Discipline: Music Composition

Peter Susser

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990
Peter Susser is a composer who has been commissioned by a variety of orchestras, ensembles, and soloists including the Queen’s Chamber Band, the Sage City and New Amsterdam Symphonies, and Speculum Musicae. He is on the faculties of Columbia University and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). He received his doctorate in music in composition from Columbia University and holds a master’s degree in cello performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where he won the Pablo Casals Prize and the Ravel Competition. His music is available on Albany and Capstone Records.

Studios

MacDowell

Peter Susser 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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