About a month ago, I got an e-mail from the founder of the Young Women Composers Camp that I participated in July. It was written that a local radio called WRTI in Pennsylvania wanted to make an interview with the composers who participated in the camp. Because we were 50 composers there, I thought it wasn't a big deal and I didn't want to spend my time for it.
However, after finishing reading the e-mail, I realized that the e-mail was sent only to 7 people. At that moment, I started to think that it could actually be something special and maybe I have been selected among those 50 composers. So I accepted the offer 😃
But I was a little bit nervous to be honest, because I was the only foreigner among those 7 composers, and there was a risk of me not understanding the question... Since it was going to be recorded, I was having nightmares about all those possible stressful situations till the interview day😄
Then the actual interview day came and it ended up being very good, about which I'm very happy 😃 It was lovely. The interviewer asked me some questions about my composition I wrote for the camp and I actually enjoyed talking ✌️Also, she said that our compositions were selected by the classical music director of the radio and that was a very special moment for me.
And two days ago, my piece aired on the WRTI Classical Radio along with a small part from the interview. That was extremely exciting to wait for hearing my composition on the radio 🎉 I've never been featured on a radio before so that was unforgettable. Also, the fact that it was not a local Turkish radio but rather a radio at somewhere in America was very cool haha😄
