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
February 1, 2025
2025 CULTIVATE Fellows Named!
6 Fellows chosen from over 200 applicants in 36 states and 4 countries
November 23, 2024
Caples Jefferson Architects Chosen!
Read all about the outstanding architectural firm selected to plan and guide our transformational expansion: .
September 21, 2024
ANNOUNCING OUR 2024 RESIDENCIES
Learn about our 2024 Residents!
March 4, 2024
COPLAND HOUSE ANNOUNCES MAJOR EXPANSION
Copland House purchases a 24-acre school campus on the New York-Connecticut border, heralding a transformational programmatic and institutional expansion.
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COPLAND HOUSE AT BLUESTONE:
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Now at Copland House
Ushering in the spring weather here at Copland House is Wisconsin-based composer BRENT MICHAEL DAVIDS (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape). Brent has been hailed over five decades as a warrior for native equity, parity, and Indigenous music. A citizen of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, he is co-director of Manhattan’s Lenape Center. He created and co-founded Arizona’s renowned Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP), championing Indigenous youth in composing written music. He also designs instruments and pens performable notations that are themselves visual works of art. Leading ensembles have premiered his works throughout Europe and the Far East, as well as the U.S., including Carnegie and Disney Halls, Tanglewood, the Rothko Chapel, Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, and Kennedy Center. He was also featured at a concert he co-curated at the 2022 Venice Biennale Musica, which also included a specially-commissioned work of his. The National Endowment for the Arts named him among America’s most celebrated choral composers in its American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius project, and he was also honored with the Indian Summer Music Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. A graduate of Northern Illinois University and Arizona State University – both of which conferred upon him their Distinguished Alumni Awards – he also trained at the Sundance Institute. He, himself, is indigenous to the area of his Copland House Residency, during which he will continue working on his epic project Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People, which gives voice to country’s Indigenous populations.
Next Events
Sunday, May 4 at 3:00pm
BETTER ANGELS: A WEST POINT COLLABORATION
Copland House at Bluestone Farm, Brewster, NY
Tuesday, May 6 at 6:30pm
BETTER ANGELS: A WEST POINT COLLABORATION
Elebash Hall, The CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Sunday, May 18 at 4:00 PM
Late Night with Leonard Bernstein
Parlance Chamber Concerts, West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