Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

The intricately crafted artistic visions of four Northwestern music composition undergraduate students filled the Regenstein Master Class Room on Thursday night. Bienen’s music composition department ...

Sean Friar, a graduate student in the music department, has won a 2011 Samuel Barber Rome Prize in musical composition and is the youngest winner of the prize in over a quarter of a century. The award ...