Nuance Music Productions specializes in providing original music for a variety of music needs, from film/TV, radio and multi-media to corporate videos and jingles. Our award-winning music can be found in such differing places as nature videos and historical documentaries to multi-media history exhibits and modern dance scores for the stage. Our work is particularly distinctive in its attention to nuance, subtlety and is often identifiable in its balance between accessibility and deep musicality.
NMP and founding composer, Tamara Turner, have a broad experience in not just Western classical music and the modern music industry, but many years experience involved in music of other cultures such as that of Morocco, Mali, Turkey, Ghana, Ireland and Brazil. Turner, a part-time ethnomusicologist, studied privately and has recorded and documented traditional music in Morocco, Mali, Turkey, Ghana and Ireland. She continues to diligently explore many different musical systems and vocabularies, bringing exceptional color to the musical palette.
After over two decades of background and training from a wide variety of musical systems and approaches, collaborating with choreographers to filmmakers to individual musicians, NMP complements knowledge and expertise with creativity and innovation.
Brief Biography:
Tamara graduated in 2001 with a degree in music composition from the University of Oregon, with focuses in piano and ethnomusicology, and completed the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle, Washington in 2005. Tamara was born and raised in Fort Collins, Colorado where she started playing piano and composing at age 5. As a teenager onwards, Tamara studied formal composition and orchestration, along with several other instruments, from oboe and flute to classical harp and drums. As a junior in high school, Tamara published her first choral work and before her senior year, while studying at Interlochen Arts Academy, she wrote her first symphony, which was premiered by the Loveland Chamber Orchestra.
As well as deeply loving classical music, Turner is insatiably curious about other musical traditions and sounds from around the globe. She has spent the last 10 years conducting ethnomusicology research in places as varying as Ireland to Morocco, studying instruments ranging from the pennywhistle to the Malian calabash, Moroccan guimbri to Ghanaian kpanlogo drums. When at home, Tamara enjoys engaging in local multi-cultural groups such as playing in the samba band, Lions of Batucada.
Tamara recently returned to the Portland area, having spent the last year recording and studying traditional music in Morocco, Mali, and Turkey. She currently teaching part-time at Ethos Music Center as well as in her private studio.