Training
•Bullet: Composition lessons rotate: in the first two years students rotate through four different members of the composition department (COMP 2301-2304), and in the junior and senior years they choose their instructors (COMP 4301-4304)
•Bullet: The Composition degree sheet requires Orchestration, Post-tonal Analysis or Musical Explorations: Bartók, Electronic Music for Composers, a Junior Thesis and a Senior Composition Recital, plus a year of a foreign language
•Bullet: Faculty include Michael Alec Rose (Professor of Composition), Chelsea Loew (Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory) and Michael Slayton (Professor of Music Theory and Composition; Area Chair: Composition and Theory)
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Student composers have numerous opportunities to hear their music performed each year, culminating in a full-length portrait recital during the senior year
