Celebrating the works of American composers Robert Cogan & Pozzi escot
BIOGRAPHIES
ROBERT COGAN
ROBERT COGAN
ROBERT COGAN
Robert Cogan, was the former Chair of Graduate Theoretical Studies and Professor of Composition at New England Conservatory, has also been Visiting Professor at the Berkshire Music Center, IBM Research, SUNY College at Purchase, and at the leading conservatories in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Author of the prize-winning book New Images
Robert Cogan, was the former Chair of Graduate Theoretical Studies and Professor of Composition at New England Conservatory, has also been Visiting Professor at the Berkshire Music Center, IBM Research, SUNY College at Purchase, and at the leading conservatories in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Author of the prize-winning book New Images of Musical Sound (Harvard University Press), his compositions have been programmed, performed and recorded throughout the world (the Avignon, Gubbio, Montanea, and Tanglewood Festivals; the Cleveland, RIAS Berlin, and Berkshire Music Center Orchestras). "Raw power, very personal and original," New York Times; "thrilling musical and philosophical drama," Moscow Journal of Musical Life.
POZZI ESCOT
ROBERT COGAN
ROBERT COGAN
Pozzi Escot was a Professor of Composition and Graduate Theoretical Studies at New England Conservatory of Music. Virgil Thomson has said, "I esteem her as the most interesting and original woman composer now functioning." Her works have received important performances in London, Munich, Belgrade, Madrid, Hamburg, Paris, Tokyo, China,
Pozzi Escot was a Professor of Composition and Graduate Theoretical Studies at New England Conservatory of Music. Virgil Thomson has said, "I esteem her as the most interesting and original woman composer now functioning." Her works have received important performances in London, Munich, Belgrade, Madrid, Hamburg, Paris, Tokyo, China, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, New York... She has lectured throughout Europe, Asia, and America; served as Editor-in-Chief of Sonus, a global music journal; and also served as President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies. As a composer she has received many commissions and awards, her works being recorded on the Delos, Leo, Music and Arts, Neuma, Centaur, Spectrum labels. In 1975 she was named an Outstanding Educator in America and in 1999 was selected Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.