Composers of national and international renown visit the School of Music every year and participate in lectures, masterclasses and performances.

Past visitors include:

Samuel Adler  |  James Aikman  |  Luca Antignani  |  Daniel Asia  |  Milton Babbitt  |  Katherine Balch  |  Leslie Bassett  |  Derek Bermel  |  David Biedenbender  |  Harrison Birtwistle  |  William Bolcom  |  Brenton Broadstock  |  Margaret Brouwer  |  Earle Brown  |  Warren Benson  |  Zosha di Castri  |  Dorothy Chang  | Ryan Chase | Paul Chihara  |  Yie-Eun Chun  |  Michael Colgrass  |  John Corigliano  |  Andreia Pinto Correia  |  Cindy Cox  |  George Crumb  |  Sebastian Currier  |  Michael Daugherty  |  James Dashow  |  Tansy Davies  |  David Del Tredici  |  Lawrence Dillon  |  Wayne Dixon  |  Charles Dodge  |  Jacob Druckman  |  Moritz Eggert  |  Donald Erb  |  Eric Ewazen  |  Keith Fitch  |  Lukas Foss  |  Gabriela Frank  |  Stefan Freund  |  Dai Fujikura  |  Michael Gandolfi  |  Philip Glass  |  Daniel Godfrey  |  Oswaldo Golijov  |  Annie Gosfield  |  Donald Grantham  |  Jorge Villavicencio Grossman  |  Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen  |  Georg Haas  |  John Harbison  |  Stephen Hartke  |  David Heuser  |  Jennifer Higdon  |  Anders Hillborg  |  Sydney Hodkinson  |  Karel Husa  |  Lee Hyla  |  Andrew Imbrie  |  Masahiro Ishijima  |  Betsy Jolas  |  Hitomi Kaneko  |  Aaron Jay Kernis  |  Mark Kilstofte  |  Texu Kim  |  Joe Klein  |  Tonia Ko  |  Barbara Kolb  |  William Kraft  |  David Lang  |  Libby Larsen  |  Hannah Lash  |  Gustavo Leone  |  Jie-Sun Li   |  David Liptak  |  David Ludwig  |  Zhou Long  |  David Ludwig  |  Steven Mackey  |  Sky Macklay | James MacMillan  |  Paula Matthusen  |  John McCabe  |  Cindy McTee  |  Alex Mincek  |  James Mobberley  |  Robert Moran  |  Jeffrey Mumford  |  Tristan Murail  |  Eric Nathan  |  Clint Needham  |  Andrew Norman |  Elizabeth Ogonek  |  Gabriela Ortiz  |  Arvo Part  |  Stephen Paulus  |  Wayne Petersen  |  Joel Puckett  |  Shulamit Ran  |  Bernard Rands  |  Karl Aage Rasmussen  |  Steve Reich  |  Bruce Reiprich  |  Roger Reynolds  |  George Rochberg  |  Ned Rorem  |  Christopher Rouse  |  Steve Rouse  |  Poul Ruders  |  Frederic Rzewski  |  Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez  |  Felipe Perez Santiago | Gunther Schuller  |  Laura Schwendinger |  Marilyn Shrude  |  Roberto Sierra  |  Harvey Sollberger  |  Kate Soper  |  Lewis Spratlan  |  David Stock  |  Steven Stucky  |  Kotoka Suzuki  |  Toru Takemitsu  |  Augusta Read Thomas  |  Frank Tichelli  |  Michael Torke  |  Joan Tower  |  George Tsontakis  |  Ken Ueno  |  Chinary Ung  |  Melinda Wagner  |  Dan Welcher  |  Richard Wernick  |  Chou Wen Chung  |  Scott Wheeler  |  Olly Wilson  |  Julia Wolfe  |  Eric Wubbels  |  Charles Wuorinen  |  Chen Yi  |  Beomseok Yoo  |  Nina C. Young  |  Du Yun  |  Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon  |  Mischa Zupko  |  Ramon Zupko  |  Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Guest Composer Lessons, 2021–2022

During the academic year, a number of composers will be visiting the Jacobs School of Music and have agreed to spend multiple semi-private meetings with our students, critiquing work and having discussions. 2-3 students share each time slot. You are asked to present one completed work (both score and recording) to the meeting, where about 30 minutes will be devoted to your music. All listed composers should stay the duration of the whole time slot to take advantage of the insights offered by the guest. Our thanks to the Student Composers Association for helping to bring in these guests!