Discipline: Music Composition

Roman Yakub

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Amherst, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2000
More: www.yakubmusic.com
Roman Yakub is a composer who received his early musical training in Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1982 with a diploma in music composition. In 1991, he moved to the U.S., where he earned a master's degree in music composition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a doctor of musical arts degree in composition at Boston University. In 2006, he won First Prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition for Wynken, Blynken, and Nod. In 1997, Yakub became a runner-up in the ALEA III International Composition Competition. In 2003, he received a National Telly Award for the music to the TV commercial promoting a new concert venue for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He was also a recipient of the ASCAP annual Composer Award (2002-2010).

Studios

MacDowell

Roman Yakub 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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