Composition Guests

Visiting Artists

Composers and new music ensembles are a regular feature of the UNCSA experience. Coaching and recording new music, answering questions and enlivening the discourse on the nature of new music, these artists bring varied perspectives to the development of our students.

Caroline Shaw coaches an ensemble in Composition Seminar.

Recent guest composers include:

Caroline Shaw
Samuel Adler
Huang Ruo
Augusta Read Thomas
Steven Bryant
Danny Elfman
Mason Bates
David Maslanka
Mario Davidovsky
David Smooke
Mara Helmuth
David Sanford
Kenneth Amis
Tyson Davis

Kamala Sankaram
Robert Yekovich
Randall Woolf
Margaret Sandresky
Eleonor Sandresky
Jason Brett Klein
Charles Fussell
Arthur Kreiger
Loren Loiacono
Jeffrey Holmes
Jennifer Higdon
David Ludwig
Omar Thomas
Robert Chumbley

Composer Spotlight

Every year, the Composition Department focuses on a specific living composer in our Composer Spotlight feature. We study that composer's music, discuss specific works, then meet with the composer to get his or her insights directly. In recent years, we've spotlighted the following composers:

Guest Recording Sessions

Guest ensembles and soloists come for recording sessions of music by UNCSA students every year. Recent guest recording sessions have been with:

Eighth Blackbird with Composition students Alexander Umfleet and Zachary Mackey