Sentence examples for full-time composer from inspiring English sources

By the early 50's he had given up playing to become a full-time composer and arranger.

Naturally I loved the money: however, around 1965, I decided to quit and dedicate the rest of my life to composition". He flew back to London and became a full-time composer.

I wanted to be able to look back and say: "If my viola hadn't been stolen, then I would never have …" And what I wanted most of all was to become a full-time composer.

Xenakis was no architectural dilettante: before he became a full-time composer, he worked with Le Corbusier for a decade after his arrival in Paris from Greece in 1947.

The general dilemma for voters is this: do you reward Mr. Brooks, in recognition of his accomplishment as a noncomposer who composed a very successful score, or do you give it to Mr. Yazbek, to encourage a full-time composer who's likely to write other successful scores?

He was not a full-time composer and did not copyright any other songs, his son said, adding that his father wrote "The Hokey Pokey Dance" with a musician friend, Joe Brier, while playing for the summer at a resort near the Delaware Water Gap.

She is the first full-time classical composer to receive a MacArthur since Osvaldo Golijov, in 2003.

The first major full-time professional composer in Russia was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a member of the initial graduating class of Rubinstein's conservatory.

Since winning the Oscar, Reznor has had a flurry of offers; but he's wary about becoming a full-time movie composer.

By William Robin September 22, 2016 Julia Wolfe, a co-founder of the new-music collective Bang on a Can, is the first full-time classical composer to win a "genius" grant since 2003.

His reputation grew steadily and by 1955 he was working full-time as a composer and conductor of his own light orchestra.