Student Composition Competition: For information about this competition, open to all student composers under the age of 35, click here.

One American composition student will receive the ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellowship. This fellowship includes a full tuition scholarship. All American composition students are eligible for this fellowship.

FACULTY: COMPOSITION

Samuel Adler: Inducted
into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2002. Studied at Boston and Harvard Universities; holds four honorary doctorates. Conducting studies with Serge Koussevitsky and composition with Aaron Copland, Paul Hindemith, Hugo Norden, Walter Piston, and Randall Thompson. Awards and grants: National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship, Charles Ives Award, Lillian Fairchild Award, Deems Taylor Award for his book Orchestration, Boston University Distinguished Alumnus Award, Music Teachers' National Association "Composer of the Year" Award, Eastman School's Eisenhart Award for distinguished teaching. Commissions from the Koussevitsky Foundation, Kentucky Arts Commission, Sinfonia Foundation, City of Jerusalem, Barlow Foundation, Dallas Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Cleveland Quartet, Welsh Arts Council. Compositions performed by the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Houston National Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Fine Arts Quartet, Pro Arte Quartet, and others. Recordings on RCA, Vanguard, Crystal, CRI, Lyrichord, Mark, Turnabout, Gasparo, Golden Crest, Vox Records. The Juilliard School faculty since 1997. In residence for second three-week session.

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Claude Baker:   faculty, Indiana University – Jacobs School of Music.   Holds a doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music, where his principal composition teachers were Samuel Adler and Warren Benson. As a composer, Mr. Baker has received a number of professional honors, including an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards; the Eastman-Leonard and George Eastman Prizes; a "Manuel de Falla" Prize (Madrid); BMI-SCA and ASCAP awards; commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations; and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation and the state arts councils of Indiana, Kentucky and New York.   Among the orchestras that have performed his music are those of Saint Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Louisville, as well as the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de RTV Española and the Orquesta Nacional de España. His works are published by MMB Music and Carl Fischer, and are recorded on the ACA, Gasparo and Louisville First Edition labels.    In residence June 21 - July 5.

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Simone Fontanelli: Composer and conductor. Since 2000, teacher of New Music at the University of Mozarteum in Salzburg. Conducting studies in Hungary with L. Somogyi and P. Eötvös, specializing in modern and contemporary repertoire. Conductor of the Milano Ensemble (1985-1988), of the Latina Logos Ens.(1985-1988) and of the Nuovi Spazi Sonori Ens.(1989-1991). "Diploma di Merito" in 1980 and 1981 in Instrumental Contemporary Music at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. Composing studies at the Milan Conservatory; graduated in 1989. First prize at the Ville de Bagneux (France) International Competition (1988) with "Infin che'l mar fu sopra noi richiuso", for ensemble. His orchestral work "Dove nessuno passa" won the first prize at the Salzburg "International Mozart Competition" in 1995. Gives lectures and workshops on Music Analysis, Chamber Music, Ensemble Conducting and Composition throughout Europe. Regularly gives masterclasses and concerts at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In residence July 5- August 2.

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