News and Updates
Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Changes
2024 was a year a tremendous changes for my life, and all that change seemed to have drained my creativity completely. Brian and I decided in mid 2023 that we would become expats (somewhere), and finally decided on France. We didn't do the "recommended" approach of...
Arthur Breur on Zeitgeist Radio Podcast
Arthur Breur was the guest on episode 26 of the Zeitgeist Radio Podcast with host Morgan Roe. Links to the Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Summary Arthur Breur is a composer, pianist, and host of the Melodology Podcast. We discuss his unique approach to creativity, his...
The World Premiere of “Amber the Ambitious Spider” a Narrated Musical Tale
I'm very exited to announce that on Sunday Feb 5, 2023, at 3pm the Tualatin Valley Symphony, located in Tigard, Oregon and conducted by Dr. Mark Perlman, will be the first orchestra to perform "Amber the Ambitious Spider", a Narrated Musical Tale! Here is the link to...
Introducing Amber the Ambitious Spider!
As many of you know, in addition to being a composer, I'm also a writer. On that note, I'm excited to announce that I have created a delightful new character - Amber the Ambitious Spider! In the video below I share the real-life experience that inspired this creation...
A Thank You to Lisa and Dave
Arthur Breur presents on the 2022 Ultimate Music Business Summit
Arthur Breur is joining other music business subject experts presenting January 6 - 8, 2022 in the 2022 Ultimate Music Business Summit (www.MusicSummit.biz). This year, he will be presenting with fellow composers Lisa Neher and Garrett Hope, discussing creating...
Other People’s Money… Knots
I recently experienced an interesting “money knot” situation that I thought other composers (and artists in general) might find value in. First, a little bit of my own history. I have composed music my entire life, and I consider it my best talent and skill. But I...
The Meddler
Like many artists, I've struggled all my life with my own self image and with self-defeating behaviors. In the past eight years or so, I've been gradually moving myself back into composing and performing, with increasing success—but also with increasing internal...
Art Is Business: Why I Joined a Chamber of Commerce
I've been a composer most of my life, and a business owner for 15 years—I started "Breur Media Corporation" in July of 2001, and rebranded it as FireSpike LLC in 2013. Most of those years, the company has belonged to some business organization or another, including:...
My Grandmother Jocelyn Would Be Proud
When we lose a loved one, we often redirect the emotion invested in that person into other areas of our lives. In my case, this happened very clearly upon the loss of my grandmother Jocelyn. Jocelyn was my paternal grandfather's second wife. They were divorced by the...
Muppets as Musical Influence
Folks usually laugh when I mention that the Jim Henson's Muppets were a big musical influence on my composing style and sensibilities, but it's totally true. I was fortunate enough to be at a very formative age when both Sesame Street got really moving and when the...
Thoughts On My Composing Style
There seems to be an idea out there that any serious 21st Century composer must be making music that is "cutting edge" or "experimental" or some other "far out" description. But why should that be the case? Consider the culinary arts. Yes, there are very talented...
- Arthur Breur is preparing the initial season of his new podcast, “The Melodology Podcast” in which he will be reviewing popular and catchy melodies with guest composers.
- Arthur Breur’s new work, “The Comeback Fanfare” will be premiered December 5, 2021 by the Tualatin Valley Symphony, Dr. Mark Perlman conducting.
- Arthur Breur will be attending the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, December 15-18, 2021, with The Portfolio Composers Collective (www.BandComposers.com). His arrangement of “Nina Bobo”, a traditional Indonesian Lullaby (Grade 2) will be performed there on Wednesday, December 15th by the Byron Nelson High School Symphony Orchestra, Gary Keller, Director.
Past news and events
- Arthur Breur presents on the 2021 Ultimate Music Business Summit
- Two works by Arthur Breur were selected for the 2019 Midwest Clinic orchestral reading sessions: “Mastodons & Megafauna”, an excerpt from his Tualatin Overture (Grade 3), and “Nina Bobo”, an arrangement of a traditional Indonesian Lullaby (Grade 2).
- Arthur Breur will be attending Midwest Clinic in December 2019 for his second year with The Portfolio Composers Collective (www.BandComposers.com).
- “Area A: A ‘Thank You For Being So’ Suite” was premiered on December 8, 2019 by the Tualatin Valley Community Band. The five-movement suite was composed by the members of the TPC Collective: Katherine Bergman, Arthur Breur, Garrett Hope, and Chris Teichler, as a thank you to a patron. Each movement reflects the personality of one of that patron’s five children.
- June 9, 2019: Arthur Breur’s Tualatin Overture included in “Oregon Composers Concert” by Tualatin Valley Symphony.
- December 2018: “Tuesday Night Overture”—the 30-year celebration piece for the Tualatin Valley Community Band—premiered at TVCB holiday concert.
- July 3, 2018: 44th Air Defense Artillery March (“Per Ardua”) score and parts now available for purchase upon request.
- April 15, 2018: Orchestral arrangement of the traditional Indonesian lullaby, “Nina Bobo”, performed by Tualatin Valley Symphony, Isolde Knaap guest conductor.
- June 26, 2017: Tualatin Overture by Arthur Breur proclaimed the official overture of the City of Tualatin.
- Tualatin Overture premiered by the Tualatin Valley Symphony, May 21, 2017, Dr. Mark Perlman conducting.
