MFA in Music Composition Archive

CENTER FOR ART + SOCIAL JUSTICE STORIES: Meet composer and class of 2023 graduate Christopher Cobley, one of two recipients of VCFA’s 2022 Center for...

In late 2023, it was announced that VCFA MFA in Music Composition Alumnx Daniel Gil (MC ’22) was nominated to be in the first round...

Devin Barone DVB (he/they) is a composer, percussionist, & friend from Bay Shore, NY, currently residing in Saratoga Springs.

Pianist/Composer/Educator Angelica Sanchez moved to New York from Arizona in 1994. Since moving to the East Coast Sanchez has collaborated with such notable artists as...

Geof Bradfield’s work as a composer and performer on saxophones and clarinets embraces intersections of modern jazz and other streams of African Diaspora music, drawing...

Clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, Colorado. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo and studied improvisation with Steve...

Interdisciplinary flutist/composer Tessa Brinckman has been praised as a “flutist of chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone), an “excellent…flutist” (Willamette Week) and “highlight of Portland”...

Don’s music career began in the 1980s. He worked extensively in regional theater, notably The American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA) and Anne Bogart’s SITI Company...

Robert Frankenberry enjoys a multi-faceted relationship with music as a singer, pianist, conductor, orchestrator, director, and even occasionally as a composer.

“Art is change. Art is a catalyst for organizing and moving people to action. Art has the power to reflect / reimagine / articulate ...