Karel Husa Visiting Professors of Composition
The Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition is a position awarded annually to a major figure in music composition today. The Visiting Professors come to the Ithaca College campus multiple times during the course of the academic year, to lecture on their music and issues relevant to contemporary composition. In addition, during their time on campus, they hold private lessons with the School of Music's composition majors. Over the year of their professorship, their music is performed and examined by Ithaca College School of Music faculty and students.
Below is a list of the the present and past Karel Husa Visiting Professors of Composition. To see the Library's collection of music and materials by and about the current visiting composer, follow the link below. To see the Library's collection of music by past composers, please search our library catalog (for best results, search by composer's name sorted by title).
| 2015 - 2016 | Steven Stucky |
| 2014 - 2015 | Michael Gandolfi |
| 2013 - 2014 | Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon & Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez |
| 2012 - 2013 | David Rakowski |
| 2011 - 2012 | Melinda Wagner |
| 2010 - 2011 | Steven Mackey (October 2010) |
| 2009 - 2010 | Sebastian Currier (October 2009) |
| 2008 - 2009 | William Bolcom (October 2008) Sydney Hodkinson (March 2009) |
| 2007 - 2008 | Joan Tower (February 2008) George Tsontakis (March 2008) |
| 2006 - 2007 | Jennifer Higdon Karel Husa (October 2007) |
| 2005 - 2006 | Michael Colgrass |
| 2004 - 2005 | Stephen Hartke |
| 2003 - 2004 | Robert Beaser |
| 2002 - 2003 | Chen Yi |
| 2001 - 2002 | Karel Husa |
| 2000 - 2001 | Michael Daugherty |
| 1999 - 2000 | John Harbison |
| 1998 - 1999 | Libby Larsen |
| 1997 - 1998 | Tania León |
| 1996 - 1997 | Christopher Rouse |
| 1995 - 1996 | George Crumb |
| 1994 - 1995 | Samuel Adler |
| 1993 - 1994 | Jacob Druckman |
| 1992 - 1993 | Shulamit Ran |
| 1991 - 1992 | Karel Husa |
| 1990 - 1991 | William Bolcom |
| 1989 - 1990 | Joan Tower |
| 1988 - 1989 | John Corigliano |
| 1987 - 1988 | Joseph Schwantner |
