The Composition program equips students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to be creative while engaging with the specific context of our time.
Programs of study for composition majors are designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills required for the fullest development of their individual creative gifts.
Specialized courses for undergraduate students include:
Specialized courses for graduate students include:
In addition to studying with MSM’s expert faculty, composition students are given opportunities for response to present their work in master classes by world-renowned guest composers and performers.
Prescreening & Audition Procedures
Composition Department Handbook
Plan of Study: Composition MSM Academic Catalog
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Reiko Fueting: Department Chair; Private Instruction; Composition Course Faculty David Adamcyk: Private Instruction; Composition Course Faculty Ashkan Behzadi: Private Instruction: Composition Course Faculty Susan Botti: Private Instruction; Composition Course Faculty Valerie Colman: Private Instruction Nirmali Fenn: Private Instruction; Composition Course Faculty J. Mark Stambaugh: Private Instruction
Leah Asher: Composition Course Faculty: Experimental Indeterminate Music Yu-Chun Chien: Composition Course Faculty: Senior Orchestration Hayes Biggs: Composition Course Faculty: Undergraduate Form and Analysis Michael Harrison: Composition Course Faculty: Acoustics and Tuning Systems Paolo Marchettini: Composition Course Faculty: Score Reading David McDonald: Composition Course Faculty: Instrumentation/ Orchestration
Michael Abene David Amram Angelo Badalamenti Christopher Cerrone Anna Clyne Michael Colgrass John Corigliano Sebastian Currier Michael Daugherty Elliot Goldenthal Ted Hearne Larry Hochman Rupert Holmes Fredrick Kaufman Aaron Jay Kernis Alex Mincek John Musto Jack Perla Tobias Picker Don Sebesky Joseph Trapanese Jie Wang
“The Composition Department and greater new music community at MSM has allowed me to flourish as an artist. I have discovered things about my compositional voice that I would have never thought possible, had it not been for my colleagues and professors at this school.” Elizabeth Gartman, MM ’21
“The Composition Department and greater new music community at MSM has allowed me to flourish as an artist. I have discovered things about my compositional voice that I would have never thought possible, had it not been for my colleagues and professors at this school.”
Elizabeth Gartman, MM ’21
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