Hannah Boissonneault reflects on the evolving attitudes toward genre and identity within classical music — and how her own experience in academic spaces revealed both barriers and opportunities. She shares how supportive mentors and collaborative communities helped her break away from rigid definitions of what a “composer” should be, and how that shift opened up a more expansive, personal, and integrated creative practice.

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Shruthi Rajasekar reflects on growing up in a deeply musical household shaped by her mother’s work as a Carnatic vocalist and collaborator across cultures. She and Tyler talk about the intersections of Indian and Western classical traditions, early encounters with instruments like the cello and clarinet, and the way curiosity and openness became part of her musical DNA.

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For Graeme Shields, composing started as play—long afternoons with friends huddled around the family computer, experimenting with Finale and discovering the thrill of sound on command. Those early experiments evolved into something more intentional: arranging, composing, and eventually finding community at the Junior Composers Institute, where he met living composers and heard his music performed for the first time. A conversation about how curiosity becomes commitment.

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