Broadway actor George Abud brings his knowledge of Arabic music and the oud to the Inception Podcast. He is joined by Huxley Westemeier, a composer in the Inception Orchestra Young Composers Mentoring Program, who played George's son in the world premiere of August Rush. The interview discussing George's journey to Broadway and beyond is highlighted by a spectacular demo of George performing on the oud.

Hosted by Akira Nakano

Classical Saxophone Project
Javier Oviedo
Jean-Pierre Schmitt

Music for Lebanon

Mentions:
Charles Fernandez
Nathan Wang
Preston Scales

New Podcast:
Angela Urrecheaga
Elliana Escamilla
Aeralie Brighton

Inception Mentor favorite, Preston Scales, an R&B producer, singer and songwriter, shares his journey from the church to the studio and his philosophy behind his mentoring technique. We listen into a master class with Inception student, Angela Urrecheaga.

And we are fortunate to share the WORLD PREMIERES of TWO of Preston's new singles: "Can't Hardly Wait" and "Problem".

Preston will be the featured master class mentor on the Inception August 7th culmination Event. 

Mentions:
Instagram: @prestonscales

American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers
Classical Saxophone Project

Andrew Frishman, Co-Executive Director of Big Picture Learning, a nation-wide school system... and the father of two of our young composers, joins us to share his insights on the Inception Orchestra Young Composers Mentoring Program. 

He will talk how his children have positively taken to Inception and about the opportunity that every youngster should explore.

Los Angeles Inception Orchestra
Big Picture Learning
Fox Family Foundation
Project InSight

Film & concert composer, Genevieve Vincent, joined us initially on the very first day of our Covid-mandated virtual cohort in March 2020. She shares with us her music journey from Suzuki violin to the Royal Conservatory of Music to Berklee College and onto a brilliant music career.

She found success during the shut-down, scoring her first studio film, The Broken Hearts Gallery and, more recently, Safer At Home coming out on Hulu on June 27, 2021.

Today she shares her music and insights into composing.

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Instagram - @youarecanadian
Website - genevievevincent.com
darkDARK Instagram - darkdarkmusic

Broken Hearts Gallery - Natalie Krinsky, Director - Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV 

Safer At Home - Will Wernick, Director - Hulu June 27. 2021 

Moving Art: Hokkaido - Louie Schwartzberg, Director  - Netflix 

Today on the Inception Podcast we speak to Inception Vice President Jack Aron and our longest tenured composer, Christopher Lee.  We ask Jack about his arrival at Inception and what he loves about the program. And we talk to Chris about his Inception journey, having been with the program both in-studio and on zoom.

www.inceptionorchestra.org
www.asmac.org
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/

Jack Aron
Chris Lee
Akira Nakano

Inception Founder Akira Nakano talks to Inception Executive Vice President Karen Elaine, one of Hollywood's top calls for viola to discover why she volunteers her time week after week to the Inception Orchestra Young Composers Mentoring Program.  We'll discover why she has opened her rolodex along with the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC) to help bring top tiered musicians, composers and arrangers to help our students in music composition.

We will also listen in on a mentoring session with Oud player, George Abud, as he brings his unbelievable musicianship to the table.

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www.asmac.org

Karen Elaine
Akira Nakano
George Abud
Mark Watters
Charles Fernandez