Training & Performance
•Rigorous training in composition, harmony, counterpoint, analysis, conducting, orchestration, and digital audio
•Weekly private composition lessons plus a weekly composition seminar with guest composers
•Strong ratio of performers to composers — frequent opportunities to have your works performed and professionally recorded
•New work performed on the Lamont Composer's Series Concert each quarter after the first quarter
•State-of-the-art recording studio integrated with every performance venue
•Department chaired by Rome Prize winner Sean Friar, with commissions from the Los Angeles and Berlin Philharmonics
Location
•Active Denver-area music scene with paid performance and teaching opportunities