Discipline: Music Composition

Jorge Grossmann

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Ithaca, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2006, 2013

Jorge Grossmann worked on his second piano concerto and on a piece for chamber ensemble that includes Peruvian pre-Columbian instruments. A winner of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Bogliasco Foundation, and Copland House, he teaches music composition at Ithaca College.

Studios

MacDowell

Jorge Grossmann worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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