MFA in Music Composition Stories

Join the VCFA MFA in Music Composition community for Vespa, A Girl and Her Pet Wasp, an opera in four acts.  The story of Vespa...

VCFA MFA in Music Composition alumnx and 2024 Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellow  Benjamin Zervigón (MC ‘24) has not only continued the work...

On December 19, 2024, VCFA MFA in Music Composition Faculty Co-Chair, composer, and violinist Roger Zahab and VCFA resident pianist and residency faculty Robert Frankenberry...

Composer Rick Baitz is a founding faculty member of the VCFA MFA in Music Composition Program. Established in 2011, the VCFA MFA in Music Composition...

VCFA interviewed MFA in Music Composition faculty member Ravi Krishnaswami about his career scoring for everything from Super Bowl ads to best-selling video games for...

In 2024, VCFA MFA in Writing and MFA in Music Composition alumnx Shanta Lee (W ‘21) and Damon Honeycutt (MC ‘16) collaborated on the multimedia...

Pianist, violist, composer, and VCFA MFA in Music Composition alumnx Aruán Ortiz (MC ‘18) was recently awarded a distinguished 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition...

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...

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

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...