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Contemporary Composition Program

A comprehensive program for musicians, composers, and producers seeking to expand their creative and technical possibilities. The curriculum integrates harmony, rhythm, musical form, orchestration, sound production, audiovisual composition, acoustics, and contemporary compositional systems.

Through musical analysis, practical exercises, and sonic experimentation, students develop the tools to understand, construct, and transform musical ideas while building their own compositional language.

Format: Hybrid (in-person and online)

Schedule: Tuesdays, 8:00–10:00 PM

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String Quartet Composition

Study of string quartet writing through counterpoint, texture, orchestration, and idiomatic instrumental techniques.

Jazz Harmony

An exploration of harmony from acoustics and tuning systems to contemporary theories of tension, modality, and harmonic perception.

Nature of Musical Harmony

Explores acoustic foundations of harmony through physics, physiology and cognition.

Ear Training and Transcription

Developing skills to write and understand the music inside our heads or already existing music.

Color Theory in Music

Understanding transformational space in music, from modes to neo-Riemmanian theory, group theory and world music.

Big Band Jazz Composition

Professional approaches to big band writing, including orchestration, harmonic techniques, voicing, and stylistic analysis through classic repertoire.