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Have you ever wanted to learn more about your favorite composers? We did too, and hope you enjoy Choral Conversations, our composer interview blog.

Joseph Martin, composer, pianist and director of Sacred Publications at Shawnee Press, writes music that speaks to me.

He can turn simple folk tunes and hymns into breathtaking masterpieces. Joseph is a pianist by training, and still plays over 70 concerts a year. He generously took time from his busy schedule to speak with me this week. Here are the highlights of our interview (all answers are paraphrased).

What are you working on right now?

I have a Carnegie Hall debut coming up this weekend.

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I was commissioned to write a new choral work for young voices based on the writings of Mattie J.T.  Stepanek, a young man who had a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and wrote these books called Heartsongs that became bestsellers.

They are tremendous texts. I took some of his lyrics and combined them with my music and wove the