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 all sections of the site for the spring 2010 semester will be arriving shortly.  An evening of stage music scenes, our first event of the semester, is coming up on Friday, January 15th at 7:30pm in Ward Hall.  Other events we're looking forward to are visits from several distinguished guests to our composer seminar, and our annual concert events. 

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

From the Fall 2009 semester:

CUA student, faculty works to be showcased on the annual Christmas Concert for Charity on Friday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 PM in the Basilica of the National Shrine (this concert was broadcast worldwide on EWTN, the global Catholic cable TV network, on Dec 23rd and 25th!).  Click here for more information. The Great Noise Ensemble, the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music's Ensemble in Residence, will present the DC premiere of CUA faculty composer Andrew Earle Simpson's lotus and poppy at its concert on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 PM in Ward Recital Hall.  Click here for more information.  DMA student Kyle Gullings' piece, in memoriam Hibakusha, has been selected for inclusion on the 2010 SCI National Student Conference at Marshall University, March 5-6. 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.