Discipline: Music Composition

Jeffery Briggs

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
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Jeffery L. Briggs holds a doctorate in musical composition and theory from the University of Illinois, master in music from Memphis University and a bachelor’s degree in composition and theory from the Eastman School of Music. Briggs' composition teachers included Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner, Donald Freund, and John Melby. Jeff was awarded the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky and Louis Lane Prizes for Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music, the Haimsohm Prize for Musical Composition at the University of Memphis, an ASCAP Award, and a MacDowell Fellowship. Briggs has had a dual career writing music for acoustic instruments and computer games with more than 50 published titles including the original theme music for the video game Civilization.

Studios

Veltin

Jeffery Briggs worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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