Seattle Composers Alliance
Expert Speaker Series 2025
Amy Denio – Tips for Survival as an Independent Musician
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 7:30pm doors 8:00pm event
The LAB at Seattle Drum School
1010 S. Bailey Street, Seattle WA 98108
The SCA welcomes composer and producer, Amy Denio, to share her insights on how to survive and grow as an independent musician. Topics include founding a publishing company and record label and the mechanics of music distribution. She will also describe her experiences with networking, grant writing, collaborating as a way to develop one’s expression, producing records, and tips for survival as a self-employed musician. And in perfect mercurial fashion, she will probably throw in a few stories and advice she’s gleaned from her varied and (often unorthodox) international tours.
Known as Seattle’s ‘avant goddess’, Denio decided never to specialize, rather she focused on broadening her knowledge about the ‘industry’ of creating music. This included teaching herself to play a variety of instruments, developing skills as an audio engineer and record producer, and founding her own publishing company and record label. She has played concerts and taught musical workshops solo and in collaboration with international artists in festivals, clubs, squats, prisons, churches, sanctuaries, subways, and inside abandoned buildings on 6 continents. She is a musician’s musician.
Denio is also an award-winning chamber composer, publishing over 600 pieces ranging from pop songs to soundtrack music for dance, TV, film and theater – as a solo artist, for sax quartet, Austrian chamber octet, the Berkeley Symphony and her own home-spun 22-piece chamber ensemble Orkestar Istina. She has created LLCs for her music projects and written dozens of successful grants for all kinds of creative projects.
Denio’s newest chamber work, the silent film soundtrack Varieté was released in March 2025 by Viennese label Klanggalerie.
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