Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning concert, film, and video game composer. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Disney Concert Hall, and many other venues. His recent [...]
John David Mann rose to international prominence with his award-winning parable The Go-Giver (coauthored with Bob Burg), which has sold nearly a million copies in two dozen languages, has been hailed as "one of [...]
This is not a comprehensive list of all the things you need to build a portfolio career. It's a place to start. Through several hundred interviews and hours of coaching composers and creatives, these things [...]
Shell Tain is a recovering accountant and personal coach who specializes in helping people untangle their money knots. She studied coaching with the Coaches Training Institute and holds CPCC (Certified Professional Co-Active Coach) and [...]
Brooklyn born and bred artist Tamar-kali is a second-generation musician with roots in the coastal Sea Islands of South Carolina. As a performing and recording artist, she has defied boundaries to craft her own [...]
Image by Gavin Whitner. In my last post I argued how composers are in the business of producing and monetizing assets. To remind you, an asset is an item, physical or digital, that [...]
This post contains affiliate links. I've been putting a lot of thought into what the business of composing actually is. Composing music means, among other things, to create art, add value, tell stories, serve [...]
A guest blog post by Adam Schumaker. Every opportunity-driven composer has probably been on www.composerssite.com. It is a wonderful resource for finding competitions, call-for-scores, residencies--any opportunity we composers believe we need to succeed. The American [...]
A guest blog post by Arthur Breur. Arthur was featured in Ep 72 of The Portfolio Composer. He also wrote a blog series for The Portfolio Composer website on the power of blogging. You can [...]
This week marks the second anniversary of the podcast! To celebrate I've gone through the 10 most popular episodes of 2016 and pulled out a short highlight from each one. Episode popularity was calculated by [...]
