Composers
From modern classics to the wonderfully wild, music by Yaddo composers inspires global ovation.
| Name | DISCIPLINE |
|---|---|
| Efrain Amaya | Artist Composer |
| Paul Castles | Artist Composer |
| Riad Abdel-Gawad | Artist Composer |
| Leslie Adams | Artist Composer |
| Judah E. Adashi | Artist Composer |
| Lan Adomian | Artist Composer |
| Kati Ilona Agocs | Artist Composer |
| Kathryn Alexander | Artist Composer |
| Judith Shatin Allen | Artist Composer |
| Tetsuo Amemiya | Artist Composer |
| Martin Amlin | Artist Composer |
| Laura Andel | Artist Composer |
| Ruth J. Anderson | Artist Composer |
| T.J. Anderson | Artist Composer |
| Ingrid C. Arauco | Artist Composer |
| Charles Argersinger | Artist Composer |
| Elinor Armer | Artist Composer |
| Walter Aschaffenburg | Artist Composer |
| Clarice Assad | Artist Composer |
| Paul Austerlitz | Artist Composer |
| Larry Austin | Artist Composer |
| Jacob Avshalomoff | Artist Composer |
| Glenn Bacon | Artist Composer |
| Rick Baitz | Artist Composer |
| W. Claude Baker Jr. | Artist Composer |
| George Barati | Artist Composer |
| Matthew Barnson | Artist Composer |
| Nathan Barr | Artist Composer |
| Robert Basart | Artist Composer |
| Randy Bauer | Artist Composer |
| Marion Bauer | Artist Composer |
| Irwin Bazelon | Artist Composer |
| John Beall | Artist Composer |
| Jeremy Howard Beck | Artist Composer |
| Gordon Beeferman | Artist Composer |
| Thomas E. Benjamin | Artist Composer |
| Nicolai Berezowsky | Artist Composer |
| Christopher Berg | Artist Composer |
| Arthur V. Berger | Artist Composer |
| Derek Bermel | Artist Composer |
| Leonard Bernstein | Artist Composer |
| Charles Bestor | Artist Composer |
| Paul Betjeman | Artist Composer |
| Brian Bevelander | Artist Composer |
| Hayes Biggs | Artist Composer |
| Gordon Binkerd | Artist Composer |
| Eugene Birman | Artist Composer |
| Marc Blitzstein | Artist Composer |
| Harold Blumenfeld | Artist Composer |
| Philippe Bodin | Artist Composer |
| Zelman Bokser | Artist Composer |
| Marita Bolles | Artist Composer |
| James Boros | Artist Composer |
| Alla Borzova | Artist Composer |
| Linda Bouchard | Artist Composer |
| Paul Frederick Bowles | Artist Composer |
| Martin Boykan | Artist Composer |
| David Brackett | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Brewbaker | Artist Composer |
| Thomas Briccetti | Artist Composer |
| Todd Brief | Artist Composer |
| Whitman P. Brown | Artist Composer |
| Elizabeth C. Brown | Artist Composer |
| Mark Bucci | Artist Composer |
| Steven Burke | Artist Composer |
| Gerald Busby | Artist Composer |
| Garrett Byrnes | Artist Composer |
| Stephen Cabell | Artist Composer |
| Ann M. Callaway | Artist Composer |
| George Calusdian | Artist Composer |
| Robert B. Carl | Artist Composer |
| Frank Carlberg | Artist Composer |
| Sophie Cash-Goldwasser | Artist Composer |
| Arcangel Castillo Olivari | Artist Composer |
| Christopher Cerrone | Artist Composer |
| Evan Chambers | Artist Composer |
| Chao-Jan Chang | Artist Composer |
| Anthony Cheung | Artist Composer |
| Paul Chihara | Artist Composer |
| Peter Child | Artist Composer |
| Mary Ellen Childs | Artist Composer |
| Sabang Cho | Artist Composer |
| Tom Cipullo | Artist Composer |
| Israel Citkowitz | Artist Composer |
| Stephen M. Clark | Artist Composer |
