<p>UChicago has a very well regarded music composition department. I think that Easley Blackwood is still teaching and Philip Glass is one of the products of the program. Here is an excerpt by a UChicago alum and CC user by the name of “Cosmos” that he posted a few years back:</p>
<p>"My school, the University of Chicago, has a very good music department, and a great composition faculty. The department is small, but quite excellent and is regularly ranked first or second in the country (trading off with Harvard). There are also a number of excellent composers working in Chicago at the moment - Osvaldo Goljiov comes to mind - who your daughter could try to get lessons from if she were to attend UChicago, and the university would help pay for the lessons. At the University itself, we have John Eaton, Shulamit Ran, Easley Blackwood, Marta Ptaszynska, and Kotoka Suzuki teaching composition. We also have wonderful music theory, ethnomusicology, and music history faculty, as well as a number of solid performing groups, and three great ensembles in residence (the Pacifica Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra). We also have Center for Italian Opera Study led by the great music historian, Philip Gosset, who’s on faculty here.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any questions about the University or music department. "</p>
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