Hi, Wise!

When I first heard the Game of Thrones theme, years ago, I rolled my eyes... ja ja ja... And now, omigod, it's stuck in my brain and I have to admit that it's bluntly effective. I wish they had called me, though. I'd do a lot more with staggered strings, blends of unusual colors, themes reacting to one another, etc. You know, the good stuff. :)

As to how I started to do this... I always enjoyed music and would improvise at the piano, but I didn't know that you could be professional. So, I was scholastically a high achiever and in high school, was studying Russian literature, language, politics... This was the time of Gorbachev, glasnost, the Wall was tumbling in Europe, regimes changing in Latin America. I thought I was going to be a political science major and I was likely headed to law school. But in the summer of my last year of high school, I took a music composition program, and was changed instantly. I fell -- hard -- for composing.

I knew, then, that I had a lot of catching up to do. I didn't know much repertoire and even my music-reading skills weren't the best. But, somewhere inside me, I also thought the world needed me... lol... innocent hubris of my youth and all that... I never looked back, though. I'm very grateful.