Music: Related Content
![Image of Nicholas Brooke](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/BrookeNicholas_320x230px.jpg?itok=m7SkwVFG)
Nicholas Brooke creates music across disciplines, from collages of recordings with live theater, to home-built instrumentariums inspired by gamelan. He has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and New Music USA fellowships and premieres at the Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto, and MASS MOCA.
![Image of Jen Allen](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Allen_Jen2.jpg?itok=RNVJgwPb)
Jen Allen is a pianist, composer and author. She frequently performs in New York, the Northeast US and in venues throughout the world, as the leader of her own groups or as a member of other creative music ensembles.
![Image of Virginia Kelsey](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/virginia-warnken-kelsey_320x230px.jpg?itok=5hXu7gul)
Virginia Warnken Kelsey, mezzo-soprano, is internationally celebrated for her heartfelt and dynamic interpretations of Baroque opera, oratorio, and contemporary chamber music. She maintains an active career in an adventurous assortment of musical and artistic settings.
![Image of Elizabeth Swados](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Swados_Elizabeth_640x460.jpg?itok=tL9_ZSzo)
Composer, writer, and director who fashioned a unique style of socially engaged musical theatre
Photograph © Jack Mitchell (New York Times)
![Image of Ahrin Mishan](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Mishan_Ahrin_640x460.jpg?itok=dNnMqsYD)
Executive director of The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of patients and their families through nurse-led innovation, and a member of the board of directors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
![Milford Graves](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Milford_Graves_320x230.jpg?itok=W9Jz13yw)
Internationally acclaimed jazz musician and theorist Milford Graves has been the recipient of honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Down Beat International Award, and the Critics Award. Photo credit: Noa Ben-Amotz
![Image of Matthew Edwards](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/EdwardsMatthew_320x230px.jpg?itok=vzrRypwN)
Matthew Edwards is the piano instructor for the student that wants to learn multiple styles of music including classical, blues, jazz, and pop styles.
![Image of Nathaniel Parke](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/ParkeNathaniel_320x230px.jpg?itok=_EGAgKgq)
Nathaniel Parke is a regional freelance cellist and is also on the faculty of Williams College.
![Image of Suzanne Thorpe](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Thorpe_Suzanne_320x230px.jpg?itok=16L2sQfT)
Suzanne Thorpe is an award-winning electroacoustic flutist and composer, as well as a researcher and educator, whose work migrates between fixed, improvised, performed and installed forms. She employs an evolving array of technologies, listening for sound qualities and timbres, and moments to introduce them to each other. Drawing upon traditions of soundscape, land art, and improvisation, as well as research in new materialism, environmental ethics and systems inquiry, she composes works that reference the dynamic relationships between sound, place and its inhabitants.
![Image of William Parker](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Parker%2C%20William_320x230px.jpg?itok=I92F9KEP)
Since 1972 William Parker has been a significant figure in the world of black music. He has contributed to the language of improvisation as a valid form of musical composition.
![Image of Thann Scoggin](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/scoggin-thann_320x230px.jpg?itok=kWQYYSSn)
Grammy Award-winning vocalist Thann Scoggin has thrived on the cutting edge of the contemporary new music landscape as well as the historically-informed performance practices of the nation’s finest early music ensembles. He is particularly interested in the juxtaposition of refined and pristine vocal sounds against the often guttural sounds found in many folk and popular traditions.
![Image of Kerry Ryer-Parke](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Ryer-ParkeKerry_320x230px.jpg?itok=49oCOMQt)
Kerry Ryer-Parke '90 performs in a range of musical styles, from oratorio, opera, and early music to folk, jazz, and rock, in addition to directing the Bennington Children’s Chorus and Bennington Voice Workshop.
![Singer Mari Cook performing in front of a colorful projection at Rubulad](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/SariRubinsteinLR_0.jpg?itok=jHHgxt2p)
Pictured: Singer Mira Cook performing at Rubulad. Projections by the Sperm Whale. Photo: Briee Della Rocca.
![Image of Joan Tower](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Tower_Joan_640x460.jpg?itok=ozotKQF7)
Grammy-winning American composer hailed by The New Yorker as “one of the most successful woman composers of all time”
![Image of Joe Alpar](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Alpar%2C%20Joe_320x230_2.jpg?itok=rC1riGfc)
Joseph Alpar's research focuses on the anthropology of music in Turkey and the Middle East, and the relationships between music, spirituality, modernity, marginalization, social expression, and identity.
![Image of Joana Genova](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/genova-joana_320x230px.jpg?itok=X10OfJIO)
Violinist Joana Genova is active as a chamber musician, teacher, orchestral player and a soloist. She is Co-Artistic Director of Taconic Music in Manchester, VT and the second violinist of The Indianapolis Quartet.
![Joan Forsyth](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Forsyth_Joan_320x230.jpg?itok=7XxuEiuc)
Pianist whose performing career has taken her from The Kennedy Center to tours of Europe, Japan, and South America
Curtis Wells turned a degree in engineering into an expertise for fixing electronics and optimizing audio gear—skills he puts to good use in his support of faculty and student work in music.
![Image of Brian Chase](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Chase_Brian_320x230px.jpg?itok=UOmiHhxz)
Brian Chase is a Brooklyn based drummer and composer active as a performer in contemporary rock and experimental music communities.
![Image of Sergei Tcherepnin](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Tcherepnin_Sergei_2_320x230.jpg?itok=CHytRCQW)
Sergei Tcherepnin is an artist operating at the intersections of sound, sculpture and theater. Attaching synthesizers, computers and amplifiers to small surface transducers (devices that convert electrical signals into vibrations) he orchestrates complex multi-channel compositions in which objects are transformed into speakers.
![Image of Allen Shawn](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/ShawnAllen_320x230px.jpg?itok=A7LT1Wm1)
Allen Shawn’s work as a composer and pianist comprises a large catalogue of orchestral and chamber music, chamber operas, songs, piano music, and music for ballet, theatre, and film; he is also celebrated for his writings on Arnold Schoenberg and Leonard Bernstein, as well as his compelling memoirs.
![Image of Amirtha Kidambi](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/amirtha-kidambi_320x230px.jpg?itok=blPOrTey)
Amirtha Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of subversive anti-hegemonic music, from free improvisation and avant-jazz to experimental bands, noise and new music. She is an educator, activist and organizer working to challenge systems of white supremacist, colonial, capitalist, and patriarchy, and is co-founder and co-organizer of South Asian Artists in Diaspora and Musicians Against Police Brutality.
![Image of Susannah Waters](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/alumni/Waters_Susannah_640x460.jpg?itok=hhSh4SQX)
Opera singer who performed principal roles in many of the world’s leading opera houses, award-winning novelist, and producer and director of critically acclaimed theatrical productions
![Image of John Kirk](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/KirkJohn_320x230.jpg?itok=asJ2GGXB)
John Kirk teaches classes in the history of American and Celtic traditional music in addition to mandolin, fiddle, banjo, ukulele, mountain and hammered dulcimers, and traditional music ensemble.
![Image of Andrew Greenwald](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Greenwald_andrew_320x230px_0.jpg?itok=Jp4S4tPK)
Andrew Greenwald is a performing and composing musician. He is a founding member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse (established 2002) and currently serves as the Artistic Director. His compositions have been performed internationally by leading ensembles including the Arditti Quartet, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Adapter, Distractfold and ICE among others.
![Image of Cecilia Lopez](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/faculty/Lopez%2C%20Cecilia_320x230px.jpg?itok=nxwJtTDe)
Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation and the creation of sound devices and systems.