The music composition program is designed to prepare students for graduate work in composition or for freelance work as composers, copyists, or arrangers. The curriculum includes a strong emphasis on analog and digital synthesis and on current computer applications for the preparation of musical scores. Additional course work is available in recording technologies.
Bachelor of Music in Composition
See the Bulletin for the composition major »
Faculty
Dr. Janna Saslaw
Coordintor of the Composition program at the Loyola School of Music.
Student Composer's Forum, Theory III-IV, Form & Analysis I-II
Dr. James Walsh
Private Composition Lessons
Dr. Louise LaBruyère
Student Composer's Forum, Piano I-II, Theory I-II
Dr. William Horne
Counterpoint, Orchestration
Dr. James MacKay
Private Composition Lessons
Recent Graduates
Alex Burtzos
DMA in composition, Manhattan School of Music
Joshua Eustis
Member of Nine Inch Nails, and Telefon Tel Aviv
Ryan Olivier
PHD in composition, Temple University
Sarah Ann Phillips
MM in composition, California Institute of the Arts
Joseph Shirley
Film composer, co-owner Magnolia Music House, Cardinal Sons (band)
Ransom Prestridge
MM in composition, Peabody Institute
William Reed
Music Department chair, Wooster School, Danbury, CT
Jason Sagebiel
MA in composition, Queens College, NY; owner of Sage Music; Orchestra Director of the New York Guitar Ensemble