Welcome to the Music Composition program at CUA!  We are a vibrant, innovative, and growing program preparing students at all levels for successful careers in new music.  We invite you to learn more about our activities, our faculty, and our students.

Updates to these pages for the 2009/2010 school year are underway.  Check back in with us as the semester progresses for up-to-date info on all things new music at CUA!

Composition Calendar, Fall 09		Competitions and Opportunities		Visiting Composers Series
Careers in composition		Links to new music sites		New music from CUA (mp3 files)

Division Recital Scheduled for Friday the 13th, November 2009!  Our upcoming division recital will feature exciting new chamber music by John Henderson, Sarah Horick, and Andrew Nicolette, as well as some recent electronic music by CUA composers.  Join us in Ward Recital Hall at 7:30 pm. DMA composition student Sarah Horick will have her piece Looking-Glass Changes performed at the Electronic Music Midwest festival in Kansas City, KS on November 7th, 2009.  SCI is off to great start for the year:  a program of new music put on by CUA's chapter of Society of Composers Incorporated takes place on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 at 7:30 pm, in Ward Recital Hall. CUA composers featured on the university home page!  Click here to read the story about the impact which CUA student and alumni composers are having in the DC metro area. WELCOME to the new year!! We are looking forward to meeting our new Composition majors, who are entering in each degree program: DMA, MM (both Stage Music and Concert Music Emphases), and BM.  Our division's activities continue to grow and diversify, and we are eager to begin a new season. MM Stage Music composers' works to be presented at the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage Festival.  Two operas created in the Stage Music program will receive performances on Sept. 5 and 6.  "Magnum Opus," by Michael Oberhauser (MM Composition 2008), will be performed at 7:30 PM on Saturday, Sept. 5; and "Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadows," by Steven M. Allen (MM Composition student) will be performed at 4:30 PM on Sunday, Sept. 6.  Click here for more details in our events calendar.