Now in its Eleventh year, the Visiting Composer Series is recognized as the foremost series of its kind in the country. Each year a number of outstanding composers is brought to the UT campus for three days of rehearsal, performance, lectures, and classes. What makes this series unique among projects of its kind is the importance of having student performing groups heavily involved in the residencies: the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, New Music Ensemble, Choral Ensembles, and Opera Theater have all been heavily involved in performing the music of our time in the presence of the women and men who are writing that music.

The Visiting Composers Series has hosted such luminaries as John Corigliano, Thea Musgrave, John Harbison, Joan Tower, and David Del Tredici. Directed by composer Dan Welcher (Lee Hage Jamail Regents Professor of Fine Arts), the Series has become one of the most closely-watched elements of the Austin arts calendar.

Fall 2007 Susan Botti Professor of Composition, the Manhattan School of Music With the New Music Ensemble, Dan Welcher, director October 2, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. McCullough Theatre Admission is free Spring 2008 TBA