Graduate Studies in Composition 

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Faculty

Zosha Di Castri
Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music

Joseph Dubiel
Professor of Music

Bradford Garton
Professor of Music

Georg Friedrich Haas
MacDowell Professor of Music 

Alfred W. Lerdahl
Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition
Director, Fritz Reiner Center

George E. Lewis
Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music
Chair of the Composition Area Committee, 2018-2019

Emeritus Composition Faculty

Tristan Murail

GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Katherine Balch
• Ashkan Behzadi
• David Bird
• Taylor Brook
• Jessie Cox
• Stylianos Dimou
• William Dougherty
• Louis Goldford
• Vicente Hansen
• Martin Hiendl
• Hannah Kendall
• Yair Klartag
• Uri Kochavi
• Mary Kouyoumdjian
• Shih-Wei Lo
• Sky Macklay
• Emily Praetorius
• Diana M Rodriguez
• John Rot
• Roberto Toscano
• Onur Yildirim
• Samuel Yulsman

Programs Offered

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

Resources

• Computer Music Center
• Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music