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Schools - Composition Departments

Boston’s thriving intellectual and educational community is home to numerous first-rate conservatories and college music departments. Many of our members attend, are alumni of, or currently teach at these internationally renowned institutions. Since the educational process can be a defining part of a composer’s development, our website highlights the area's composition departments on a rotating basis.

Featured Composition Department - Longy School of Music
The Composition Department at the Longy School of Music draws upon the strength of its setting in a performance-oriented conservatory. With new music activity spread throughout the Preparatory, Conservatory, and Continuing Studies divisions, and a size that allows interaction among those populations, Longy is an invigorating environment for new music. A lively composition seminar, plentiful performance opportunities, and lessons complement a curriculum emphasizing solid training in musicianship. Composition faculty includes Department Chair John Morrison, Howard Frazin and Paul Brust, and is augmented by a range of other active composers who also perform. Of particular interest to composers is the Modern American Music department, which brings both the study of improvisation and a concert series featuring a jazz-new music fusion to the Longy experience. The composition department produces four concerts of student works yearly, three concerts by its resident new music ensemble, Longitude, regular concerts from its computer music studio, and yearly performances of student works by the Longy Chamber Orchestra.		Founded in 1915, the Longy School of Music is a conservatory and community music school located outside of Harvard Square in Cambridge. The School boasts an outstanding faculty of approximately 150 teachers, and 1300 students study in Longy's three core programs: the Conservatory (for students pursuing diplomas and degrees), Continuing Studies (for non-degree and avocation adult students), and Preparatory Studies (for children from twelve-months to eighteen-years olds). For more information, visit Longy on the web at www.longy.edu or call 617-876-0956 x500.
Upcoming Activities at Longy School of Music: Longitude Longy's resident new music ensemble performs chamber works from the 20th and 21st centuries. Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Tuesday, March 1, 2005 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Listening In An evening of music by Longy faculty composers, performed by soprano Maria Jette. Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall New Music by Longy Composers Chamber music by Longy student composers performed by Conservatory students. Tuesday, November 2, 2004 8PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Tuesday, December 7, 2004 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Tuesday, April 5, 2005 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Tuesday, May 3, 2005 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Electronic Music Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8 PM Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall Computer Music A set of new student pieces from the computer music studio at Longy. Tuesday, December 21, 2004 8 PM Recital Room N1

Archived Composition Departments
September 2004 - Tufts Summer 2004 - Berklee