3 Ways You Avoid doing the Real Work

The thing that's hiding behind burnout - that no one talks about

What NOT to say in a Composition Interview (Masters, PhD, DMA, Undergrad)

How to Format Your Parts

How to Format Your Large Ensemble Score

Why Your Music Never Feels Good Enough

Here are the secrets that I wish I knew - How to finish your dissertation

How to Easily Craft Your Music Composition Dissertation Document

How Write Your Music Composition Dissertation Score (and not burn yourself out)

How to Start Your Music Composition Dissertation (and Actually Finish It) Part 1

Don’t Waste These 3 Months: The Composer Summer Checklist

5 Hacks to Keep You from Wasting Time - Advice for Young Composers

Forest Music - David Vess {Score Video} || for Woodwind Quintet (2024)

How to be a Great Teaching Assistant (TA) in Music - Advice for Young Composers

Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Annotated Score/Quick Study Guide: Mvt. 2 The Planets by Gustav Holst

What Grad School for Composition is ACTUALLY about

How to Actually Apply for Composition Undergrad

Mars, Bringer of War - Annotated Score /Quick Study Guide: Mvt. 1 from The Planets by Gustav Holst

New to Classical? Study these 5 Scores - Advice for Young Composers

The Secret to Starting Your Composition Career the Right Way this Summer- Advice for Early Composers

How Britten makes Peter Grimes an Outcast: An Analysis of the Prologue - by David Vess

Unlocking Gesualdo: Moro Lasso through the Lens of Neo-Riemannian Theory - Analysis by David Vess

Cello vs. Orchestra: Agency in the Lutosławski Cello Concerto - An Analysis by David Vess

Roan Mountain Air - David Vess {Score} || for reed quintet (2023) - Reading Session at UM

Talosian Soliloquy - David Vess {Score Video} || for solo tuba (2023)

In My Cloud - David Vess {Score Video} || for orchestra (2023) Frost Repertory Orchestra

The Biggest Roadblock for Composers Today - Advice for Young Composers

How to Have a Successful World Premiere - Advice for Young Composers

How to have a Successful Rehearsal of Your Music - Advice for Young Composers

How to Make Your Parts Look Professional - Advice for Young Composers

Livewire: Concerto for Bass Clarinet - David Vess {Score Video} || and chamber orchestra (2019)

Soaring Over the White Mountains -David Vess {Score Video} || for orchestra (2022) Brockton Symphony

gleaming, glowing, spheres and spectres - David Vess {Score Video} || for orchestra (2015)

How to Make Your Scores Look Professional - Advice for Young Composers

What if you have Writer's Block? - Advice for Young Composers

How to Understand Your Compositional Process - Advice for Young Composers

Why Listening to New Things is Hard and Why You Should Do it Anyway - Advice for Young Composers

Chroma the Great - David Vess {Score Video} || for Orchestra (2014)

How to Start Studying Scores - Advice for Young Composers

Suite from 'Horizon' - David Vess {Score Video} || Film Score for Chamber Orchestra (2012)

anima - David Vess {Score Video} || for sinfonietta (2016) - Reading Session at Bard Composers Fest.

3 Best Ideas for Young Composers that I wish I knew when starting

Rift - David Vess {Score Video} || for sinfonietta (2015)

To Dream Again - David Vess {Score Video} || for SATB (2023)

Improvisation Featuring Artist Kerry Brock and David Vess on Piano || Live from Bridgewater State U.

Improvisation featuring Sarah Fernandes, Allison Russell, Patrick Lynch, and David Vess Live at BSU

Brass Quintet No. 2 'Helvetica' || (2017) David Vess Composition Recital 11/19/21 Bridgewater State

Brass Quintet No. 3 'Dusk' || (2020) David Vess Composition Recital 11/19/21 at Bridgewater State U.

2nd Person Prelude || for solo piano (2021) - David Vess Composition Recital World Premiere at BSU