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Harvard University Department of Music Program in Composition Harvard offers composition training, resources and performance opportunities at both the undergraduate (AB) and graduate (PhD) level. The program is designed to give students the time to develop as composers by offering general musical guidance as well as specific individual criticism of their works. Students achieve clarity of expression through developing their command of compositional technique. In addition, acquaintance with the literature of the past and present through analysis and performance is considered indispensable, as is fluency in foreign languages. Most courses are seminars and deal with specific topics or student works.
Current composition faculty are Julian Anderson, Bernard Rands, Joshua Fineberg, Elliott Gyger and Hans Tutschku. In addition to coursework and seminars throughout the campus, composers meet informally in a colloquium series to discuss works in progress.
Resources available to composers include the Harvard University Library system (including the Loeb Music Library), and the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC).
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The department also supports the Harvard Group for New Music, who produce and promote several concerts a year premiering new works by HGNM student composers. Past residencies have featured Speculum Musicae, The New Millenium Ensemble, The California E.A.R. Unit, The Gregg Smith Singers, and soloist Frances Marie Uitti (pictured with graduate composition students).
Visit the Harvard University Department of Music website at www.music.fas.harvard.edu. |
| Upcoming Activities at Harvard University:
March 4, 2005 at 8 PM
Fromm Players at Harvard: Multiple Voices (Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor)
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall - Free
Steve Reich, It's Gonna Rain;
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Leopardi fragments;
Kaija Saariaho, Grammaire des reves;
Elliott Carter, Syringa.
Tony Arnold, soprano; Julia Bentley, alto; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano; Andre Solomon-Glover, bass; Oren Fader, guitar
March 5, 2005 at 8 PM
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall - Free
Jacob Druckman, Bo; Luciano Berio, A-Ronne; Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gesang der Junglinge; Sir Harrison Birtwistle,
Meridian
Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano
March 18 at 8 PM
Blodgett Chamber Music Series: the Ying Quartet
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall - Free
Mendelssohn, Quartet in E flat Major, op. 44, no. 3; Eliyahu Shoot, Memoriam; Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
April 15 at 8 PM
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall - Free
LifeMusic Commissions by Pierre Jalbert and John Duffy; Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 |
