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 Forum
History Overview
The Composer's Forum began in the Fall of 1994 as
a place for composers to share ideas. Today, it
is a vibrant environment where composition students
and faculty collaborate, formulate, exchange, and
discuss issues concerning the craft of composition,
career development, technology, and art. The Forum
is an vital teaching component of the composition
program.
Over the years, the Forum has hosted several world-famous
composers and performers, including Steve Reich,
Philip Glass, Sofia Gubiadulina, Lou Harrison, Morton
Subotnick, Trevor Wishart, James Tenny, the Logos
Duo, and Pulitzer award-winners Mario Davidovsky
and George Crumb.
The Forum is also an organization that showcases
student composers' achievements, including student
composers who have achieved prominence on the national
and international level, either through performances
at conferences and festivals or through the attainment
of awards; the bi-annual Student Composer's Concert;
and the annual Eva Thompson Memorial Award, given
to the outstanding undergraduate and graduate composition
student.
The
Composers Connection
In addition, each semester, the Forum hosts The Composers Connection,
a collaborative project with the San José Chamber Orchestra,
directed by Barbara Day Turner. Students have works played, critiqued,
and recorded by a six-member ensemble from the orchestra. Guest composers
with the orchestra are scheduled on a regular basis to give lectures
and participate in exchanges with composition students and faculty
(View an Image Slide Show of the Composers Connection).
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