| Harold Clayton | Artist Composer |
| Andrea Clearfield | Artist Composer |
| David Cleary | Artist Composer |
| Anna Clyne | Artist Composer |
| Gloria Coates | Artist Composer |
| William E. Coble | Artist Composer |
| Robert Coburn | Artist Composer |
| Gerald Cohen | Artist Composer |
| Allen Cohen | Artist Composer |
| Arthur Cohn | Artist Composer |
| Murat Colak | Artist Composer |
| Dan Coleman | Artist Composer |
| Marc-Antonio Consoli | Artist Composer |
| Robert Convery | Artist Composer |
| Emily Cooley | Artist Composer |
| Lisa Renee Coons | Artist Composer |
| Aaron Copland | Artist Composer |
| Richard Cornell | Artist Composer |
| Gheorghe Costinescu | Artist Composer |
| Stephen Coxe | Artist Composer |
| Paul Creston | Artist Composer |
| David Crumb | Artist Composer |
| Starling Cumberworth | Artist Composer |
| Viet Pham Cuong | Artist Composer |
| Brian Current | Artist Composer |
| Marilyn Currier | Artist Composer |
| Sebastian Currier | Artist Composer |
| Nathan Currier | Artist Composer |
| Greg D’Alessio | Artist Composer |
| Noel George DaCosta | Artist Composer |
| Joseph Dangerfield | Artist Composer |
| Richard Danielpour | Artist Composer |
| Stephen Dankner | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Thomas Davis | Artist Composer |
| Christian De Gré Cárdenas | Artist Composer |
| David Del Tredici | Artist Composer |
| Alberto Garcia Demestres | Artist Composer |
| Paul Des Marais | Artist Composer |
| R. Nathaniel Dett | Artist Composer |
| Rocco Di Pietro | Artist Composer |
| David Diamond | Artist Composer |
| Tamar Diesendruck | Artist Composer |
| Alexander Dmitriev | Artist Composer |
| William Doerrfeld | Artist Composer |
| David Dominique | Artist Composer |
| Sara Doncaster | Artist Composer |
| Richard Donovan | Artist Composer |
| Natalie Draper | Artist Composer |
| Deborah Drattell | Artist Composer |
| Richard Dubugnon | Artist Composer |
| John Duke | Artist Composer |
| Brenton Price Dutton | Artist Composer |
| David Dzubay | Artist Composer |
| Paul Earls | Artist Composer |
| Jay Eddy | Artist Composer |
| Dave Eggar | Artist Composer |
| Aaron Einbond | Artist Composer |
| Jonathan H. Elliott | Artist Composer |
| Herbert Elwell | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Henri Emond | Artist Composer |
| Granville English | Artist Composer |
| Robert Erickson | Artist Composer |
| Alvin Etler | Artist Composer |
| Robert Evett | Artist Composer |
| Scott Eyerly | Artist Composer |
| Peter Fahey | Artist Composer |
| John Fedchock | Artist Composer |
| Joel S. Feigin | Artist Composer |
| Ron Fein | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Felsenfeld | Artist Composer |
| Richard Festinger | Artist Composer |
| Michael Fiday | Artist Composer |
| Avner Finberg | Artist Composer |
| Vivian Fine | Artist Composer |
| Ross Lee Finney | Artist Composer |
| Dante Fiorillo | Artist Composer |
| Marian Fishman | Artist Composer |
| Ellen Fishman-Johnson | Artist Composer |
| Keith Fitch | Artist Composer |
| Tom E. Flaherty | Artist Composer |
| Robert J. Fleisher | Artist Composer |
| Cynthia Folio | Artist Composer |
| Colin M. Franey | Artist Composer |
| Arnold Freed | Artist Composer |
| Isadore Freed | Artist Composer |
| Joshua Fried | Artist Composer, Artist Performance |
| Kenneth Fuchs | Artist Composer |
