Jo-Ná A. Williams, Esq. founded J.A. Williams Law P.C. – The Artist Empowerment Firm in 2011 to provide artists and entrepreneurs with ways to successfully navigate their careers and provide assistance with business, entertainment and [...]
Dave Hall is a versatile songwriter and composer who writes in several different styles, from acoustic/singer-songwriter, to country, musical theater, contemporary classical, and even Middle Eastern. Known for his witty and poetic lyrcis, Hall has [...]
In 2003, after 20 years as a successful business consultant, Aprille threw away her corporate suit to work with creative entrepreneurs. Today she helps them leverage the power of story for sales and marketing so [...]
Gregory W. Brown lives and works in Western Massachusetts. He holds degrees from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music (University of Georgia), Westminster Choir College, and Amherst College, where he studied with the Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]
Considered “highly imaginative…with big ideas” (Baltimore Sun) and “stirring and uplifting” (Miami Herald), award-winning composer Jake Runestad (b. 1986) has received commissions and performances from leading ensembles and organizations such as Washington National Opera, the [...]
Peter DiMuro has woven a career as a choreographer, director, teacher, facilitator and arts practitioner/engager, touring and teaching internationally from Honk Kong to Pigeon Forge, TN. His Peter DiMuro Performance Associates and his fifteen-year collaboration, [...]
Rusty Banks is a composer/guitarist born in Jasper, Alabama and living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His compositions have been performed in China, Taiwan, France, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the United States. Besides writing concert [...]
The music of Michael Torke has been called "some of the most optimistic, joyful and thoroughly uplifting music to appear in recent years" (Gramophone). Hailed as a "vitally inventive composer" (Financial Times) and "a master [...]
Two questions are answered today, and this time by the composers who have shared their insights on Composer on Fire episodes before. The questions: What do I do if the people who commissioned the music [...]
Gregory Spears writes music for modern and period instruments that blends aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music. His work has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (New York Times), “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker), and “some [...]
