With seemingly endless opportunities to learn human history through painting, sculpture and architecture, Rome is a city for the eyes. What does it mean to be a composer immersed in this profoundly visual experience? What are the territories that open as a result of translating art into the language of music? Suzanne Farrin will discuss how Michelangelo’s subtractive process shaped her approach to composing while writing an opera on his texts, and how this sculptural mindset may have further led her uncovering sounds in the piano.

Suzanne Farrin is the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome and the Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

The event will be held in English.