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Faculty

Marcos Balter
Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition
Director of Undergraduate Composition, Spring '23

Seth Cluett
Lecturer in Music
Director of Computer Music Center (CMC)

Zosha Di Castri
Francis Goelet Associate Professor of Music
Director of Undergraduate Composition, Fall '22

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, 2023–24

Emeritus Composition Faculty

Tristan Murail

Alfred W. Lerdahl
Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition

Current GRADUATE STUDENTS

• Camila Agosto
• Artun Çekem
• Yanqi Chen
• Jessie Cox
• Danielle Dobkin
• Fjola Evans
• Nina Fukuoka
• Louis Goldford
• Saad Haddad
• Hannah Kendall
• Uri Kochavi
• Joshua Alvarez Mastel
• Finola Merivale
• Emily Praetorius
• Alyssa Regent
• Diana M Rodriguez
• Corie Rose Soumah
• Anna-Louise Walton
• Kitty Xiao
• Bethany Younge

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