Great conversation with Executive Director of Mata Festival Pauline Kim Harris and featured composer Jessie Cox.

Music at the Anthology (MATA) celebrates its 27th Annual Festival with performances at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn from June 11th to 14th 2025

Titled Intergalactic Infinity: Music Between Spaces, the festival promises to be an incredible few days of sounds, creativity and imagination, that will blow your mind.

The episode serves as a way to dive in into the world of MATA, the process of curating a festival of this caliber, and a behind the scene view into the creative process of composers, their source of inspiration, their grit, how they view the future of music and a lot of fun topics you will love!

We cannot wait for you to learn more about MATA

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Mata Festival 2025

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Guests:

Pauline Kim Harris - https://www.paulinekimharris.com/

Jessie Cox - https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/

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A highly entertaining and informative conversation with 6 time GRAMMY-nominated violinist & composer
Curtis Stewart. In the episode, Curtis talks about tearing down the facade of "classical violinist" and his constant pursuit of his musical authenticity, treating art as a battery for realizing citizenship. His creative process, his upbringings, upcoming projects, are all part of this 60 min talk with him, as he gets ready for Grammy week where he has 2 nominations!

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Special Guest: Curtis Stewart

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Violist and Comedian Isabel joins Ian and Sami in a dynamic and fun conversation in which she dives into her life, going into details about the shift in her career, the viola, her standup comedy routines, her appearances in the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, her upcoming projects, goals and a lot more.

Also, for the first time, we will be posting our full episode on YouTube (highly recommended) Please subscribe to our channel for notification on when that will be published!

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Thanks to our corporate sponsor ⁠U.S. PAVE⁠ for their continued support!

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Co-hosts: Sami Merdinian: ⁠@samimerdinian⁠ - Ian Loew: @lunchmeat1836

Producer: Sami Merdinian

Special Guest: Isabel Hagen

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TikTok: @isabelhagen

isabelhagen.com

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