Biographies
Pozzi Escot is a Professor of Composition and Graduate Theoretical Studies at New England Conservatory of Music. Virgil Thomson has said, "I esteem her as the most interesting and original woman composer now functioning."
Her works have received important performances in London, Munich, Belgrade, Madrid, Hamburg, Paris, Tokyo, China, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, New York... She has lectured throughout Europe, Asia, and America; serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sonus, a global music journal; and has served as President of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies since 1993.
As a composer she has received many commissions and awards. Her works are recorded on the Delos, Leo, Music and Arts, Neuma, Centaur, and Spectrum labels. In 1975 she was named an Outstanding Educator in America and in 1999 was selected Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Robert Cogan, former Chair of Graduate Theoretical Studies and Professor of Composition at New England Conservatory of Music, has also been Visiting Professor at the Berkshire Music Center, IBM Research, SUNY College at Purchase, and at the leading conservatories in Beijing and Shanghai, China. His compositions have been programmed, performed and recorded throughout the world (the Avignon, Gubbio, Montanea, and Tanglewood Festivals; the Cleveland, RIAS Berlin, and Berkshire Music Center Orchestras).
"Raw power, very personal and original," New York Times; "thrilling musical and philosophical drama," Moscow Journal of Musical Life