Executive Director and Dean • Department Coordinators Strings • Woodwinds • Brass • Percussion • Guitar Piano • Organ • Voice • Staff Accompanists • Chamber Music Composition • Conducting • Eurhythmics • Musicianship Music Technology Lab • Jazz Studies Program The Preschool Center Composition DANIEL BREWBAKER - Composition M.M. and D.M.A., The Juilliard School. Studied: Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter. Awards: three Nadia Boulanger Awards, Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rotary Fellowship to Germany, Koussevitzky Fellowship to Tanglewood. Commissions: large scale choral and orchestral works for Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus (The Poet) for the 200th Anniversary of Alexander Pushkin’s birth; Gerard Schwarz, The New York Chamber Symphony and the New York Young People’s Chorus (Fields of Vision) for the Millenium; Dianne Berkun and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus (birdsong) for the opening of Zankel Hall; Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony (Dark Angel) for their 100th Anniversary; Frederica von Stade and Music in the Vineyards (The Journey); Chanticleer, and Yuri Temirkanov and the Baltimore Symphony for a Violin Concerto premiered by Vadim Repin, among others. RICHARD CARRICK - Composition, Music Technology Lab, Musicianship B.A. Music/Mathematics Columbia University, Studied Mario Davidovsky, David Rakowski. M.A. and Ph.D. University of California-San Diego, Studied Brian Ferneyhough, Aleck Karis (piano). Director and Pianist Either/Or Music Ensemble, NYC. Composition performance highlights include the Konzerthaus Vienna, Paradiso Amsterdam, Merkin Theatre New York, LACMA Los Angeles, Darmstadt Summer Festival. Residences and performances at IRCAM, Banff Centre for the Arts, Royaumont and Fontainbleau, Wellesley Composers Conference, Lange Nacht fur Neuw Klang Austria, MATA. Teaching Artist for NY Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program. Former Lecturer in Music Theory and Musicianship at UC-San Diego. top of page