Richard Cornell
Chair of Music Studies, Associate Professor of Music, Composition and Theory
Piano Diploma, Longy School of Music; Mus. B., Emerson College; MM, New England Conservatory; PhD, Eastman School. Dr. Cornell studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson; and theory with David Beach, Robert Morris, and Robert Cogan. Director of Boston University Electroacoustic Studios. Former faculty member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Longy School, and Berkshire Music Center. Professor Cornell has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Yaddo, New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. He has performed with Boston Musica Viva, Dinosaur Annex, Pro Arte Orchestra, Alea III, Muir Quartet, Collage New Music, Triple Helix, Baltic Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Musical Spring, Beth Stoll & Company, and Bleu Heron Theater, and is the Composer in Residence, New England Philharmonic Installations. He has participated in virtual reality artworks with Deborah Cornell, BU Computer Graphics Laboratory, and Boston Cyber Arts. He has had commissions from Harvard Musical Association, New England Philharmonic, Concord Chorus, Concord Orchestra, et al. Recordings of his works as composer and conductor are on Northeastern Records.
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