Everything Band Podcast

Julie Giroux joins the show to talk about her remarkable career as a composer and orchestrator as well as her generosity, love of video games, and diversity in music.  Topics: Julie’s background growing up in Louisiana and how she went from playing the piano by ear to Los Angeles orchestrating for one of the biggest mini-series of the 1980’s just days after her graduation from LSU. Some stories and anecdotes from her time writing for film and television, including the why she stopped playing her French horn. The importance of orchestration and how it is the most crucial learned skill for composers. Julie’s love of role-playing video games and how they help her be creative, the video game industry, and what games we’re playing right now during the pandemic. Julie’s generosity and how the person that is doing the giving benefits the most. Julie gives me a composition tip that I really needed to hear and just when I think the interview is over we end up talking for 20 more minutes about women and diversity in m