Field-Of-Study: Music Composition

Alex Mincek

Alex Mincek is a New York-based composer and performer. He studied composition with Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl at Columbia University (DMA) and with Nils Vigeland at the Manhattan School of Music (MA).  Mincek’s music has been programmed at many prestigious venues and international festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Miller Theatre, the Strasbourg Musica Festival, Festival

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Keeril Makan

Recipient of the Luciano Berio Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Keeril Makan has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, the Gerbode Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Aaron Copland House, the Utah Arts Festival, and ASCAP. Described by The New Yorker as

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Huck Hodge

Huck Hodge writes music that explores the embodied poetics of organized sound, perceptual illusion and the threshold between design and intuition. His output is varied and comprises a wide range of symphonic, chamber, and multimedia works. Hodge is the winner of the Rome Prize, the Gaudeamus Prize, The Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy

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Daron Aric Hagen

Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee in 1961 and has been a New Yorker since 1984. A full-time composer of opera and concert music, he divides his time between family and composing. One of America’s most versatile, prolific, and respected opera composers, all eight of his major operas are currently in production or revival somewhere

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Vivian Fung

Vivian Fung was born in Edmonton, Canada, in 1975 and received her doctorate from The Juilliard School.  Fung has developed a unique compositional voice, often merging Western forms with non-Western influences such as Indonesian gamelan and folk songs from minority regions of China.  She has received commissions from Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Shanghai Quartet,

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Fang Man

Hailed as “inventive and breathtaking” by New York Times critic Steven Smith, Fang Man is a Chinese-born composer who lives in the United States. She has obtained a doctorate in music composition from Cornell University, where she studied with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra. She also holds a computer music certificate from IRCAM-Paris. Fang Man’s

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Tom Cipullo

Composer Tom Cipullo’s works have been heard at major concert halls on four continents, from San Francisco to Tel Aviv, from Stockholm to LaPaz.  He has received commissions from the Mirror Visions Ensemble, SongFest at Pepperdine, the Joy in Singing, Sequitur, Cantori New York, tenor Paul Sperry, mezzo-soprano Mary Ann Hart, the Five Boroughs Music

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Randy Weston

Randy Weston is an internationally renowned pianist, composer, bandleader, and cultural ambassador, whose compositions encompass the vast rhythmic heritage of Africa. Still a true innovator and visionary after six decades of active work, Randy Weston continues to inform and inspire. Randy Weston was born April 6, 1926, and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the son

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Louis Karchin

Described by The New Yorker as a composer of “fearless eloquence,” Louis Karchin has been honored with performances of his music throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. His oeuvre is comprised of over sixty works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, soloists, numerous songs or song cycles for voice and piano or voice and

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Amy Beth Kirsten

Amy Beth Kirsten (born 8/21/1972 in Belleville, Illinois) is honored to have received a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and Levy Supplemental Stipend for music composition. She was recently a finalist for the Rome Prize, received a Rockefeller Foundation Artist Fellowship, and was named a 2011 Artist Fellow from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. Summer

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Fred Ho

Fred Ho is a Chinese American matriarchal revolutionary socialist, aspiring Luddite, and composer of Afro Asian manga opera and other grand works. He has never had a university or any institutional job his entire professional life, and runs his own for-profit enterprise, Big Red Media, Inc. He has won five Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, three New

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Philippe Bodin

Described by LA Weekly as “an original composer with something important to say," Philippe Bodin aims at writing music which, inspired by poetry, mathematics, language games, Renaissance techniques and Bulgarian or African rhythms, transcends geographic or stylistic boundaries. His works have been commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Eroica trio, the Mannes trio,

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Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin was born in 1957 in Israel and studied composition at the Tel Aviv Rubin Academy of Music from 1976 until 1982. Fellowships and studies followed in Berlin (DAAD scholarship 83- 85), the USA (University of California, where she received her Ph.D., 1987-93), Japan (1993-95 Asahi Shimbun Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts

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Anna Weesner

Anna Weesner’s music has been described as “animated and full of surprising turns” (New York Times, Oct. 10, 2003), as “a haunting conspiracy” (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 2001) and cited as demonstrating “an ability to make complex textures out of simple devices” (San Francisco Classical Voice, March 27, 2001). John Harbison has written that “none

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Wadada Leo Smith

Wadada Leo Smith, trumpeter, composer, improviser, and educator, has been active in creative contemporary music for over forty years. His compositions and improvisations use traditional, systemic, and symbolic notations, as well as his Ankhrasmation language that employs rhythm-units, sound-units, improvisation-units, and symbolic-units. An important part of his research is his Ankhrasmation language, and a large

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