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Composition
A highly diverse and individualized approach, combined with a thorough curriculum of technical and theoretical studies, makes NEC a dynamic and vital place to be a composer. You will explore and create new music while absorbing musical traditions from around the world, drawing inspiration from a rich array of music, history, and art.
Composition at NEC focuses on practice and performance, providing numerous opportunities for emerging composers to interact and collaborate with the world’s best young musicians. Master techniques and theory, exchange ideas with faculty and renowned guest artists, and discover your creative voice.
Michael Gandolfi
From the Department Chair
NEC’s Composition faculty emphasizes a highly diverse and individualized approach to music composition in combination with a thorough curriculum of technical and theoretical studies. Our goal is to give you the technical tools and formal clarity to fully realize your own compositional voice. You will receive intensive, individual, one-hour lessons with your studio instructor every week. The faculty is an active, widely performed, and internationally known group of composers who are diverse yet complementary in both musical background and compositional style. The composition department also has a visiting composer program in cooperation with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Faculty Member Tom Siders (BSO), Trumpet, Gives a Private Lesson
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Faculty Member Tom Siders (BSO), Trumpet, Gives a Private Lesson
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