Check out my son's new channel interviewing online business people....like me 🎺🎺🎺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj3...

A new in-depth video on Gamelan and its relationship with 20th Century Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7M2...

Join me for a late night Prom featuring the piece I originally wrote for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, 'Cut the Rug', performed here by Avi Avital's amazing Between Worlds. 9th Sept 10.15pm. Rumour has it I might also be found in the Queen's Arms pub in the hours beforehand 😊 #bbcproms

A post about artistic hubris www.youtube.com/shorts/G1WOB...

Honoured to be the arranger of this first single "Tarantella di Sannicandro" from Avi Avital's Between Worlds album - out today, Full album out May 30 www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue... (oh and did I mention, we'll be at the BBC Proms in September 😍)

A few years ago @tantacrul.bsky.social made a hilarious and accurate video about Sibelius software which eventually led to us becoming good friends. He's now completed the last of the music notation review series with this fun look at Finale and its demise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqao...

Todd Palmer premiered Gumboots 17yrs ago in Carnegie Hall. This May 3rd and 4th he performs it again with Catalyst Quartet in Noe Music, San Francisco, and in Monterey Bay www.noemusic.org www.chambermusicmontereybay.org/cmmb/concert...

youtu.be/2rJY9g7bfSg New video out today. Rapping at the Royal College of Music

Great to meet and share thoughts and music with these wonderful composers at the first ever David Bruce Composer Workshop ). Video from the day will be up on my patreon later! Thanks to Ben Phair, Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy Photos Yannis Gutmann

Get your scores in for this composition prize and a change to get your piece performed by Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. I'll be on the judging panel :-) www.mitropouloscompetition.gr

A new video about the end of Sibelius's 5th Symphony is available on my YouTubes, entitled "Why so Grumpy, Mr. Sibelius?" youtu.be/iKgaQ-lHzcg

Over 50 applicants for my Composing Workshop in March, thanks to everyone who applied. Very much looking forward to meeting Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy and Ben Phair. The workshop will be available on my patreon.

Thanks for the shout out @theguardian.com

Harmonium, celesta and soprano. Very cool combo!

Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩

Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩

Jacob Collier's Audience Choir is a unique experiment in turning a crowd into an instrument. I break down how it works, and look at far its come - how to make cluster chords and modulations, just by waving your hands! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN... @jacobcollier

New Video: The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN...

I think this is something we all need a lot more of. Hendrix Star Spangled Banner on Multiphonic Bassoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1O...

A new video all about the amazing mind of Ben Nobuto www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKz...

An opportunity for UK-based composers

An opportunity for UK-based composers

"Sibelius' 5th symphony ending - the worst, most nerdy and silly ending ever." Discuss.

New Video where do a bit of musical detective work: The Secret Rewrite Behind Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUo...

When you create a fancy intro card and look at it 100 times without realising you've made a dumb typo.

Gumboots as ballet in Manchester tonight 😍

UK-based composers: interested in a free composing masterclass? I’ll be offering 5 spots for a day of feedback and discussion, probably in March 2025. Get your best piece ready to submit, more details will follow shortly. Feel free to ask questions below.

Lots of people have ideas for a tune or a piece of music but don't know what to do next. Here are 50 quick ways of taking your compositional idea to the next level (I used 'chopsticks' as a simple idea to work with) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSH...

New composers (and sometimes old ones) often come up with an idea and then don't know what to do with it. My next video has 50+ suggestions. What's your favourite technique for developing a musical idea?

The US Premiere of Lully Loops with Daniel Hope and New Century Chamber Orchestra in Berkeley tomorrow Thurs 14th, with further performances in San Francisco and beyond over the weekend. Full details here: www.ncco.org/24-25-season...

Reports coming in of David Bruce Composer videos being shown in a lecture at Oxford Uni today. Good to see standards of University education remain high.😂

New video out today: "Everyone Hates DISSONANCE. But Everyone's Wrong."

New video is going to be about musical dissonance. Please write below how you would define dissonance.

Don't use it myself, but making Finale unusable on new devices for people who've already bought it seems like a pretty low move. I heard MakeMusic were trying to sell Finale for a while; did Dorico just pay to kill it, in exchange for "providing a pathway" to their product?