| Ruby Fulton | Artist Composer |
| Vivian Fung | Artist Composer |
| Charles Fussell | Artist Composer |
| Kenneth Gaburo | Artist Composer |
| Christopher Gainey | Artist Composer |
| Jack Gallagher | Artist Composer |
| Mildred Gardner | Artist Composer |
| Stacy Garrop | Artist Composer |
| Anthony Gatto | Artist Composer |
| Erin Gee | Artist Composer |
| Edwin Gerschefski | Artist Composer |
| Greta Gertler Gold | Artist Composer |
| Laura Gibson | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Godfrey | Artist Composer |
| Gabriel Ian Gould | Artist Composer |
| William Parks Grant | Artist Composer |
| George Green | Artist Composer |
| Ray Green | Artist Composer |
| Derek Gregor | Artist Composer |
| Sean Griffin | Artist Composer |
| Mark Gustavson | Artist Composer |
| Yotam Haber | Artist Composer |
| Daron Aric Hagen | Artist Composer |
| Alexei Haieff | Artist Composer |
| Edmund Haines | Artist Composer |
| Stefan Hakenberg | Artist Composer |
| Jeffrey Hall | Artist Composer |
| Roger Hannay | Artist Composer |
| William Harper | Artist Composer |
| Donald Harris | Artist Composer |
| Matthew Harris | Artist Composer |
| Roy Harris | Artist Composer |
| Michael Harrison | Artist Composer |
| John B Hedges | Artist Composer |
| Alva Henderson | Artist Composer |
| David Hertzberg | Artist Composer |
| Joshua Hey | Artist Composer |
| Rozalie Hirs | Artist Composer |
| Shelley Hirsch | Artist Composer |
| Hubert Ho | Artist Composer |
| Huck Hodge | Artist Composer |
| Joel Hoffman | Artist Composer |
| Denise Mei Yan Hofmann | Artist Composer |
| Lee Hoiby | Artist Composer |
| Jonathan Holland | Artist Composer |
| John Hollenbeck | Artist Composer |
| Stanley Hollingsworth | Artist Composer |
| David Hollister | Artist Composer |
| Mike Holober | Artist Composer |
| James Holt | Artist Composer |
| Wayne Horvitz | Artist Composer |
| Rae Howell | Artist Composer |
| Chia-Yu Hsu | Artist Composer |
| Ching-chu Hu | Artist Composer |
| John Huggler | Artist Composer |
| Melissa Hui | Artist Composer |
| Karel Husa | Artist Composer |
| Leon J. Hyla | Artist Composer |
| Victor Ialeggio | Artist Composer |
| Kamran Ince | Artist Composer |
| Vera Ivanova | Artist Composer |
| Jean Eichelberger Ivey | Artist Composer |
| Toru Iwatake | Artist Composer |
| Donald Jenni | Artist Composer |
| Per-Erik Johansson | Artist Composer |
| Harriett Johnson | Artist Composer |
| Hunter Johnson | Artist Composer |
| David Paul Johnson | Artist Composer |
| Benjamin B. Johnston | Artist Composer |
| Tadeuz Jrecka (Jarecki) | Artist Composer |
| John Kaefer | Artist Composer |
| Gabriel Kahane | Artist Composer |
| Louis Karchin | Artist Composer |
| Ulysses Kay | Artist Composer |
| David Kechley | Artist Composer |
| Bob M. Keefe | Artist Composer |
| Elizabeth Kelly | Artist Composer |
| Sybil Kempson | Artist Composer |
| John B. Kennedy | Artist Composer |
| Martin Kennedy | Artist Composer |
| Aaron Jay Kernis | Artist Composer |
| Ralph Kirkpatrick | Artist Composer |
| Peter Kirn | Artist Composer |
| Jerome Kitzke | Artist Composer |
| Paul Klein | Artist Composer |
| Dorothy Klotzman | Artist Composer |
| Edward Knight | Artist Composer |
| Barbara Kolb | Artist Composer |
| Karl Korte | Artist Composer |
| Michael John Kowalski | Artist Composer |
| William Kraft | Artist Composer |
