About

Will Rowe (b. 1992) is a composer from Oxford, Michigan. His works are receiving performances both in the U.S. and internationally by such ensembles as the Camerata Silesia Katowice, ensemble mise-en, and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra and by such soloists as Bixby Kennedy, Blair McMillen, and Eliot Heaton. He is a graduate from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s B.M and M.M. in Composition programs, where he studied with Don Freund, Claude Baker, Sven-David Sandström, Aaron Travers, and David Dzubay, and served as the Assistant Director of their New Music Ensemble during his time there. Will’s supplemental education experience includes participation in the Fontainebleau Ecole d’Art Américaines, and the Freie Universität Berlin im Sommer Composition Program where he studied with François Paris and Allain Guissan, and with Samuel Adler respectively.

Will is a proud titlist in the BMI Student Composer Awards, the Maurice Gardner Competition, and the League of Composers/ISCM Competition, and participant in festivals such as the ISCM World Music Days festival, the mise-en festival, and the Miami ISCM New Music Festival. He also frequents the artist colony scene as a resident of the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony and the UCross Foundation. These residencies helped to foster his enjoyment of collaborative work, including the setting of several works by the poet Catherine Fletcher.

In addition to his involvement in composition, Will is an active copyist, arranger, and administrator. He currently lives in New York City, where he works as the General Manager of American Composers Alliance, assisting and advising fellow composers on their catalogs, and creating a living archive of American music, past and present. He also produces concerts around NYC as the General Manager of Roosevelt Island Concerts, and the Co-Curator of the contemporary chamber music series Concept Lab. In his free time, he enjoys following Red Wings hockey and playing duplicate bridge (poorly).