Interviews & Publications

INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, etc.

S3E1: Dr. Olivia Kieffer | Playing the Changes – Tutti Talks podcast (November 2025)
Fresh Ink: Music for Silent Film (August 2024)
Pete’s Percussion Podcast: Part 1 and Part 2 (February 2024)
Playfully avant-garde smol ensemble and high-energy Moloq close 2023 SoundNOW Festival – EarRelevant (April 2023)
A Doctorate in Music: Interview with Olivia Kieffer  – sound pudding (March 2023)
Impressions from the 2022 SoundNOW Festival – EarRelevant (April 2022)
The Blender on KNCE (no. 169) – Olivia Kieffer Interview with Sid Barrett (March 2022)
New Theme Song, California Tour, and Music Talk with Olivia Kieffer & Nicolas Deuson – Just Beautiful Experiences podcast (June 2020)
An EarRelevant Interlude, #4: Nobility of Homophones II – EarRelevant (June 2020)
SEASON TEN, EPISODE TWO – COMPOSER, OLIVIA KIEFFER – 1track podcast (Feb. 2020)
Society for New Music presents ‘Minimalism & the Sound of Our Times’ – syracuse.com (Jan. 2020)
A Wide Presentation of Extraordinary Chamber Works – The Musical Times Magazine (October 2019)
Composer Olivia Kieffer Interview – Odd Quartet (July 2019)
3 QUESTIONS FOR 4 MUSICIANS | Life as a Musician in the 21st Century | “3/4 Sharp” Music Podcast (Jan. 2019)
OLIVIA KIEFFER: COMPOSER, PERCUSSIONIST, EDUCATOR Interview – Moving Classics TV
WIDE CIRCLES EPISODE 2: OLIVIA KIEFFER (July 2018)
Percussionist Olivia Kieffer bids farewell to Atlanta with concert at Eyedrum – ArtsATL (May 2017)
OLIVIA KIEFFER Composer Profiles – A/B Duo Blog (January 2015)
“A Little More Fearless” – Classical Musicians Think Like Rock Musicians – City Cafe, WABE Atlanta (July 2014)
Olivia Kieffer of Clibber Jones and Chix with Stix – TomTom Magazine (2014)
Review: Clibber Jones Ensemble, Klimchak finally see the light in rain-delayed show at Kavarna – ArtsATL (July 2013)

 

Published Articles, Reviews, and Other Writings

2024 PAS Composition Contest Winners, reviews of Grand Prize and Second Prize. – Percussive Notes, Volume 63, No. 3 (June 2025)
Percussion is for Every Body: Neurodivergent Percussionists. PASIC panel moderated by Olivia Kieffer – Percussive Notes, Volume 62, No. 1 (February 2024)
Composing the Double Concerto for Toy Pianos and Chamber Orchestra and the Creation of the Toy Piano Chamber Music Database – ProQuest Dissertation (May 2023)
Bells Beneath the Moon and Stars: A Night Sky Recital – EarRelevant (October 2022)
CD Review: Philadelphia Percussion + Piano Project sparks joyful exuberance with music of Marc Mellits –  EarRelevant (September 2021)
CD Review: “A Quiet Madness” elicits delightful yet elusive cohesiveness – EarRelevant (February 2021)
CD Review: Sandbox Percussion shows its unique voice in “And That One Too” – EarRelevant (March 2020)
Composer’s Notebook: The Kieffer Chronicles – EarRelevant – links to my quartet of articles for NewMusicBox (August 2019)
CD Review: Nick Phillips “Shift” – Journal for the International Alliance for Women in Music (Volume 25 No. 2, 2019)
CD Review: “American Rapture” showcases three generations of American composers – EarRelevant (July 2019)
CD review: Third Coast Percussion’s “Perpetulum” showcases percussionists with extraordinary abilities (May 2019)
Playing the Changes – Journal for the International Alliance for Women in Music (Volume 24, No, 1, 2018)
Composer/Percussionist Olivia Kieffer Talks About Arranging and Performing – Music, Polyphony, and Polyrhythm (Jan. 2016)