Programs

ll Copland House programs are intended to foster an enhanced awareness and appreciation of America’s vibrant musical heritage.

Aaron Copland Awards

Short-term, all-expenses-paid residencies at Copland House for gifted, emerging or mid-career American composers (native-born or permanent residents). Click here for more information.

Sylvia Goldstein Awards

Supports the performance, recording, or publication of one outstanding work each year, written at least in part at Copland House by an Aaron Copland Award resident composer. Click here for more information.

Music From Copland House

The House’s acclaimed touring, resident chamber ensemble is engaged in a variety of concert, recording, educational, and community outreach activities. Click here for more information.

Educational Activities

Copland House presents programs like Start the Music (informal, interactive performances) and Speaking Musically (in-school composer visits) for young people, to introduce them to American music and its richly diverse world of sounds and ideas, and to excite them about musical composition and the creative process. Copland House also organizes such related activities for students and adults as exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, and workshops, often in collaboration with other educational and community entities.

Public Programs

Copland House offers a growing array of events that focus on musical creativity, including The Composer’s Hour, a performance and discussion series featuring America’s leading composers exploring the creative process, HouseWorks, showcasing works composed at Copland House MusicTalks, presenting prominent individuals in and out of the music world discussing their musical passions.

Informational Services

Copland House publishes a newsletter (Letter from Home) and maintains this internet web site (http://www.coplandhouse.org) and its monthly e-digest, which provide information about Copland, Copland House, American music composition, scholarship and performance, and other items of related interest.