Faculty: Composition

Bruce Saylor 
Professor, Queens College and the Graduate Center
(Ph.D., CUNY)



Music Department
Aaron Copland School of Music
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
718-997-3800
BruceSaylor@aol.com

Bruce Saylor has been commissioned and performed by major orchestras, chamber groups, opera companies, and soloists. The winner of more than 35 awards in his field, he has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Society of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.

He is also active as a music scholar, and he has publications in Musical Quarterly, Musical America, CMS Symposium, Contemporary Music Newsletter, Musica Judaica.  A particular interest of his is the music of Henry Cowell: he wrote the article on Cowell for the New Grove Dictionary.

Hear Bruce Salyor's  "Cantos from the Inferno"