Discipline: Music Composition

Jonathan Pieslak

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003

While at MacDowell, Jonathan Pieslak began work on a commission for the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra (Plainfield, NJ). The work was commissioned through the Jerome Foundation and the American Composers Forum, and would be premiered during the 2004-2005 season.

Studios

Veltin

Jonathan Pieslak 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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