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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.
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| Featured Composition
Department - Northeastern University |
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The Northeastern University Music Department approaches the study of music from a global, multicultural, and multifaceted perspective. It is the fourth largest undergraduate major at Northeastern University with almost 450 students. The Music Department is chaired by Professor Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer and music technologist, whose composition Devolution, a Concerto for DJ and Symphony Orchestra featuring DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, has garnered national attention (www.deritis.com/devolution). The Music Department offers three concentrations in the context of a broad liberal arts program.
The Music History and Analysis concentration leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree, and is directed by Professor Judith Tick, recently inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Dennis Miller, composer and Associate Editor of Electronic Musician magazine, directs the Music Technology concentration, a music composition program where students learn to compose music using the newest electronic music technology, both hardware and software. Students learn techniques such as MIDI sequencing, digital and analog recording, sound design, audio for video, and the latest methods for delivering music over the Internet. Students take private lessons in music composition, taught by composers on the Northeastern faculty and throughout the Boston area, each semester they are enrolled. Lessons focus on the study of composition for both acoustic and electric instruments. Presently there are 75 students taking private lessons in music composition at Northeastern. This concentration includes a thorough background in the fundamentals of music theory and history, and leads to a Bachelor of Science degree.
The Music Industry concentration is the first such undergraduate program in Boston, and commands the largest yield rate of any program at Northeastern
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University. Directed by Professor Leon Janikian, former owner and operator of Sound Techniques Recording Studios, this concentration is designed for students with an interest in fields such as artist management, the music products industry, the record industry, art administration, contracting and legal issues, the recording process, and studio techniques. Developed in collaboration with Northeastern's College of Business Administration, the music industry concentration leads to a Bachelor of Science degree.
To learn more about the Northeastern University Department, please visit www.music.neu.edu , or call 617-373-2440. |
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Northeastern University Announcement:
Composer Ronald Bruce Smith, PhD. Joins Northeastern University Music Department.
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Ronald Bruce Smith studied composition at the University of Toronto, McGill University and the University of California at Berkeley from which he received the Ph.D. in music. He has also studied at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau and at IRCAM in Paris, France, and has held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts. His principal composition teachers include Tristan Murail, Bruce Mather, Richard Felciano and Talivaldis Kenins. He has also studied computer music and synthesis with David Wessel. In 1996-97 he was a visiting composer at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and since 1998 he has been a composer-in-residence at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California at Berkeley. Smith has taught at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the University of California at Berkeley and at Stanford University.
Smith has received many awards and commissions for his work including commissions funded by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and Gibson Guitars. Recent performers of his works include the Aitken/Tureski Duo, the Arraymusic Ensemble, California E.A.R. Unit, Cikada, Continuum Ensemble, Del Sol String Quartet, Earplay, Pierrot Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Speculum Musicae, Vancouver New Music Ensemble, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and at festivals in Europe, the Americas and Australia.
His music has been recorded to CD by Continuum, Arraymusic, the Del Sol String Quartet and the Evergreen Club Gamelan. |
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| Archived
Composition Departments |
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March 2005 - Harvard
November 2004 - Longy
September 2004 - Tufts
Summer 2004 - Berklee |
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