Every musician is a composer. Students as young as eight can start learning to hear and create the elements of music.
Young composers have many opportunities to develop and expand their skills, including Today’s Youth Perform Today’s Music festival, playing their own pieces and those of friends. This video gives a brief overview of the range of Prep activities.
Jeremiah Klarman, here being congratulated after a performance by Steven Karidoyanes and the Youth Symphony, went on from his Prep studies to be a Composition major in the NEC College program...
...where as an NEC senior he recently premiered his own composition "Heavenly Union," accompanying soprano Moira Loh from the keyboard.
Composition students have the chance to learn from leading composers like Sir Peter Maxwell Davies...
...and William Bolcom, shown here giving feedback to a Prep composer/violinist during a Today's Youth Perform Today's Music workshop.
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