Field-Of-Study: Music Composition

From Columbia University’s memorial to George Edwards: George Edwards, Edward MacDowell Emeritus Professor of Music,  passed away on October 23, 2011. Prof. Edwards had a long and distinguished career at Columbia, in addition to his significant public career as a composer and critic. George Edwards grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He attended Oberlin College, where

Tamar Diesendruck’s favored compositional medium is virtuosic chamber music, although she has also composed solo, orchestral, choral, wind ensemble and vocal works. Her music is often characterized as having a very wide range of expression and includes experimental pieces like 8 ——>∞ for eight cellos (eight tends toward infinity), and unusually slow, stark music like