TCC 28. Concerto for 6 String Electric Violin - Will Davenport
This episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration features the composer Will Davenport and his piece Concerto for 6 String Electric Violin. Music theorist Aaron D’Zurilla talks with Will about his year in composition, reflections on graduate studies, writing a masters thesis, orchestrating electric strings, composing large pieces, and how to get the most out of academic study.
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Performance credits for Concerto for 6 String Electric Violin:
Soloist: Noah J. Gruenberg
Violins: Emelia Ulrich, Chris Chiarotti
Viola: Jacob Grice
Cello: Thu Vu
Bass: Maximillian Levesque
Conductor: Brian Junttila
Aaron D'Zurilla
Theorist/TCC Founder
He/Him
Aaron D'Zurilla is the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. With diverse research interests in both modern classical composition and rap, Aaron has presented work at the 2025 Indiana University Symposium of Research in Music, with a paper titled: “Guess Who’s Back: Narrative Subversions in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)". In a currently forthcoming presentation, Aaron will also present at the 2025 Analytical Approaches to World Musics Symposium on the Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia, with a paper titled: "International and Personal Tragedy in "A Vietnamese Mother’s Letter to Nixon" (2023)". Aaron also has a forthcoming publication through SMT-Pod, titled: "Trauma and Vocal Timbre in Ellen Reid’s p r i s m (2019)"
Aaron holds a Bachelor's of Music in Music Theory from the University of Florida and a Master's of Music in Music Theory from Florida State University.
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Will Davenport
Composer
He/Him
Will Davenport is an internationally performed, American midwest-based composer currently working towards his master’s at Florida State University under Dr. Liliya Ugay. He recently graduated from Ohio University where he studied under Dr. Robert W. McClure and Dr. Mark Phillips. Davenport’s music mixes aesthetics from the past with modern techniques in new and unique ways in order to communicate the strangeness of currently being alive. With each piece, Davenport ventures into personally unexplored territories and thrives to collaborate with other composers and musicians as much as possible; creating with other people drives his passion for making.
Contact:
wdavenportcomposer@gmail.com
