The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

052: The Drive to Continually Create with Nathan Kelly

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Nathan Kelly is an American composer in Los Angeles, best known for working as an arranger for recording artists such as Joss Stone, Andrea Bocelli, Dionne Warwick, The Tony Awards, and film scores.

Kelly studied music composition at the University of Texas, film scoring at the University of Southern California, and took further education at the Juilliard School of Music, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, Aspen Music School, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bowdoin, Maine, and the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, Seattle. His composition teachers were Tobias Picker and film composer Bruce Broughton.

 

 

Key Take Aways:
  • When you're really connected with you purpose, and what you want to do, a lot of times you things just start coming through for you, over time
  • Ask as many specific questions as you can. When you're working on a project, this is the best way to upfront know what is expected from you, and save yourself a lot of pain later
  • Success in music often comes down to communication
  • It's important to make non-musicians feel comfortable to express music in whatever way that they can - without any technical understanding
  • A lot of times, we don't even think about the amazing musicians and creatives that are already in our network
  • Output is what you will, at the end of the day, be judged on. Finish projects

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    Learn more about Nathan:

    NathanKelly.com

     

     

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