| Kostis Kritsotakis | Artist Composer |
| Jan Krzywicki | Artist Composer |
| Gail Kubik | Artist Composer |
| Mayako Kubo | Artist Composer |
| Mikel Kuehn | Artist Composer |
| Angel Lam | Artist Composer |
| John Larkin | Artist Composer |
| Philip Lasser | Artist Composer |
| Bo Lawergren | Artist Composer |
| Bruce Lazarus | Artist Composer |
| Patrick Lazour | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Lazour | Artist Composer |
| Anne LeBaron | Artist Composer |
| Thomas Oboe Lee | Artist Composer |
| Andrew McKenna Lee | Artist Composer |
| Eun Young Lee | Artist Composer |
| HyeKyung Lee | Artist Composer |
| John Anthony Lennon | Artist Composer |
| Tania J. Leon | Artist Composer |
| Ray Leslee | Artist Composer |
| Arthur Levering | Artist Composer |
| Lauren Levey | Artist Composer |
| Gerald Levinson | Artist Composer |
| James Lewis | Artist Composer |
| Peter Scott Lewis | Artist Composer |
| Wilbur Lezeman | Artist Composer |
| Panagiotis Liaropoulos | Artist Composer |
| John Liberatore | Artist Composer |
| Glenn Lieberman | Artist Composer |
| Lowell Liebermann | Artist Composer |
| Harris Lindenfeld | Artist Composer |
| Larry Lipkis | Artist Composer |
| David Lipten | Artist Composer |
| Andrew List | Artist Composer |
| David T Little | Artist Composer |
| Ricardo Llorca | Artist Composer |
| Normand Lockwood | Artist Composer |
| Ruth Lomon | Artist Composer |
| Edwin London | Artist Composer |
| Zhou Long | Artist Composer |
| Nicolai Lopatnikoff | Artist Composer |
| Nevada Lozano | Artist Composer |
| David A. Ludwig | Artist Composer |
| Otto Luening | Artist Composer |
| Jing Jing Luo | Artist Composer |
| David Macbride | Artist Composer |
| Payton MacDonald | Artist Composer |
| Evan Mack | Artist Composer |
| Robert Maggio | Artist Composer |
| Shafer Mahoney | Artist Composer |
| Keeril Makan | Artist Composer |
| Ingram Marshall | Artist Composer |
| Eli Marshall | Artist Composer |
| Jorge Martin | Artist Composer |
| Burle Marx | Artist Composer |
| Julius Masri | Artist Composer |
| James Matheson | Artist Composer |
| Paula Matthusen | Artist Composer |
| Andrew May | Artist Composer |
| Missy Mazzoli | Artist Composer |
| Robert G. McBride | Artist Composer |
| A.J. McCaffrey | Artist Composer |
| Robin McClellan | Artist Composer |
| Brian McCorkle | Artist Composer |
| Colin McPhee | Artist Composer |
| Andrew McWain | Artist Composer |
| Joyce Mekeel | Artist Composer |
| Sotiris Melissis | Artist Composer |
| Harold Meltzer | Artist Composer |
| Gregory Mertl, Ph.D. | Artist Composer |
| Ellsworth Milburn | Artist Composer |
| Philip Miller | Artist Composer |
| Benjamin Milstein | Artist Composer |
| Eric Moe | Artist Composer |
| Robert W. Moevs | Artist Composer |
| Henry Mollicone | Artist Composer |
| Kate Moore | Artist Composer |
| Paul Moravec | Artist Composer |
| Berenice R. Morris | Artist Composer |
| Raphael Mostel | Artist Composer |
| Jorge Muniz | Artist Composer |
| M. Giuli Murphy | Artist Composer |
| Charles Naginski | Artist Composer |
| Akemi Naito | Artist Composer |
| Koji Nakano | Artist Composer |
| Paul Nash | Artist Composer |
| Fernanda Navarro | Artist Composer |
| Richard Nelson | Artist Composer |
| Andrew Neumann | Artist Composer |
| Dika Newlin | Artist Composer |
| Tim Newman | Artist Composer |
