're talking about how nets work! Actually, we're talking about networking, how social media ties in to networking for musicians, and how to navigate social media as musicians. Don't forget to like us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/youngmusicianspodcast/) And follow our blog (wordpress.com/view/ympblogcom.wordpress.com) And feel free to write to us via email (youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com), we'd love to hear from you!

It's summer break, we're all getting bored, so we decided to spice it up a bit this week with some random topics we're passionate about! Board/video games, cooking/baking, cats, funny stories about my mom, you name it! Don't forget to like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/youngmusicianspodcast/) And follow our blog (https://wordpress.com/view/ympblogcom.wordpress.com) And feel free to write to us via email (youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com), we'd love to hear from you!

This week on the show we have Brian Mironer! Brian has been working on Guido, a new invention for music educators to teach solfege. We're very excited about this new invention and very excited for what Brian will do with it!

Inspired by recent experiences, we discuss the relationships between composer and performer and conductor! Lots to unpack here! Stay tuned for an extra special show to be released next week!

Joining us this week is Erick Álvarez! Erick just got back from an outreach trip to Peru, so we talk about that as well as some unspoken rules of being a musician and how to cultivate emotional intelligence, a very important skill for everyone! Info for the Great Clarinet Summit can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/446478415769917/

This week on the show we have Jarren Heidelberg! Jarren is a pop music major at USC, you can catch him drumming pretty much any given weekend. In this episode, we talk about DAMN. winning the Pulitzer Prize in music, our impressions of the album, and tearing down elitism surrounding classical music.

This week on the show we have John McGovern! We talk about percussion music, how to take auditions, and what's going on with orchestras today. Here's John's recording of Jabberwocky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpqp-tvXWU We also got our blog up and running! Check it out here: https://ympblogcom.wordpress.com/

Joining us on the show this week is Kelly Cruz! She's a drummer at USC in their pop program! We talk about her experience as a female drummer, and dig in to sexism in the industry as a whole. Kelly is also in MOTHER, and they're releasing an EP later in May! Check out their assorted social medias for more details! https://www.facebook.com/thebandmother/ https://www.instagram.com/wearemother/

We back! We get to talk about technology, Dom has some strong opinions on this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1P-AEaEp8

No Garrett this week, but we dove in to talk about those HOT summer festivals you're waiting to get rejected from. Newmusicbox link: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/get-out-there-alternative-opportunities-for-composers-and-performers/ NYT article Alaina talked about: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-class-white-and-black-men.html As always, contact us at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com SEND US QUESTIONS PLZ

No Alaina this week, so instead we had our friend Kyle Stalsberg on the show and we talked about cats almost as much as we talked about music. Download Lilith EP here: https://lilithensemble.bandcamp.com/releases Website here: https://www.lilithensemble.com/ As always, contact us at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com

Sometimes I wish we had money to pay an editor....or not use Skype. Anyway, this week on the show we had Kevin Madison and Shannon Williams to talk about, well, kind of a little bit of everything. Contact us at youngmusicianspodcast@gmail.com with questions/comments!!! We'd love to hear from you