Composition Faculty

Patty Darling directs the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble and also teaches classes in jazz composition, arranging, electronic music and functional jazz piano.  Patty completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Compos

Loren Kiyoshi Dempster uses a combination of cello, computer, electronics, composition, improvisation, notated scores, movement, and world music influences to create, teach and perform music.

The music of Joanne Metcalf, acclaimed as “music of great beauty” (Klassik-Heute) and “extraordinarily beautiful” (International Record Review), is known for its evocative lyricism, rhythmic extravagance, “beguiling yet subtly dissonant language” (MusicWeb Intern

Indian-American composer Asha Srinivasan draws from her Western musical training and Indian heritage to create her compositional language.

Matt Turner is widely regarded as one of the world's leading improvising cellists.