Programs

Coursework in the program is tailored to the needs of the contemporary performer including courses in electronic music for performers, entrepreneurship, and studio classes discussing relevant topics in modern pedagogy among many other offerings.

This new and innovative degree program features a small, personal class size, and the intense level of collaboration and discussion among the students provides a fertile environment for experimentation and the creation of new projects

CPP students form the core of the School’s resident contemporary ensemble, Tactus, playing a large variety of works written in the last 100 years. During its inaugural season, CPP students were featured in a performance by Tactus at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Performances in some of New York’s new music clubs are also a regular part of the schedule.

Reviews of Tactus performances

“Ambitious . . . finely polished . . . spirited”
—Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

“The deepest, grandest noise of the musical season so far”
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker

“Most school concerts don’t generate the sort of buzz that this one did.”
—Adam Baer, The New York Sun

Andy Akiho (composer, percussion)
Vicky Chow (piano)
Joshua Modney (violin)

Ensembles

Tak (Laura Cocks, flute; Liam Kinson, clarinet; Charlotte Mundy, voice; Marina Kifferstein, violin; Ellery Trafford, percussion)

Loadbang (Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet; Andy Kozar, trumpet; Jeffrey Gavett, voice; William Lang, trombone)

Mivos Quartet (Olivia De Prato, violin; Victor Lowrie, viola; Mariel Roberts, cello)