Composition

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw was featured as the 2021/22 Pulitzer Prize Composer series featured artist. She participated in a brief residency at the conservatory…

“Surroundings: A Catalog of Aspects for Digital Choir,” an outdoor sound installation created by Chance Morris ’24 (Bachelor of Music in Composition), opened on Friday,…

Chance Morris ’24 (Bachelor of Music in Composition) was selected to make a sound installation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) as part…

Associate Adjunct Professor of Music Theory Matthew Herman, D.M.A., received an honorable mention in the 2020 Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Distinguished Composer Competition for…

Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown visited Shenandoah Conservatory on Wednesday, Sept. 17, and Thursday, Sept. 18. During his visit, Brown was the featured…

A new work by Director of Composition, Coordinator of New Music and Associate Professor of Composition Jonathan Newman, M.M., will premiere on Sept. 27, in…

Joel Puckett ’99 (Bachelor of Music in Composition) was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera as part of its New Works Initiative to write a full-length…

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and new music ensemble Novus NY will present a new mass by Director of Composition and Coordinator of New…

A solo composition for glissando flute titled “Ligeia” by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Theory Amanda Bono, D.M.A., was accepted for publication in Women and…

A short work for bassoon and piano by famed French composer Jacques Ibert has been published for the first time after lying nearly silent for…