Composition Pedagogy

Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning

Our roadmap for this is pretty simple. We're going to talk a little bit about the state of things. So just think, how was composition taught now? How has it been taught for a while? And sort of, what's the current status quo? And then, of course, you're going to talk about the challenges of things. So sort of, what, what works there, what doesn't, and really just sort of, what do we want to push our students to do, and even ourselves to do? Because we're never just static. We're always learning. We're always evolving and always changing and always revising past compositions and exactly things like that, just not the night of the premiere. And then, of course, what composers ought to know. So this is not just the contextual knowledge and the factual knowledge. This is also the things like, how do we go out into the world as a composer? Because a lot of times our students graduate and, well, they're just kind of dropped out the door and they're told, This is it? Your professional composer now have fun, I'll mention that an opinionated look on what composers should be doing and how to build that into their training as we train them, instead of patching on at the very end.