This week we spoke with composer/percussionist Eric Guinivan, who now teaches at JMU. He is the creator of Composer's Circle, a website that features a different composer EVERY DAY.
Topics: Composition, Time Management, The Mizzou International Composers Festival, and Alarm Will Sound.
3:11 Composing for percussion as a percussionist
6:53 Megan: The Mizzou International Composers Festival and Alarm Will Sound
18:00 Eric's experience at MICF
20:18 Preparing your composition portfolio for a competition
25:55 Composers Circle - one composer every day for three years
34:49 Ted Jackson: What is your general composition process and how often do you stick to it?
42:37 Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Habit 3: first thing's first, time management
55:54 "Meditation and Awakening" and singing bowl demonstration
1:01:07 Eric's works for percussion
1:04:23 Wrap
