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Interview with Daniel Asia
December 28, 2012
Daniel Asia is a composer. For information about his work, visit www.danielasia.net.
Tibbetts: How long have you composed music?
Asia: Since I was about 15.
Tibbetts: What made you decide to pursue composition as a career?
Asia: I couldn't keep away from it. But writing music is hardly a career in the normal sense of the word. It is, I think, a calling.
Tibbetts: Would you describe your compositional process?
Asia: Sit down every day for 3-4 hours and try like hell to write some decent music.
Tibbetts: How do you evaluate the quality of your work?
Asia: If I love the piece when I am done, I trust that others will find it loveable as well.
Tibbetts: Would you identify some music you've written which you feel exemplifies high quality?
Asia: I try not to let anything out of my studio that I don't think is of high quality.
Tibbetts: Do you have any unfulfilled compositional ambitions?
Asia: Getting my next piece commissioned, written, and performed.
Tibbetts: Generally, what advice would you offer to aspiring composers?
Asia: You must be totally committed to writing music, without the expectation of success, whatever that means to you. It is a difficult and lonely endeavor. However, if it is what you must do, there is nothing more satisfying, personally rewarding, or meaningful.
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