| William Newman | Artist Composer |
| Ailis Ni Riain | Artist Composer |
| Andrew Norman | Artist Composer |
| Tarik O’Regan | Artist Composer |
| Kilsung Oak | Artist Composer |
| Seung-Won Oh | Artist Composer |
| Arcangel Castillo Olivari | Artist Composer |
| Rene Orth | Artist Composer |
| Willson Osborne | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Palkowski | Artist Composer |
| Carter Pann | Artist Composer |
| Muriel Parker | Artist Composer |
| Robert Parris | Artist Composer |
| Robert Paterson | Artist Composer |
| John M. Peel | Artist Composer |
| Stephen V. Peles | Artist Composer |
| Jack Perla | Artist Composer |
| George Perle | Artist Composer |
| Rachel Peters | Artist Composer |
| Burrill Phillips | Artist Composer |
| Peter Phillips | Artist Composer |
| Kala Pierson | Artist Composer |
| Russell Platt | Artist Composer |
| Theo Popov | Artist Composer |
| Charles Porter | Artist Composer |
| Quincy Porter | Artist Composer |
| David Rakowski | Artist Composer |
| Paul Ramsier | Artist Composer |
| Behzad Ranjbaran | Artist Composer |
| Karol Rathaus | Artist Composer |
| David Reck | Artist Composer |
| Catherine Reid | Artist Composer |
| Jay Reise | Artist Composer |
| Ronnie Reshef | Artist Composer |
| Wallingford Riegger | Artist Composer |
| John Rinehart | Artist Composer |
| Peter Robles | Artist Composer |
| Jody Rockmaker | Artist Composer |
| Bernard Rogers | Artist Composer |
| Rodney W. Rogers | Artist Composer |
| Chris Rogerson | Artist Composer |
| Kurt E. Rohde | Artist Composer |
| Neil Rolnick | Artist Composer |
| Lucia Ronchetti | Artist Composer |
| Ned Rorem | Artist Composer |
| Michael Rose | Artist Composer |
| Mathew Rosenblum | Artist Composer |
| Michael P. Ross | Artist Composer |
| John C. Ross | Artist Composer |
| Michael Rothkopf | Artist Composer |
| Nicolas Roussakis | Artist Composer |
| Dane Rudhyar | Artist Composer |
| Andrew Rudin | Artist Composer |
| Elena Ruehr | Artist Composer |
| Michael Ruszczynski | Artist Composer |
| Steven C. Sacco | Artist Composer |
| Kathryn Salfelder | Artist Composer |
| Steven P. Sametz | Artist Composer |
| David Sampson | Artist Composer |
| Laurie A. San Martin | Artist Composer |
| Eleonor Sandresky | Artist Composer |
| Marc Satterwhite | Artist Composer |
| J. Mark Scearce | Artist Composer |
| Carl Schimmel | Artist Composer |
| Ruth Schonthal | Artist Composer |
| Matt Schreibeis | Artist Composer |
| Elliott Schwartz | Artist Composer |
| Laura Elise Schwendinger | Artist Composer |
| Douglas A. Scott | Artist Composer |
| Peter Sculthorpe | Artist Composer |
| Michael Seltenreich | Artist Composer |
| Daria Semegen | Artist Composer |
| Rudy Shackelford | Artist Composer |
| Harold S. Shapero | Artist Composer |
| Yevgeniy Sharlat | Artist Composer |
| Allen Shawn | Artist Composer |
| Jonathan Sheffer | Artist Composer |
| Yiwen Shen | Artist Composer |
| Nathan Shields | Artist Composer |
| Chatori Shimizu | Artist Composer |
| Jennifer Lay Shyu | Artist Composer |
| Ann L. Silsbee | Artist Composer |
| Faye-Ellen Silverman | Artist Composer |
| Adam Benjamin Silverman | Artist Composer |
| Alvin Singleton | Artist Composer |
| Allan B. Sly | Artist Composer |
| Edward Smaldone | Artist Composer |
| Russell Smith | Artist Composer |
| David Snow | Artist Composer |
