Discipline: Music Composition

Lansing McLoskey

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Miami, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011, 2015

Composer Lansing McLoskey worked on three commissions: a choral work for The Crossing, a work for oboist ToniMarie Marchioni and a concert-length oratorio on texts by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. He has been described as "a major talent and a deep thinker with a great ear" by the American Composers Orchestra, "an engaging, gifted composer writing smart, compelling and fascinating music" by Gramophone Magazine and "a distinctive voice in American music" by the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

Studios

Monday Music

Lansing McLoskey worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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