In this episode you’ll hear

Composer: Lisa Young
Website:  lisayoungmusic.com

interviewed by: Lisa Cheney
Website: www.lisacheney.com.au

This conversation was recorded on the 26th of November in 2016, at Lisa Young’s home studio in Warrandyte, Victoria.

Show Notes

“My advice is to just be true to yourself: to know who you are, be good at what you’re good at, be masterful at what comes naturally to you and work really hard at the rest.”

Victorian-based Lisa Young is a celebrated composer, singer, vocal percussion artist, associate lecturer and voice specialist at the Box Hill Institute. In this episode Lisa Cheney speaks to Lisa about her recently completed PhD, life as a musician, south-Indian and jazz influences on her music and even tips on maintain mental wellbeing in a challenging field.

Music in this Episode

The Internal Pulse by Lisa Young
Performed by the Lisa Young Quartet

Other Plans by Lisa Young
Performed by The Australian Voices or Coco’s Lunch

The Eternal Pulse (full album) by Lisa Young
Performed by the Lisa Young Quartet

The music you heard in the opening and closing credits is:
I/O (2014), by Eli Simic-Prosic
For diskclavier, recorded by the composer.
Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/eli-simic-prosic

Production Credits

The Making Conversation: Australian Composers’ Podcast is brought to you by Making Waves.
This episode was recorded and produced by: Lisa Cheney
Audio consultant: Daniel Thorpe
Mixing and Mastering: Thomas Green
Executive Producers: Lisa Cheney & Peggy Polias Making Waves

With Thanks

The Making Conversation Podcast has been made possible with the generous support of:

Project Patron: Cameron Lam of Kammerklang

Production Donors: Kieren Paynter, Nigel Poole, PLEXUS, Callum Moncrieff, Constance Barberakis, David John Lang, Christopher Gordon, Anne Gill, Brian Howard, Caroline Thompson, Leah Barclay and Jocelyn Wolfe and all who contributed to the successful crowdfunding campaign

Making Conversation is supported by Creative Partnerships Australia through MATCH.

Music in this Episode

The music you heard in the video is:
I/O (2014), by Eli Simic-Prosic
For diskclavier, recorded by the composer.
Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/eli-simic-prosic

Production Credits

The Making Conversation: Australian Composers’ Podcast is brought to you by Making Waves.
This episode was recorded and produced by: Lisa Cheney
Video editor: Ryan O’Donnell, RPO video
Executive Producers: Lisa Cheney & Peggy Polias Making Waves