Music Composition

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2013 graduates!

Brian Rice, DMA Composition
John Henderson, BM Composition

We wish them good fortune and much success in the years to come.

CUA COMPOSERS IN PERFORMANCE

Watch a portion of the Baccalaureate Mass featuring a new work by Brian Rice (DMA, 2013), Procession of the Robes: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRwNIq_d22k

Watch Next Parallel Ensemble perform a movement from CUA faculty Andrew Simpson's Chamber Concerto: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaUjEgDk1c

March 22, 2013: Jason R. Lovelace, Clinical Assistant Professor, will premiere his new piano composition, Nocturne: Inversions at the College Music Society Rocky Mountain Chapter Conference in Denver, CO.

March 20, 2013: Jeff Cortazo, doctoral candidate at CUA, will celebrate the premiere of Mesozoic Suite for 12 trombones and percussion, by the Washington Trombone Ensemble at Brucker Hall in Ft. Myer, VA.

Friday, February 1, 2013: Pictures on Silence premieres Andrew Simpson's Orpheus and the Secret Road, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC

NEW VOICES a success!  Congratulations to the students and CUA composers who performed and had works performed on the 3rd annual festival. 

October 2012: Jeff Cortazzo, doctoral candidate at CUA, enjoyed the performance of his  Piedmont Sonata during a joint concert between the U.S. Army's woodwind quintet Pershing's Own and performers of China's People's Liberation Army Band.  The performance was held in Beijing, China.

Sunday, October 7, 2012: Andrew Simpson, head of Theory--Composition, will be premiering his new silent film score for the movie The Yellow Ticket at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy.

November 15-18, 2012: Brian Rice, doctoral candidate in composition, created the pit arrangement for CUA's fall opera production, The Merry Widow. 

December 31, 2012: Justus Parrotta, doctoral candidate in composition, will be premiering a new organ work at St. Columbia's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC.

January 25-26, 2013: New Voices @ CUA: A very successful student-run, two-day festival of vocal music, which debuted in 2010, will take place for a third year in January 2013.  The festival includes four recitals of new music and features the Great Noise Ensemble, Ensemble in Residence for the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music.