Jacob Fitzgerald on piano exams, programming, pens and provoking online comments

Jacob Fitzgerald is a composer of contemporary music. A piece Jacob wrote whilst studying music at school has been on the Trinity College London grade 8 piano syllabus. He explains how that came about, where the idea started and the response it’s had online.

Jacob discusses the programming of living composers’ music in concerts. Whilst he’s appreciative of opportunities, Jacob says sometimes it can be frustrating to be a token piece of new music.

Jacob says he tries to start writing music by hand, before inputting it into a computer. He says he composes quickly and doesn’t make many revisions of each piece.