A composer of chamber and orchestral music, I live in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.  I am an Associate Professor of Music and co-ordinator of composition at the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music in Hobart. 

River Mountain Sky - orchestral music by Maria Grenfell
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/shop/river-mountain-sky/104313990

https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/music/maria-grenfell

Poor, but faithful till I die.

Brazos Starr has composed for ensembles ranging from solo and chamber to band and choir, including a solo tenor multimedia work Blue-Butterfly Day. His solo cello work, They Came as the Collage, was recorded by Voices of Change in 2020. Starr is currently studying composition at Stephen F. Austin State University under Dr. Stephen Lias. Starr's former instructors include Robert J Coe (SFASU) and Dr. Chad Robinson (private lessons). Starr has also worked for Dr. Robinson's non-profit Texas New Music Ensemble. With an A.A. in Vocal Performance, Starr enjoys performing and for many years had been singing in the Stone Fort Chorale. In recent years his voice professor Dr Moody has a community choir that he has been considering rejoining in 2025.

Starr has since graduated from SFA and has been composing a suite on his own while also beginning to practice multiple piano pieces to continue pushing with music in his life. A masters program in composition is still his goal but currently the projects seem to be on hold. 

He has been moving into solo piano work and writing for the fun of it. Some say that composition isn’t cool anymore, that it is stuck in the past but he has argued that is a lie, it is worth it if you love it. The orchestral field still dominates not only film but also the gaming world. 

Regardless of how the future pans out, if you’re breathing, you should be spending time on what you love and most importantly, who you love.

Brazos has been known by his nickname for a long time “Atlas” although in recent years this name has fallen by the wayside it is still a prominent figure in his life. The website that hosts his music still features the name in the title.

After having an extensive vocal rep that includes many German, Italian, a few French and English rep in both classical and jazz styles, the hardest pieces to perform is most certainly “Gretchenn Am Spinnrade” by the wonderful Franz Schubert. 

The music of Takashi Yoshimatsu has been a huge inspiring factor in his life, the tender toys album volumes 1-3 has exceptionally stood out as a part of his drive post university life. To this day he still listens to and has been practicing Yoshimatsu’s Pleiades dances albums.

None of this was ever to be possible without Gods influence. 

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Even now, I have appreciated & continued to support the genuine one person that over the last ten years has put in more effort carrying me through life than anyone else ever has & shall ever do again. I just pray they understand & see my commitment to them.

Dugo is the experiment on how to combine the sound of rock guitar influenced by modern Spanish flamenco that he think is the culmination of guitar music with modern electronic sound in an organic form, and it represents the soundscape of his inner image and the landscape he has seen.

He has played the guitar in a prog rock band called Happy Family in the late 90s, and at the same time played the role of a producer of the band. He worked on two albums, which were released by Cuneiform Records in the US.
After the band broke up, he managed to build a bedroom studio and began to learn to make music using computers and digital audio. He didn’t meet almost anyone while he was focusing on that for a year. While doing so, he happened to get an offer to make a remix for a J-Pop group called PAMELAH. It was his first job as a professional music creator. Since then, he has worked on a number of productions for major artists in Japanese music industry as a remixer, arranger, and sometimes a producer.

Working as a professional musician didn’t mean he had to give up on being active as an artist. He started his solo project around this time and named the project Dugo, which means blood or family in the Tagalog language.
One day in 2005, one of his friends invited him to some secret club party in Tokyo as a guest. He happened to get an opportunity to talk with Ian Pooley, who was also invited to the party as a DJ from Germany, and he gave him a demo CD-R. Two months later, he got an offer from Pooled Music, which was a label run by Ian Pooley, to release Dugo's album. He gladly accepted the offer, but even though he completed 10 songs for the album, the distribution company that was the biggest in the EU went bankrupt at the last minute.
Consequently, the album release was abandoned, because Pooled Music was working with that distribution company, and it was very difficult to make a new contract with another distribution company for a new unknown artist in such a confused situation in the music industry in Europe. Dugo had to give up on releasing the album.

Such an unlucky event made him feel discouraged, but then the track 'Dublin' was unexpectedly picked up to be used for CSI: Miami Season 3 in 2006, thanks to Freibank Music Publishing from Germany. As a result, he became involved in music production for the media. Among them, the opportunities to compose video game music increased, and he gradually became known as a video game composer.

Although he was successfully working as a video game composer, the tsunami that hit Japan and the disaster at the nuclear power plant in 2011 changed his policy. Since then, he has devoted his resources to working as an artist again. He started Happy Family again after 1998, then released the third album in 2014.

After the second hibernation of Happy Family, he finally released Dugo’s first album 'Lingua Franca' through Brave Wave Productions in 2017, where he collaborated with Italian classical musicians and a Canadian violinist.
Though it tended to be slow, he had been proceeding the production for Dugo, while working as a video game composer at the same time. However, after being infected with COVID-19 in April and surviving, He seriously has restarted Dugo, becoming to focus on what matters most in his remaining life.

Finally, the latest EP ‘Recluse’ was released on October 9, 2020. The tracks in this EP were written partially when he was suffering from COVID-19. Now that many musicians are trying to change their activity to be able to adapt to the situation of post-COVID-19, his resumption of the work as Dugo, an independent artist, can be a symbolic expression of that.

Game designer/writer/composer at Paralune LLC

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