What does it mean to be a musician in 2021?

Over the past year, I’ve been working with music students from a high school on Mercer Island in Seattle to create of a new piece of music for their wind band. The project started with me writing the music for them to record individually, which we would then put together for the final audio, but it very quickly turned into a much bigger project. It became a huge collaborative effort, and I ended up working very closely with the students in developing the piece. All this made me think about what it means to be a musician in 2021, after so many people were forced to stop playing in 2020. And this is what this video is about - it’s about the project itself, but it’s also about what it means to make music after a global pandemic. Watch the full video recording: Musical director: Parker Bixby Audio engineer: Jacob Krieger To get access to the score, as well as the additional audio (used at the beginning of the video), sign up to my Patreon: ▶ Support my channel: ▶ Subscribe: ____________________ ▶ Website: ▶ Twitter: Thank you to my all my amazing supporters on Patreon, but in particular to my Perfect Fifth supporters: David Ball, Pavel Makeenko, Max Braun, Hamish Madden, Andrew Wong, David Wiley