PERCUSSIONIST: BOB HANDELMAN/COURTESY OF YALE. SF CONSERVATORY: CARLIN MA PHOTOGRAPHY/ COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. CELLIST: COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

Juilliard offers a world-renowned conservatory education in pure music as well as its Center for Innovation in the Arts, which includes media scoring classes such as composing for visual media ...

And if the director also happens to have had a hand in the writing of the music, you’d imagine that the potential for conflict would be even higher. This was the scenario faced by Rihards Zalupe ...

To me, that was the same as composing, the same as cooking – building something that has aesthetics and purpose. Eventually I switched to music engineering, because that would allow me to get ...

When we spoke, he had just spent several months composing and performing music around the U.S. (SOUNDBITE OF CUATRO PUNTOS AND AMEEN MOKDAD'S "FROM HER, SCENE NO. 203") SHAPIRO: I think many ...

Cage was notorious for his radically innovative music, which challenged conventional ideas about harmony and composition. (He rejected the former and approached the latter with chance operations.) ...

“Probably 12 hours out of heart surgery, and she already had her computer up, opened and was composing new music.” Album inspired by trains Cynthia recently put out an album called “The ...

Twenty-four year old composer and musical prodigy Quinn Mason, a graduate of North Dallas High School, has been making music since he ... who has been composing nonstop from his family’s Dallas ...

But computers have been composing music for decades. Computer assisted composition has been around since the 1970s, spearheaded by influential musicians such as Pierre Boulez, one of the early ...