Everything Band Podcast

Composer Nicole Piunno joins me to tell her remarkable story of resiliency, to describe her career as a composer and trumpet player, and to share her thoughts about music and the band community. Topics: Nicole's background and the remarkable string of events that forced her to reinvent herself several times in her musical career. The injury to her trumpet embouchure that required surgery and how that injury and a comment from a colleague launched her career as a composer. Meeting David Gillingham and how he invited her to study with him at Central Michigan University. Thoughts about being a self-published composer and advice for young composers. Links: Nicole Piunno, composer David Gillingham: Be Thou My Vision Nicole Piunno: Beauty Broken Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Biography: Nicole Piunno (b. 1985) is a composer who views music as a vehicle for seeing and experiencing the realities of life. Her music often reflects the paradoxes in life and how these seemingly opposites are connected as they ofte