Tina Davidson
@tinadavidson.bsky.social
Composer, author, musician: Her music is “transfigured beauty.” Her book "an unequivocally poetic memoir on love, loss, & music"
Please read my new post about teaching composition through instrument building. tdavid508.substack.com/p/finding-yo...
Finding Your Voice
Holding a large bag of recycled materials – tin cans, soda bottles, and shoe boxes, I pause.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Please read my new post about teaching composition through instrument building. tdavid508.substack.com/p/finding-yo...
Some Things I Have Learned - What I would say to myself as a young composer. Please enjoy my new substack blog: tdavid508.substack.com/p/some-thing...
Some Things I Have Learned
Part 1
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October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Some Things I Have Learned - What I would say to myself as a young composer. Please enjoy my new substack blog: tdavid508.substack.com/p/some-thing...
Thrilled that my music is now available at Just A Theory Press! Check is out: justatheorypress.com/pages/tina-d...
October 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thrilled that my music is now available at Just A Theory Press! Check is out: justatheorypress.com/pages/tina-d...
A few days before voting closes! FOR YOUR CONSIDERATiON, audio book of my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken is intertwined with my original chamber works. Learn more: www.tinadavidson.com/let-your-hea...
October 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A few days before voting closes! FOR YOUR CONSIDERATiON, audio book of my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken is intertwined with my original chamber works. Learn more: www.tinadavidson.com/let-your-hea...
I wanted to share my new substack blog: "as concerned citizens..we never, never underestimate the power of our actions, no matter how small.
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Small Things
The evening in my studio was beginning to darken at a recent Composer Posse gathering.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I wanted to share my new substack blog: "as concerned citizens..we never, never underestimate the power of our actions, no matter how small.
open.substack.com/pub/tdavid50...
open.substack.com/pub/tdavid50...
I am honored that the audio book version of Let Your Heart Be Broken is on the ballot for the GRAMMYs. To learn more about the book and the music that is included please go to: www.tinadavidson.com/let-your-hea...
October 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am honored that the audio book version of Let Your Heart Be Broken is on the ballot for the GRAMMYs. To learn more about the book and the music that is included please go to: www.tinadavidson.com/let-your-hea...
Wonderful stimulating and heartening gathering with our Composer Posse last night. We discussed our music with respect to community engagement - how we inspire, collaborate, educate, connect, stretch, and resist. If you are a composer and would like to join us, please contact me.
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Wonderful stimulating and heartening gathering with our Composer Posse last night. We discussed our music with respect to community engagement - how we inspire, collaborate, educate, connect, stretch, and resist. If you are a composer and would like to join us, please contact me.
My first time being a marshal at a protest! Keeping watch so everyone is safe!
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My first time being a marshal at a protest! Keeping watch so everyone is safe!
Delight to share my new substack post, A Long Tail - music in the mountains. Here is the link to read
tdavid508.substack.com/p/a-long-tail
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A Long Tail
As always, despite my protestations and traveling worries, it is a good place.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Delight to share my new substack post, A Long Tail - music in the mountains. Here is the link to read
tdavid508.substack.com/p/a-long-tail
tdavid508.substack.com/p/a-long-tail
What a lovely interview of the audiobook version of my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken. Thank you Occhi magazine !! Read: occhimagazine.com/in-conversat...
August 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
What a lovely interview of the audiobook version of my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken. Thank you Occhi magazine !! Read: occhimagazine.com/in-conversat...
Today I celebrated the release of my audio book my memoir, "Let Your Hear Be Broken" with a reading a Gretna Music. You can find it here: www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...
August 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Today I celebrated the release of my audio book my memoir, "Let Your Hear Be Broken" with a reading a Gretna Music. You can find it here: www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...
Thrilled that my memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken will be available on August 12th as an audiobook. Included are recordings of my music at the relevant points in my narration, opening the door for listeners to understand and connect more deeply. Pre-order available now: www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...
July 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thrilled that my memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken will be available on August 12th as an audiobook. Included are recordings of my music at the relevant points in my narration, opening the door for listeners to understand and connect more deeply. Pre-order available now: www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...
I am full of motion as I compose, using a kinetic energy that brings out a sweet solidity. I swear that my hand, moving up and down, over and across as I compose with pencil, wakes up a deeper something else. It moves me into the heart of things.
tdavid508.substack.com
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May 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am full of motion as I compose, using a kinetic energy that brings out a sweet solidity. I swear that my hand, moving up and down, over and across as I compose with pencil, wakes up a deeper something else. It moves me into the heart of things.
tdavid508.substack.com
tdavid508.substack.com
Spending a week up in "heaven." A small cabin, no internet and time to read, write and walk with my little dog.
March 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Spending a week up in "heaven." A small cabin, no internet and time to read, write and walk with my little dog.
A wonderful Composer Posse Meeting discussing ways to preserve one's works. Inspiring to be with so many composers, sharing information in support of each other.
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A wonderful Composer Posse Meeting discussing ways to preserve one's works. Inspiring to be with so many composers, sharing information in support of each other.
Just had my web site updated with a new look! Please visit: www.tinadavidson.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just had my web site updated with a new look! Please visit: www.tinadavidson.com
Just started my Substack! Check it out: substack.com/@davidson164...
Tina Davidson, Note by Note | Substack
Music Composer and Author
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February 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Just started my Substack! Check it out: substack.com/@davidson164...
Almost two years since my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer was released. This was a wonderful review by Maria Popova in The Marginalian ❤️
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Let Your Heart Be Broken
“The miracle is that we rise again out of suffering… The miracle is that we create ourselves anew.”
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January 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Almost two years since my memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer was released. This was a wonderful review by Maria Popova in The Marginalian ❤️
www.themarginalian.org/.../let-your...
www.themarginalian.org/.../let-your...
Wonderful video of my piece, BAR NONE for for piano, two screws and an eraser by pianist Guy Livingston.
January 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Wonderful video of my piece, BAR NONE for for piano, two screws and an eraser by pianist Guy Livingston.
Gratefully for this wonderful performance of ALWAYS PARISA for cello and string orchestra. Thank you Sara Male and Allegro Orchestra Lancaster. Please take a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=698k...
Always Parisa by Tina Davidson
YouTube video by Tina Davidson
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January 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gratefully for this wonderful performance of ALWAYS PARISA for cello and string orchestra. Thank you Sara Male and Allegro Orchestra Lancaster. Please take a listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=698k...
Happy to introduce myself to Blue Sky! I am a composer, and the author of a recent memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer. www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...
January 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Happy to introduce myself to Blue Sky! I am a composer, and the author of a recent memoir, Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer. www.amazon.com/Let-Your-Hea...