{"podcast":{"title":"Composer Chats","slug":"composer-chats-6643824","podcast_index_feed_id":6643824,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/composer-chats/","website_url":"https://composerchats.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/655710b9-e929-4cf3-a689-e8f92a560db9/IobsXKSc4sTLeGzmqjSeO5lq.jpg","author":"Jason K. Nitsch","episode_count":104,"summary":"Composer Chat is a podcast where we talk a little bit about music, a little bit about life, and a whole lot about whatever we feel like at the moment! Each episode I am joined by a special guest composer and we will chat about their pathway towards success in their musical career!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T04:20:31.076036+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/composer-chats-6643824"},"episode":{"title":"2.38 - Mara Gibson","slug":"2-38-mara-gibson","published_at":"2025-10-14T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/composer-chats-6643824/2-38-mara-gibson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/composer-chats-6643824","url":"https://composerchats.com/episode/2-38-mara-gibson","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/937be7fa-823d-4cb0-90b9-86e9ec0efdf5.mp3","summary":"Composer Mara Gibson is originally from Charlottesville, VA, graduated from Bennington College, and completed her Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo. She has received grants and honors from the American Composer’s Forum, the Banff Center, Louisiana Division of the Arts, ArtsKC, Meet the Composer, the Kansas Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International Bass Society, ASCAP, the John Hendrick Memorial Commission, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Yale University. Internationally renowned ensembles and soloists perform her music throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Asia, and Europe. Dr. Gibson has had performances of her works at prestigious festivals and universities around the country and the world, most notably Mostly Modern Festival (New York), the Bowling Green New Music Festival (Ohio), Amici Della Musica (Udine, Italy), University of Melbourne (Australia), Thailand International Composition Festival (performances in multiple consecutive years), Reaktorhallen (Stockholm, Sweden), Daegu International Computer Music Festival (Korea) and the Beijing Modern Music Festival. Dr. Gibson has taught at the UMKC Conservatory as Associate Professor where she was the founder of the UMKC Composition Workshop and co-director/founder of ArtSounds. Starting fall 2017, she joined the faculty of Louisiana State University where she is currently Associate Professor of Composition and Area Head with tenure. Mara released her first compilation album  ArtIfacts  May 2015 with her second,  Skyborn  released in November 2017 and in 2020, she was selected through PARMA Recordings for their recording project with the Athens Philharmonic Orchestra with Secret Sky ( Prisma V ). In 2024, she released her third portr…","meta_description":"Composer Mara Gibson is originally from Charlottesville, VA, graduated from Bennington College, and completed her Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo. She has received…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3543,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/composer-chats-6643824/episodes/2-38-mara-gibson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/composer-chats-6643824/2-38-mara-gibson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}