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 3, 2013

CULTIVATE 2013 FELLOWS ANNOUNCED

Copland House has announced the Fellows for its CULTIVATE 2013 emerging composers’ institute.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CULTIVATE

Click HERE for webisode #1 on CULTIVATE 2013.

Click HERE for webisode #2 on CULTIVATE 2013.

Click HERE for short video on CULTIVATE 2012.

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

Gregory Spears will be complete a Copland House Residency from June 13 to July 18. He writes instrumental and vocal music that blends stylistic aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music. His music has been performed by Houston Grand Opera, American Composers Orchestra, American Opera Projects, Center City Opera Theater, NOW Ensemble, So Percussion, and eighth blackbird. He was recently commissioned to write two songs for the New York Public Library’s 2011 Rolex Arts Weekend, and a work for the JACK Quartet based on his experience as composer-in-residence at New Jersey’s Buttonwood Psychiatric Unit. Other commissions include those from OPERA America, Present Music, choreographer Christopher Williams, and Houston Grand Opera. New Amsterdam Records released his early music-inspired, chamber Requiem to critical acclaim in 2011. He has won multiple prizes from both BMI and ASCAP, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Composers Forum, and Fulbright Foundation. He holds degrees from The Eastman School of Music, Yale School of Music, and Princeton University, and has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

Listen to Postlude from Requiem.

Next Events

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

A Cut Above: A Culinary and Musical Gala Celebrating Copland House's 15th Anniversary

Porter House Restaurant, with renowned Chef Michael Lomonaco
Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, NYC