Composition

专业介绍

The Department of Composition comprises a distinguished faculty of internationally-known composers who empower, guide, and encourage students to explore and develop their own stylistic voice and give them the tools to realize their creative goals. The department features a vibrant diversity of styles and music/cultural practices among students and faculty, ranging from avant-garde experimentalism to popular music styles, composing for film, drama, dance, and more. Composition students at the University of Michigan work at the highest technical and artistic levels, and are encouraged to challenge the status quo by creating works that explore a wide range of media and styles.

During the pandemic quarantines of 2020, with limited options for public performance, composers were compelled to adopt a more interdisciplinary and collaborative focus, blending audio/video/Internet into a unified expression, and this multi-stream focus has become an artistic genre in itself. There is also growing interest in improvisation, electro-acoustic instrumentation, musics from other cultures. Ample performance opportunities, a lively performer-composer collaborative environment, outstanding facilities, and an innovative career-training program contribute to the University of Michigan’s reputation as one of the country’s premier centers for the training of composers.