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Deniz Hughes
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Music is art. Making it your living is strategy. I teach both.
Composer Consultant | Music Business Decoder | Yale D.M.A.
Award-winning clients, featured everywhere.
If you’re feeling lost, DM me. I’ll get you un-lost!
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If you are a film composer, it will be worth your while to read this -

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The Fighting Film Composer
Do you know what it’s like fighting a film composer?
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October 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Please take a read of my newest Substack - it's for film composers only 🎶

Thank you for your ongoing support!

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It’s in the Togetherness Where There is Power
From the outside, film composing appears to be a dazzling career to pursue, and in many ways it is.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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May the Reeds Never Stop Whispering
Many folks don’t know it, but in Greek mythology King Midas was cursed not only with the golden touch, but also with a far less glamorous affliction: donkey’s ears.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Do You Really Want to Have Dinner with Beethoven?
If you could, would you truly want to sit down to dinner with Beethoven?
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September 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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A Film Composer Is Not a Plumber
Imagine walking into an art gallery and asking a painter to price their work by the square inch, or telling a novelist their fee should depend solely on word count.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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NEGOTIATION FOR COMPOSERS
THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 21st

9:00 am - 10:30 am in Mexico
11:00 am - 12:30 pm in New York
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm in Norway
11:00 pm - 12:30 am in Taiwan

One 90-minute meeting with email follow up.
Price for this workshop --> $36

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Negotiation for Composers — Deniz Hughes
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June 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Lily #caturday
June 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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#BlueSkyMonday
June 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The view from #underneath a huge chandelier - this was in Istanbul quite a few years ago @blueskyartshow.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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NEGOTIATION FOR COMPOSERS: Some composers have expressed interested in this workshop - this is a 90-minute meeting with email follow-up. The price is $36. Exact times to be determined after signing up - details at the link below, including scholarship info!

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Negotiation for Composers — Deniz Hughes
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May 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #dream #cats
April 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Charlie Mackesy on fostering creative lives.

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Abandon The Idea Of Being Good And Just Try | Charlie Mackesy | TEDxFrensham
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January 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Diversity is strength, and it is joy. #IDIC IYKYK
Bubble chart showing the ethnic makeup of Queens, NYC in 2021z
November 24, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Mathematicians have described a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature: shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — featuring in onions, molluscs and more.

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Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature
‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more.
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November 22, 2024 at 10:46 PM