Pozzi Escot

Disciplines: Music Composition
Disciplines: Music Composition
Residencies: 1962, 1963, 1963, 1964, 1965
Pozzi Olga Escot is an American composer and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Escot was born in Lima, Peru, to a French diplomat. She lived in Peru for five years, then returned to France. She studied at the Academy of Music Sas-Rosay in Lima, Peru, between 1949 and 1953. At the end of 1953, she emigrated to the United States to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon, becoming a citizen three years later. Between 1954 and 1957 she studied at the Juilliard School (New York), where she graduated with a degree in composition (1956) and a bachelor of arts (1957). She is a graduate of the Musikhochschule-Hamburg. She is author of The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music, co-author of Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music, and beginning in 1980, was editor-in-chief of the self-published music journal Sonus. She has written more than 30 articles (mostly published in her own journal) developing and discussing the relationship between music and mathematics. Her works are recorded on Delos, Neuma, Spectrum, Leo, Music & Arts, and Centaur labels and published by Publication Contact International.

Studios

Barnard

Pozzi Escot worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…

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