Advance your music writing skills as you work with filmmakers, video game and virtual reality creators, choreographers, and writers and directors of theatre and music theatre productions. You will collaborate with a wide range of music performance students and work with students and faculty from our Music Technology program in our state-of-the-art recording and production facilities.
Bachelor of Music
Music Theory and Composition: Concert Music
Study music theory, keyboard skills, orchestration, music technology and more, and work closely with our faculty of internationally recognized composers.
Master of Music
Music Theory and Composition: Concert Music
Become actively involved in the performance of your work, collaborating with musicians and artists at NYU and throughout New York City.
Doctor of Philosophy
Music Performance and Composition: Composers
Create a highly personalized program exploring the aesthetic foundations and psychology of music and the arts, and perform qualitative research.
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News
Ring in the New
NYU Steinhardt Piano Performance majors premiere seven new works written for them by Concert Composition students.
Composition Alum is Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Music
Alex Weiser was one of the two finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Music Composition Alum Angélica Negrón Featured in BBC Roundtable
She joined a panel of Hollywood luminaries discussing their starts in music and "the difficulty of creating something simple."
Message from the MPAP Chair on Racism and Black Lives Matter
"It is time for us to take responsibility and to take concrete steps to make MPAP an academic performance community where diversity and inclusion are indispensable and at the core of our teaching, training, and learning."
Julia Wolfe's "Fire in my mouth"
The tragic events of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which killed 146 garment workers, most of them young, female immigrants, is the subject of Music Composition Artistic Director Julia Wolfe’s newest work, Fire in my mouth.
Meet Superstar Composer, Alum Joe Iconis
Be More Chill, the story of an unpopular kid in suburban New Jersey, began its life as a young adult novel. It has now made its way to Broadway, and alum Joe Iconis has been nominated for a 2019 Tony Award for Best Original Score.