Composition and Music Theory

Composition students are highly prepared for both graduate study and real-world careers. Through our program’s unique long-term “creative incubator” process, students create music for Cali School ensembles and world class Immersive Artist Residency performers, showcase outstanding work at external venues in New York City like National Sawdust and Merkin Hall, and score for media collaborations with artists in other disciplines from both Montclair State University and the professional community. Recent alumni have gone immediately into professional work for music production companies, recording studios, music publishers, touring ensembles, and teaching at community music schools, as well advanced studies in places like PhD programs at Columbia University and the Peabody Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music’s jazz composition program, and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in film scoring and musical theatre writing.