Composing Myself is an official Wise Music Group Podcast celebrating Wise Music’s 50th anniversary, presented by CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham. Over the course of this series, we will be talking to various Wise composers around the world about their lives in and out of music.
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Composing Myself is an official Wise Music Group Podcast celebrating Wise Music’s 50th anniversary, presented by CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham. Over the course of this series, we will be talking to various Wise composers around the world about their lives in and out of music.
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British-American composer and force of nature Tarik O’Regan meets Wise Music Group CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham in this whirlwind of an episode of Composing Myself. Conversational ping-pongs gently batted about the table this week include:
- driverless taxis in San Francisco and “the dominance of tech” in our everyday lives
- John-Paul Jones and the aborted arrow dance
- a brief stint in banking
- what the devil is a fugue?
- long childhood car journeys listening to Led Zeppelin, Madonna and a selection of local Algerian oud players
- a fascinating, globe-spanning family tree including great-great-great grandfather, renowned Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, and the influence it's had on Tarik’s musical output
- the not-entirely-pressure-free task of composing for none other than the coronation of King Charles III
Tarik is a brilliant raconteur and this ebullient episode is one of our best yet.
Tarik Hamilton O'Regan is a London-born composer based in San Francisco. In recent years much of his work has investigated and been influenced by his dual Arab and Irish heritages.
Tarik is Composer-in-Residence with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (PBO), where he is also overseeing an ambitious new commissioning initiative. The 2022/23 season sees performances by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, the Carducci Quartet, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Alexander String Quartet, and PBO, and the televised world premiere of a commission from His Majesty King Charles III for The Coronation Service at Westminster Abbey.
Tarik’s output, recognized with two GRAMMY® nominations and two Ivors®, has been recorded on over 40 albums, and is published exclusively by Novello. He maintains a longstanding commitment to education and service to the arts in general. Most recently, this has been recognized by his election to an Honorary Fellowship of Pembroke College, Oxford, and to the board of Yaddo, one of the oldest artists’ communities in the USA. Tarik was also included in the Washington Post’s annual list of creative artists “changing the classical landscape” for 2022.
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