David S. Lefkowitz

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Annie Hsieh. Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh is a Taiwanese-Australian composer working in acoustic and electroacoustic music, known for creating vivid sonic experiences shaped by space, gesture, and social interaction. Her works have been presented internationally at major festivals and venues including MATA, ISCM World Music Days, Adelaide Festival, Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, and she has received commissions from ensembles and institutions such as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Festival, and ELISION Ensemble. She is the recipient of awards including the APRA Art Music Fund and the Belegura Composer Award, and is currently Associate Professor of electronic music and composition at Carnegie Mellon University.

Andrew Waggoner

In this episode, I chat with Professor Andrew Waggoner. Professor Waggoner is a composer whose vivid, dramatic style has earned praise from The New Yorker as "the gifted practitioner of a complex but dramatic and vividly colored style." His music has been commissioned and performed by major ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Academy of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, JACK Quartet, Corigliano Quartet, and international groups such as Ensemble Accroche Note and the Rudersdal Kammersolister. A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Fromm Foundation commission, his recordings include Quantum Memoir on Bridge Records and Terror and Memory on Albany Records. He currently teaches composition and improvisation at Duke University and serves as Co-Artistic Director of the Weekend of Chamber Music.

Pascal Le Boeuf

In this episode, I chat with Professor Pascal Le Boeuf. Professor Le Boeuf is a GRAMMY-winning composer, jazz pianist, and producer whose music blends improvised performance with chamber writing and technology-driven production. Praised by the New York Times for his sleek, hyper-fluent style, he has been commissioned by ensembles and organizations including Akropolis Reed Quintet, Alarm Will Sound, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and New World Symphony. He is an Assistant Professor of Music at MIT and holds a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University.

David S. Lefkowitz

In this episode, I chat with Professor David S. Lefkowitz. Professor Lefkowitz is a composer, theorist, and professor at UCLA whose music has been performed widely across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His more than 150 works range from solo and chamber pieces to large-scale music for choir, orchestra, and wind ensemble, and his compositions have appeared on over twenty commercial recordings. He has taught composition, orchestration, and music theory at UCLA for more than three decades, where he has also served in departmental leadership roles. His training includes degrees from Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Eastman School of Music.

Eran Egozy

In this episode, I chat with Professor Eran Egozy. Professor Egozy is Professor of the Practice in Music Technology at MIT, an entrepreneur, clarinetist, and technologist best known as co-founder and chief technical officer of Harmonix Music Systems, the company behind Guitar Hero and Rock Band, which sold over 35 million units worldwide and generated over $1 billion in annual sales. Named in Time Magazine's Time 100 and Fortune's Top 40 Under 40, he now leads MIT's Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, with research focused on interactive music systems, music information retrieval, and multimodal musical engagement. His recent projects include the audience-participation works 12 and Tutti, and ConcertCue, a program-note streaming app featured in concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and awarded a Knight Foundation grant. As a clarinetist, he performs with Radius Ensemble and has appeared with Emmanuel Music and A Far Cry.