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Asher Komor’s career in music began at the age of five, when he started taking piano lessons. He joined the elementary school band, started to play the flute, and joined several music ensembles. He started taking music composition classes and writing his own pieces when he was in sixth grade.
“I’ve been writing music ever since,” said Komor.
Throughout his evolution as a composer, he has been supported by a team of individuals including his mother, Pat Komor. Asher credits her as his inspiration for becoming a flutist, due to her playing the instrument in high school. His flute teacher and Colorado Symphony member Cathy Peterson has been a support to him as well. Max Wolpert, who is Asher’s music composition teacher, has pushed his music writing “to the next level”, noted Pat Komor.
The online learning environments that were prevalent during the pandemic led to Asher’s mind being in need of “additional occupation.” A mutual friend connected the family with Wolpert, who was at the time a doctoral student, and Asher began taking lessons twice a month to understand the finer details of interpreting and writing music.
Asher’s inspirations in the world of classical music hail from different genres, though he noted that he primarily gravitates towards baroque music. Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Tchaikovsky contributed to the background knowledge which Komor uses as a framework to create his own musical masterpieces.
“For me, writing music is a form of self-expression,” said Komor. “It expresses emotions that are more complex than what you can say with words. Whatever is going on in my life, and whatever I feel, is input into the music and is expressed through that.”
Komor’s approach to music composition is based on listening to and watching the world around him, which inspires him to take what he has heard and translate it into music. This includes the movements and sounds of nature, other songs, and the people who surround him. He also sees it as a way to celebrate the diversity of humanity.
“Usually, I write the melody first. I’m a melody first composer,” said Komor. “On the flute, or the piano, I mess around and after that I input it into music writing software…to make a whole piece out of it.”
Major life events also serve as motivators for Komor creating a musical composition. That includes traveling from Steamboat to Denver every week to train with Peterson on the flute. Those trips morphed into a piece that translates the sights and scenes of the trip into music.
Komor has discovered that he writes the best when he is in solitude late at night. The beginning of the process is the easy part for Asher. When he experiences “writer’s block”, he steps away from the piece and organically develops a solution.
“I tend to write little bits at a time and not spend [many hours] writing,” he explained. “Whenever I next feel inspired, I write some more. Eventually, it all adds up.”
Wolpert also assists Komor with his creations, making suggestions on how to improve the overall quality of the piece or how to make it more playable for certain instruments.
Komor is also a dancer. That additional expression of art and movement actually served as a springboard for a growing recognition of him as a composer. His instructor, Artistic Director Emily Speed of AvidDance, reached out to him and asked him to write a piece for a dance show she was organizing. Komor accepted, and he ended up performing the piece in the show in New York City alongside two other professional musicians.
“It felt like a preview of what is to come, I hope, for me in life,” he said. “It was really cool to be able to play with and get feedback from other professional musicians. I enjoyed performing, which is why I do it.”
After the New York show, the dance company held another performance in Denver, and Komor was again invited to play. The second performance was just as informative as the first, as he worked with a new ensemble of musicians who provided more support and feedback for Komor.
Komor plays alongside Molly Aronson at the New York City AVID Dance show in NYC in June 2024.
Jeremy Kyle Gruner/Courtesy photo
With a professional music career already underway, Komor hopes to attend college and major in flute performance and continue to expand his skills as a composer. He hopes to build a career as a symphony performer as well.
“I want to keep bringing my music to as many people [as possible] and spread joy by using music to put myself out there and connect people,” closed Komor. “It has the magic of transcending all the barriers that people have put between themselves. It speaks more than words can.”
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