Graduate Studies in Composition 

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Faculty

Zosha Di Castri
Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music
Director of Undergraduate Composition, 2020–21

Seth Cluett
Lecturer in Music

Joseph Dubiel
Professor of Music

Bradford Garton
Professor of Music

Georg Friedrich Haas
MacDowell Professor of Music 

George Lewis
Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music
Composition Area Chair, 2020–21

Emeritus Composition Faculty

Tristan Murail

Alfred W. Lerdahl
Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition

Current GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Camila Agosto
• Katherine Balch
• Jessie Cox
• Danielle Dobkin
• William Dougherty
• Fjola Evans
• Nina Fukuoka
• Louis Goldford
• Saad Haddad
• Vicente Hansen
• Laure M. Hiendl
• Hannah Kendall
• Uri Kochavi
• Mary Kouyoumdjian
• Shih-Wei Lo
• Finola Merivale
• Emily Praetorius
• Diana M Rodriguez
• John Rot
• Roberto Toscano
• Anna-Louise Walton
• Onur Yildirim
• Bethany Younge
• Samuel Yulsman

Programs Offered

• DMA
• MFA in Sound Art, joint program with the School of the Arts through the Computer Music Center

Resources

• Computer Music Center
• MFA Sound Art Program
• Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music