{"id":59316,"date":"2019-03-14T16:42:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=59316"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:43:30","slug":"qa-15-questions-composer-bekah-simms-video-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2019\/03\/14\/qa-15-questions-composer-bekah-simms-video-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A | 15 Questions For Composer Bekah Simms (video edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Bekah_Simms-QA-Ludwig-Van.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Bekah_Simms-QA-Ludwig-Van.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Bekah_Simms-QA-Ludwig-Van-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Bekah_Simms-QA-Ludwig-Van-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t\u00a0need to look far to find composers in Canada propelling classical music into a promising future. One of the\u00a0brightest lights shining the way is Newfoundland-born, now Toronto-based composer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bekahsimms.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Bekah Simms<\/a>. Her work &#8220;Granitic&#8221; is nominated for the 2019 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. In 2016 the CBC included her among their annual 30 hot classical musicians under 30. Besides composition, she&#8217;s also the co-artistic director of Caution Tape Sound Collective which presents concerts of forward-thinking repertoire since 2015. This is a composer you keep your eye on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VGc8rMktY40?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full details and tickets here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espritorchestra.com\/outreach\/new-wave-reprise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.espritorchestra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<h2>Read more Q&amp;A\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/category\/q-and-a\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a>.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of Ludwig Van&#8217;s Q&#038;A, we chat with Bekah Simms about the best and worst things about being a composer, her biggest phobia, and the inspiration behind her new commission for the Esprit Orchestra, &#8220;Foreverdark&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25164,18,29,5009,63],"tags":[9619,4393],"yst_prominent_words":[12401,6767,6973,15877],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Bekah_Simms-QA-Ludwig-Van.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-fqI","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65546,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59316\/revisions\/65546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59316"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}