MFA in Music Composition Stories

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...

Oscar participated in an e-interview with us in November of 2020. Below are edited excerpts from our conversations about music, moving between genres, and studying...

VCFA 2017 Music Composition alumnx Kyle Pederson has recently been awarded the 2020 ACDA Genesis Prize for his collaborative composition, “Call Across.” In his piece,...

After completing her MFA in Music Composition at VCFA in 2014, alumnx Jessica Muñiz-Collado has been in the studio and on the stage. From 2019...