Discipline: Music Composition

Robert Parris

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1958

Studios

MacDowell

Robert Parris worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

Learn more