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
June 4, 2022
CULTIVATED SPACES 2.0 TO LAUNCH
6-program virtual series returns to premiere new works from CULTIVATE 2021.
March 5, 2022
CULTIVATE 2022 Fellows Announced
6 composers from 5 states have been chosen from over 180 applicants for CULTIVATE’s 10th Anniversary.
January 22, 2022
MCH LAUNCHES EMELIN RESIDENCY
In an exhilarating collaboration beginning this spring, MCH will showcase more than 100 years of American musical creativity and innovation in an eclectic 3-concert series at the Emelin Theatre in nearby Mamaroneck, NY.
November 20, 2021
2021 Residencies Announced
9 composers from 7 states and Puerto Rico have been selected from our largest annual applicant pool ever for CH’s 2021 Residency Awards.
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Copland House Virtual Tour
While we may not be able to welcome you in person, we hope everyone can visit Copland House virtually with this video tour guided by our Artistic and Executive Director, Michael Boriskin.
Now at Copland House
Among veteran composer Claude Baker’s many honors are an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards; the Manuel de Falla Prize from the Government of Spain; the Pogorzelski-Yankee Prize from the American Guild of Organists; the Eastman-Leonard and George Eastman Prizes; awards from ASCAP, BMI, and the League of Composers/ISCM; commissions from the Koussevitzky and Fromm Music Foundations, Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, and Meet the Composer (now NewMusicUSA); a residency at the American Academy in Rome; and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Bogliasco Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts, and the state arts councils of Indiana, Kentucky, and New York. Suring his eight-year tenure as Composer-in-Residence of the St. Louis Symphony, he initiated numerous community-based projects, most notably the establishment of composition programs at multiple grade levels in the St. Louis Public Schools. He is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Composition at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
Next Events
Thursday, October 20, at 7 PM
Stop at the Sound: New Music at New Roc
Auditorium of the New Rochelle Library, New Rochelle, NY
Opening Night of the 2022 New Rochelle ArtsFest! This joyous program celebrates some of the city's award-winning composers, including Joan Tower, Derek Bermel, and Alan Mencken, offers music about it by George M. Cohan and George Gershwin, and features the World Premiere of a newly-commissioned musical portrait of New Rochelle by Steven Snowden.
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