Access to 9 Recording Studios

The Studio Composition program combines artistic exploration with hands-on studio experience, giving students access to nine recording facilities to compose, arrange, and produce work across an array of genres and media.

The Program

Studio composition at Purchase features a stellar faculty and graduate program, a finely-tuned curriculum, close associations with both a renowned classical conservatory and a vibrant Jazz studies program, and a superior professional career location.

It also functions closely with studio production, and collaborative accomplishment between these two programs is typical in classes, concerts, and recording sessions.

But the best aspect is what the students themselves have made of it—a friendly, artistic community whose excellent tradition produces hundreds of new musical compositions every year.

Students can also choose to minor in Classical Composition.

What Sets Us Apart?

Besides the amazingly collaborative and supportive community of musicians, it’s the…

  • hands-on studio experience
  • thorough training in conventional and unconventional music
  • small-group study with professional writers
  • a working community of artistic peers
  • a tradition of success among our alumni

Original Work

To graduate, all studio composers write and produce two significant original projects (undergraduate) or two master’s recitals (graduate). These can be either recorded, reviewed in score form, or performed live.

Many feature multimedia collaboration with the other arts conservatories at Purchase College. Other recitals can occur at New York City clubs and concert venues, and in professional recording studios.

Listen In

Take a listen to this Spotify playlist of compositions featuring alumni and current students of the Music and Technology Department, curated by Rebecca Haviland, co-head of the Undergraduate Studio Composition Department.

Studio Comp on Spotify