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
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.
March 6, 2021
CH & I CARE IF YOU LISTEN launch “CULTIVATED SPACES”
6-program virtual series features CULTIVATE 2020 premieres.
February 13, 2021
CULTIVATE 2021 Fellows Named
6 composers have been selected from 150 applicants in 32 states and 4 countries for CULTIVATE’s 10th round.
November 7, 2020
2020 Copland House Residency Awards Announced
Five outstanding composers from four states have received our 2020 Residency Awards, a year curtailed by the COVID pandemic.
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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
Now in residence through early February, 2004 and 2021 residency awardee Eric Chasalow is a composer, sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, teacher, and non-profit advisor. Well-known for works that combine instruments with electronic sound, he has collaborated on a wide range of projects for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Talea Ensemble, New York New Music Ensemble, Network for New Music, and many others. An album of ten new genre-bending songs, Ghosts of Our Former Selves, was released in Fall 2020. Upcoming projects include a violin concerto for Miranda Cuckson and a song cycle on found poetry related to climate change. In addition to residencies at Copland House, Camargo, the MacDowell Colony, and Bogliasco, he has been honored by the Guggenheim, Fromm, and Koussevitzky Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and Copland House’s Sylvia Goldsetin Award. The Eric Chasalow Collection in the Library of Congress was established in 2009. He was a longtime professor of music at Brandeis University, where he directed the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS).
Next Events
Monday, March 7, 2022
Copland House: UNDERSCORED - Virtual Event
Presented by Music from Copland House and co-produced with The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, this 45-minute virtual program includes a complete performance by MCH of one important American work, past or present, followed by a live Q&A with composer, artists, and viewers.
Programs and other details coming soon
Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 4 PM
Sounds of Westchester
Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck, NY
Music from Copland House’s eclectic, entertaining program journeys across 100 years of music by Westchester natives or transplants, ranging widely from Gilded Age Romanticism to mid-century Modernist and neo-Stravinskian romps, and embracing the sounds of vibrant folk songs, British fifes, and languid ballads. The concert features a trio of Pulitzer Prize winners (Aaron Copland, Joan Tower, and Samuel Barber), Old and New World masters (Charles Tomlinson Griffes and Pierre Jalbert) and one genuine, undefinable maverick (Percy Grainger). You won’t “hear” Westchester again in the quite same way again!.
Tickets and more information
Monday, April 4, 2022
Copland House: UNDERSCORED - Virtual Event
Presented by Music from Copland House and co-produced with The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, this 45-minute virtual program includes a complete performance by MCH of one important American work, past or present, followed by a live Q&A with composer, artists, and viewers.
Programs and other details coming soon