MFA in Music Composition Archive

Fellowship grant funds from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation will support the two VCFA faculty members' creative work and scholarship.

Exploring the personal and the idiosyncratic aspects of music-making, Brooklyn composer Lainie Fefferman’s most recent commissions have been from ETHEL, Kathleen Supov, TILT Brass, James...

Berkeley-based composer, bassist, improviser, and producer Lisa Mezzacappa has been an active part of California’s vibrant music community for nearly 20 years. Her activities as...

The Voice/Piano Trio is Stephanie Meyers, Robert Frankenberry, and Jeremy Siskind.

Equally at home performing new contemporary and experimental works, playing to picture, improvising on jazz pieces, backing songwriters, and more, Anna’s Ghost plays and performs...

Described by the New York Times as possessing an "edgy, unflagging energy," Talujon has committed itself to the growth of contemporary percussion music...

American cellist Ashley Bathgate has been described as an “eloquent new music interpreter”(New York Times) and “a glorious cellist” (...

Since its founding in 1990, Chatham Baroque has become “One of the country’s most distinguished period ensembles” (Palisadian Post),...

In this season of giving thanks and celebrating connections, we are grateful to everyone in the VCFA community.

Current Music Composition student John Paul Labno has been involved with music one way or another ever since childhood. Today, John Paul is well known...