Music Faculty and Academic Staff

Peter Child (child@mit.edu), Professor of Music, MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Ph.D., Composition, Brandeis University. Peter Child is Meet the Composer-American Symphony Orchestra League “Music Alive” composer-in-residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, 2005-08. He was born in England in 1953 and has lived in the US since enrolling at Reed College through a junior-year exchange program. Child’s composition teachers include William Albright, Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, Jacob Druckman and Seymour Shifrin. His work has earned awards and commissions from Music of Changes, the Fromm Foundation, the Harvard Musical Association, Tanglewood, WGBH Radio, East and West Artists, the New England Conservatory, League/ISCM, and the MIT Council for the Arts, as well as two Composition Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. He has received fellowships from the Watson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony and the Composers’ Conference, and four ‘New Works’ commissions from the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities. His music has been recorded on New World, Lorelt (UK), CRI, Neuma, Centaur, and Rivoalto (Italy) labels. "WHY COMPOSE?: MUSIC, THE ARTS AND EDUCATION AT MIT" was an address to the Music and Theater Arts Visiting Committe in 2003. Access the article, with musical examples, *HERE*

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