Training
•Develop professional composition craft through intensive work in 20th- and 21st-century art music, supported by career-management and concert-production skills.
•Build foundational technique for graduate-level study while working with professionally active composition faculty and visiting creators.
Performance & Productions
•Receive readings from the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Conservatory Choir, alongside department showings and recitals.
•Shenandoah New Music adds guest-artist readings and masterclasses, the EDGE Ensemble, the Pulitzer Prize Composer Festival, the New Music Collective and the William Averitt Prize for Excellence in Composition.