| Steven Snowden | Artist Composer |
| Gustave Soderlund | Artist Composer |
| Tony Solitro | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Sonenberg | Artist Composer |
| Manuel Sosa | Artist Composer |
| D. J. Sparr | Artist Composer |
| Gregory Spears | Artist Composer |
| Asha Srinivasan | Artist Composer |
| Robert Starer | Artist Composer |
| Rand P. Steiger | Artist Composer |
| Robert L. Stern | Artist Composer |
| Patrick Stoyanovich | Artist Composer |
| Richard Alan Strawser | Artist Composer |
| Steven Strunk | Artist Composer |
| Steven Stucky | Artist Composer |
| Elizabeth Z. Sullivan | Artist Composer |
| Kotoka Suzuki | Artist Composer |
| Elizabeth Swados | Artist Composer |
| Jan Swafford | Artist Composer |
| Howard Swanson | Artist Composer |
| Steven Takasugi | Artist Composer |
| Louise Talma | Artist Composer |
| Jeff Talman | Artist Composer, Artist Performance |
| Su Lian Tan | Artist Composer |
| Jordan Tang | Artist Composer |
| Shaina Taub | Artist Composer |
| Michael Tilson Thomas | Artist Composer |
| Virgil Thomson | Artist Composer |
| John Thow | Artist Composer |
| Frank Ticheli | Artist Composer |
| Ernst Toch | Artist Composer |
| Ushio Torikai | Artist Composer |
| Michael Torke | Artist Composer |
| Ryan Tracy | Artist Composer |
| Lester Trimble | Artist Composer |
| George Tsontakis | Artist Composer |
| Chinary Ung | Artist Composer |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky | Artist Composer |
| Nanine Valen | Artist Composer |
| Nancy Van de Vate | Artist Composer |
| Peter Van Zandt Lane | Artist Composer |
| Yiorgos Vassilandonakis | Artist Composer |
| Fay Victor | Artist Composer |
| Dan Visconti | Artist Composer |
| Andrew Waggoner | Artist Composer |
| George Walker | Artist Composer |
| Gwyneth V. Walker | Artist Composer |
| Stewart Wallace | Artist Composer |
| Joelle Wallach | Artist Composer |
| Lu Wang | Artist Composer |
| Dalit Hadass Warshaw | Artist Composer |
| John Watts | Artist Composer |
| Ben Weber | Artist Composer |
| Mark Lanz Weiser | Artist Composer |
| Christopher Weiss | Artist Composer |
| Dan Welcher | Artist Composer |
| Chou Wen-chung | Artist Composer |
| Scott Wheeler | Artist Composer |
| Leighton Jonah White | Artist Composer |
| Liza Jane White | Artist Composer |
| Thomas Whitman | Artist Composer |
| Beth Wiemann | Artist Composer |
| A. Gordon Wilcox | Artist Composer |
| Stephen Wilcox | Artist Composer |
| James H. Willey | Artist Composer |
| Dana Wilson | Artist Composer |
| Richard Wilson | Artist Composer |
| Daniel Wohl | Artist Composer |
| Amnon Wolman | Artist Composer |
| Stefan Wolpe | Artist Composer |
| Theresa Wong | Artist Composer |
| Gregg Wramage | Artist Composer |
| Maurice Willis Wright | Artist Composer |
| Yong Yang | Artist Composer |
| Carolyn Yarnell | Artist Composer |
| Robert Yekovich | Artist Composer |
| Chen Yi | Artist Composer |
| Stephen Yip | Artist Composer |
| Walter Wynn York | Artist Composer |
| Miriama Young | Artist Composer |
| Du Yun | Artist Composer |
| Earl Zindars | Artist Composer |
| Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon | Artist Composer |
| Christopher Zuar | Artist Composer |
| Judith C. Lane | Artist Composer, Artist Writer |
| Carol Lipnik | Artist Composer, Artist Performance |
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