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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My new video talks about my journey as an artist, studying with great modernist composers like George Benjamin and Harrison Birtwistle before eventually figuring out how, to use a well worn phrase, to 'find my own voice'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cX4...

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Why I stopped trying to write F***ing MASTERPIECES

YouTube video by David Bruce Composer

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

David Bennett asks the same questions as my mum about being a composer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuh0...

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

How to make a violin sound like a bagpipe. The guide you never knew you needed

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

LA performance of my new piece 'Natural Light' tonight with Camerata Pacifica

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you're in LA/Santa Barbara areas do come to one of the performances of my new wind quintet (actually a sextet because I'll be performing the optional gong part). Details below. Would love to say hi if you come cameratapacifica.org

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Have you ever heard clarinet notes this high? Clip from my new video about the highest notes ever composed, featured clarinettist Petros Andreadis

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Check out my son's new channel interviewing online business people....like me 🎺🎺🎺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj3...

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How I Did It: 0-330k Subs In 5 Years At 50 Years Old

YouTube video by Oskar Bruce

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A new in-depth video on Gamelan and its relationship with 20th Century Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7M2...

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When Cultural Appropriation is...OK?

YouTube video by David Bruce Composer

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Join me for a late night Prom featuring the piece I originally wrote for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, 'Cut the Rug', performed here by Avi Avital's amazing Between Worlds. 9th Sept 10.15pm. Rumour has it I might also be found in the Queen's Arms pub in the hours beforehand 😊 #bbcproms

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Honoured to be the arranger of this first single "Tarantella di Sannicandro" from Avi Avital's Between Worlds album - out today, Full album out May 30 www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/catalogue... (oh and did I mention, we'll be at the BBC Proms in September 😍)

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A few years ago @tantacrul.bsky.social made a hilarious and accurate video about Sibelius software which eventually led to us becoming good friends. He's now completed the last of the music notation review series with this fun look at Finale and its demise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqao...

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Finale - How Music Software Dies

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Todd Palmer premiered Gumboots 17yrs ago in Carnegie Hall. This May 3rd and 4th he performs it again with Catalyst Quartet in Noe Music, San Francisco, and in Monterey Bay www.noemusic.org www.chambermusicmontereybay.org/cmmb/concert...

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Great to meet and share thoughts and music with these wonderful composers at the first ever David Bruce Composer Workshop ). Video from the day will be up on my patreon later! Thanks to Ben Phair, Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy Photos Yannis Gutmann

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Get your scores in for this composition prize and a change to get your piece performed by Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. I'll be on the judging panel :-) www.mitropouloscompetition.gr

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

A new video about the end of Sibelius's 5th Symphony is available on my YouTubes, entitled "Why so Grumpy, Mr. Sibelius?" youtu.be/iKgaQ-lHzcg

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Why so Grumpy, Mr. Sibelius?

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Over 50 applicants for my Composing Workshop in March, thanks to everyone who applied. Very much looking forward to meeting Caroline Tyler, Camilo Espinosa, Anna Disley-Simpson, Kit McCarthy and Ben Phair. The workshop will be available on my patreon.

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Harmonium, celesta and soprano. Very cool combo!

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Last few days to apply for this. Lots of great applications already, but still room for YOURS! 🤩

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Jacob Collier's Audience Choir is a unique experiment in turning a crowd into an instrument. I break down how it works, and look at far its come - how to make cluster chords and modulations, just by waving your hands! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpCN... @jacobcollier

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The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir

YouTube video by David Bruce Composer

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I think this is something we all need a lot more of. Hendrix Star Spangled Banner on Multiphonic Bassoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1O...

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Hendrix "Star-Spangled Banner" Bassoon multiphonic tribute

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

An opportunity for UK-based composers

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

An opportunity for UK-based composers

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"Sibelius' 5th symphony ending - the worst, most nerdy and silly ending ever." Discuss.

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New Video where do a bit of musical detective work: The Secret Rewrite Behind Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUo...

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The Secret Rewrite Behind Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

When you create a fancy intro card and look at it 100 times without realising you've made a dumb typo.

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Gumboots as ballet in Manchester tonight 😍

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

UK-based composers: interested in a free composing masterclass? I’ll be offering 5 spots for a day of feedback and discussion, probably in March 2025. Get your best piece ready to submit, more details will follow shortly. Feel free to ask questions below.

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Lots of people have ideas for a tune or a piece of music but don't know what to do next. Here are 50 quick ways of taking your compositional idea to the next level (I used 'chopsticks' as a simple idea to work with) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSH...

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50 Ways to Compose Using "Chopsticks"

YouTube video by David Bruce Composer

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

New composers (and sometimes old ones) often come up with an idea and then don't know what to do with it. My next video has 50+ suggestions. What's your favourite technique for developing a musical idea?

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The US Premiere of Lully Loops with Daniel Hope and New Century Chamber Orchestra in Berkeley tomorrow Thurs 14th, with further performances in San Francisco and beyond over the weekend. Full details here: www.ncco.org/24-25-season...

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Reports coming in of David Bruce Composer videos being shown in a lecture at Oxford Uni today. Good to see standards of University education remain high.😂

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

New video is going to be about musical dissonance. Please write below how you would define dissonance.

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David Bruce @davidbrucecomposer.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Don't use it myself, but making Finale unusable on new devices for people who've already bought it seems like a pretty low move. I heard MakeMusic were trying to sell Finale for a while; did Dorico just pay to kill it, in exchange for "providing a pathway" to their product?

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