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Gemma Peacocke

Gemma Peacocke (she/her) is a US-based composer from New Zealand. Her rescue dog Mila is a standard poodle from Korea. Their musical tastes differ markedly.
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Omar Thomas -- Photo by Remi McQuen

5 Questions to Omar Thomas (composer)

Omar Thomas is an award-winning composer and jazz artist based in Austin, TX. Raised in a Guyanese f...
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Gemma Peacocke
Theo Bleckmann, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk perform at Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend -- Photo by Stephanie Berger

Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend Ends with Woman-Led Sets United by Honesty and Ferocity

Bang on a Can began with a fabled marathon concert in May 1987; lasting over 12 hours, the event fea...
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Gemma Peacocke
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Susie Ibarra’s “Sky Islands” is an Evocative Sonification of Fragile Rainforest Ecosystems

On the mountaintops of Luzon, Philippines are a collection of unique, high-altitude rainforest ecosy...
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Gemma Peacocke
Talea Ensemble--Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Talea Ensemble Celebrates 15 Years With Program of Immersive Solo Works

New York’s Talea Ensemble held its 15th anniversary concert – a set of four solo pieces – on May 30...
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Gemma Peacocke
Samatha Rose Williams -- Photo by Shawn F. Blair

5 Questions to Samantha Rose Williams (singer and creative producer, “American Patriots”)

Samantha Rose Williams is the creative producer of American Patriots, a new song-cycle that probes A...
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Gemma Peacocke
Jess Gillam -- Photo by Robin Clewley

5 Questions to Jess Gillam (saxophonist)

In a field dominated almost exclusively by men, the ascent as a soloist of British saxophonist Jess...
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Gemma Peacocke
Gemma Peacocke

Anatomy of a Commission: Transcending a Capitalist Valuation of Commissioning Fees

Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
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Gemma Peacocke
Wang Jie--Photo by Kevin Hsu

5 Questions to Wang Jie (composer)

Award-winning composer Wang Jie grew up in Shanghai in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. A gifted...
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Gemma Peacocke
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5 Questions to Raquel Acevedo Klein (conductor, vocalist, composer, instrumentalist)

Raquel Acevedo Klein is a conductor, vocalist, producer, curator, illustrator, and composer based in...
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Gemma Peacocke
Charmaine Lee--Screenshot courtesy of Roulette

Charmaine Lee Delivers Electrifying, Experimental Improvisation at Roulette

There’s a weirdly reflexive magnetism between New Zealanders who live overseas. I think we find comf...
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Gemma Peacocke
Tina Tallon--Photo by Rose Lincoln

5 Questions to Tina Tallon (creative technologist, sound artist)

Tina Tallon began her career as a researcher at MIT, where she developed computational tools to mode...
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Gemma Peacocke
Afa Dworkin--Photo by Kevin Kennedy

5 Questions to Afa Dworkin (President & Artistic Director, Sphinx Organization)

Afa Sadykhly Dworkin is the President and Artistic Director of Detroit’s Sphinx Organization. Born i...
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Gemma Peacocke
Tyshawn Sorey--Photo by John Rogers

5 Questions to Tyshawn Sorey (composer, multi-instrumentalist)

Tyshawn Sorey is an acclaimed composer and multi-instrumentalist from Newark, New Jersey. A virtuosi...
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Gemma Peacocke
Juhi Bansal--Photo by Nicolas Gerpe

5 Questions to Juhi Bansal (composer, conductor, teacher)

Composer Juhi Bansal was brought up in India and Hong Kong, and she grew up playing the piano and li...
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Gemma Peacocke
Elizabeth de Brito © all rights reserved 2020

5 Questions to Elizabeth de Brito (Host, The Daffodil Perspective)

Elizabeth de Brito is the host of The Daffodil Perspective, an online classical radio show with a fo...
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Gemma Peacocke
Hanna Arie-Gaifman--Photo courtesy 92Y

5 Questions to Hanna Arie-Gaifman (92Y’s Tisch Center for the Arts)

Hanna Arie-Gaifman is Director of 92nd Street Y’s Tisch Center for the Arts. In addition to he...
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Gemma Peacocke
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5 Questions to Shauna Quill (Executive Director, New York Youth Symphony)

Founded in 1963 as an orchestra for gifted musicians between the ages of 12-22, the New York Youth S...
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Gemma Peacocke
Vanessa Rose--Photo by Julia Gang

5 Questions to Vanessa Rose (President, American Composers Forum)

The American Composers Forum began in 1973 as a University of Minnesota student club, formalising in...
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Gemma Peacocke
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5 Questions to Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Shruthi Rajasekar (composers)

Composers Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Shruthi Rajasekar both recently completed their studies at Prin...
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Gemma Peacocke
Nicolas Benavides--Photo by Vivian Sachs

5 Questions to Nicolas Lell Benavides (composer)

Nicolas Lell Benavides is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based composer from New Mexico. His comic...
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Gemma Peacocke
inti figgis-vizueta

5 Questions to inti figgis-vizueta (composer)

inti figgis-vizueta is a non-binary Quechua/Latinx composer from Washington, D.C. As head of the Bou...
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Gemma Peacocke
Reena Esmail

5 Questions to Reena Esmail (composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist)

Los Angeles-based composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Reena Esmail is known for large-scale...
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Gemma Peacocke
Gabriella Smith

5 Questions to Gabriella Smith (composer)

Gabriella Smith grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied at the Curtis Institute before beg...
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Gemma Peacocke
Ariadne Greif in Six.Twenty.Outrageous

SIX.TWENTY.OUTRAGEOUS Transforms Gertrude Stein Plays into Opera

Daniel Thomas Davis’ new chamber opera, Six.Twenty.Outrageous: Three Gertrude Stein Plays in the Sha...
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Gemma Peacocke
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