YOU DID IT! Congratulations on your offer of admission! IT’S ALL HERE. PLEASE JOIN US! DEGREES COMPOSITION + THEORY PROGRAM Cali School of Music composers hone their individual artistic voices as they work with BACHELOR OF MUSIC internationally-acclaimed faculty and distinguished guest artists. Besides annual reading MASTERS OF MUSIC sessions with the MSU Symphony Orchestra, the graduate string quartet, and the MSU Symphonic COMPOSITION + THEORY Band, composition student works are regularly performed by both the MSU New Music Ensemble and the Electronic Music Ensemble. “The Montclair State University composition program has provided The Composition program weekly colloquium me with a perfect environment for features master classes and guest lectures with learning and growing as a composer many of today’s most prominent composers and contemporary music performers. Recent and musician. At the same time as guests include composers Du Yun (Pulitzer Prize), I am pushed to explore new depths Zosha di Castri (Columbia University), Patricia and reach greater heights, I always Alessandrini (Stanford University), Augusta feel that my professors and peers Read Thomas (Grammy Award), and Phyllis accept me and that my ideas/ Chen, as well as members of the International opinions are valued.” Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and Alarm Will Sound. Our recent alumni have been accepted —KYLAN HILLMAN, COMPOSITION into prestigious graduate composition programs FACULTY STUDENT, CLASS OF 2020 such as Columbia University, Princeton University, COMPOSITION Photo by Mike Peters Mike by Photo Northwestern University, University of Pittsburgh, Marcos Balter, and have received coveted fellowships and awards Music Composition/Theory/ both nationally and internationally. Technology Coordinator Scott Davenport Richards New York city’s cultural riches and vibrant new music scene are only 12 miles away. Montclair THEORY State University also hosts the critically-acclaimed Krists Auznieks Peak Performances, a concert series that Nora Bartosik Kevin Brown commissions, incubates, and premieres works by Patrick Burns new music luminaries such as Kate Soper, Ashley Nathaniel May Fure, Michel van der Aa, Julia Wolfe, and Caroline Marla Meissner Shaw, among others. Eric Olsen Amy Reich Tyler Rubin montclair.edu/music Martin Sedek Contact us: 973.655.7610 [email protected] ELECTRONIC MUSIC Marcos Balter 973.655.4120 Murat Çolak IT’S ALL HERE. [email protected] Monte Weber