Len Tetta

Len Tetta is a Lecturer in the Department of Composition and Theory at Boston University and a Lecturer in Composition at Keene State College. He has also served on the Composition Faculty for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Composition Fundamentals Workshop, Electroacoustic Composition Workshop, and Young Artists’ Composition Program. His primary academic interests include the grammatical organization of musical materials and structures, particularly harmony, and form theory concerning both classical and popular musics.

Tetta has composed works for performance by leading new music ensembles such as Collage New Music, the Mivos Quartet, the Arx Duo, and the New Thread Saxophone Quartet. He has studied with composers including Marti Epstein, Andrew List, Eun Young Lee, Joshua Fineberg, and Richard Cornell.

In 2020, his string quartet composition Farthest Corners was selected as a finalist in the Bartók World Competition’s Competition for Composers. He was selected as the Collage Fellow by Collage New Music for their 2023-2024 season, and composed “A conversation you cannot hear” for their final concert of the season in April 2024. He attended the Zodiac Music Academy and Festival in July 2022, where his chamber work “You could wake up dead tomorrow” was premiered and recorded. His string quartet composition Clockwork Fog was premiered and recorded by the Mivos Quartet in April 2022, and his percussion duet Avoid and Evade was premiered and recorded by the Arx Duo in November 2020. His work Five Miniatures and a Fantasy was premiered by the New Thread Saxophone Quartet in February 2019, and was also featured on their “Explorations Vol. 4: ATTACCA” concert in September 2019.