Mission Statement

COPLAND HOUSE is dedicated to nurturing and renewing America’s musical heritage, and to fostering greater public awareness and appreciation of our nation’s composers and their work. Building upon Aaron Copland’s seminal artistic and personal legacies, we further this mission through composer residencies; live, broadcast, and recorded performances; and educational and community outreach programs.

Latest News

December 21, 2012

CULTIVATE 2013 ANNOUNCED

Applications are now being accepted for Copland House’s acclaimed new CULTIVATE program (Derek Bermel, Director), an intensive, all-scholarship creative workshop and mentoring program for emerging composers.

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October 23, 2012

2012 Copland House Residency Awards Announced

Eight composers from five states have been selected for coveted, all-expenses-paid residencies during the 2012-13 season at Aaron Copland’s National Historic Landmark house in New York’s lower Hudson Valley.

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June 21, 2012

New CH Website Launches

Welcome to Copland House’s new website…with resident spotlights and audio samples, enhanced concert ticket-purchasing capabilities, regularly-changing audio and video features, added info on educational programs, and much more.

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June 15, 2012

CH Announces 2012-13 Merestead Season

Spirituals, the sounds of Broadway, appearances by two Pulitzer Prize-winners, works by five Copland House residents, and music inspired by Dickinson, Whitman, and Shakespeare highlight CH’s new season.

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June 15, 2012

CH Launches Cultivate, with Bermel as Director

CH inaugurates an intensive, annual, all-scholarship creative workshop and mentoring program for gifted emerging composers this summer, to be directed by Derek Bermel.

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Featured Media

CULTIVATE

CULTIVATE 2012 Fellows gather at Copland House.

Click HERE for short video.

Sebastian Currier

“Ethereal” from Static for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano
I. Static, Mvt 2
(2007 Grawemeyer Award; commissioned by Copland House) performed by Music from Copland House
on Koch International Classics 77691

Now at Copland House

Joelle Wallach is in residence from May 13 thru June 3. She composes orchestral, chamber, chorusal, and vocal works. She wrote an octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the New York Philharmonic Ensembles, and the New York Choral Society commissioned her secular oratorio, Toward a Time of Renewal, for 200 voices and orchestra to commemorate its 35th Anniversary Season in Carnegie Hall. A pre-concert lecturer for the New York Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony, she speaks on a broad range of musical subjects, bringing fresh insights to familiar works and opening doors to modern ones and to those more infrequently heard. She grew up in Morocco, but makes her home in New York City, where she was born and to which she has just returned after a two-year visit as Professor of Composition at the University of North Texas College of Music.

Listen to two songs from The Nightwatch: Assurance and The Nightwatch

Next Events

Sunday, June 2 at 3 PM

"I Hear America Singing": The World of Walt Whitman

Featuring From Noon to Starry Night by Russell Platt (CH Resident '06), plus works by Leonard Bernstein, Ned Rorem, and Tom Cipullo (CH Resident '06) on Whitman texts, with the Mirror Visions ensemble (soprano Vira Slywotzky, tenor Scott Murphree, and baritone Jesse Blumberg) and pianist Alan Darling.

Copland House at Merestead
Mt. Kisco, NY

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Sunday, June 9 at 3 PM

CULTIVATE 2013

Tomorrow’s masters today! World Premieres of six works specially composed by CULTIVATE Fellows for Copland House’s acclaimed new emerging composers institute. Includes audience Q&A and meet-the artists reception.

Copland House at Merestead
Mt. Kisco, NY

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Sunday, July 14 at 3 PM

Musical Fireworks: Celebrating Bastille Day

Berets off in honor of France’s answer to the 4th of July, when Music from Copland House offers a delectable buffet of works by Copland, Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud, and Stravinsky.

Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY

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All Copland House programs depend on the annual tax-deductible contributions of individual, institutional, and corporate supporters around the country and the world. Become one of our Friends of Copland House. Donations at all levels are welcome, and we hope you will give as generously as you can.

Come to an Event

Concert/ Saturday, May 4 at 8 PM

"I Hear America Singing"

From Noon to Starry Night by Platt (CH Resident '06) plus works by Cipullo (CH Resident '06), Rorem, and Bernstein.
Copland House at Merestead

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Copland: Through 1942

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Copland: Through 1942

This American classic includes Copland's first-person recollections, Vivian Perlis' vivid commentary, and ...