Mary Montgomery Koppel

Music Theory

Mary Montgomery Koppel, Music Theory

Mary Montgomery Koppel, composer, teacher, and soprano, currently teaches music theory and composition at Boston University and at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.  She is a doctoral candidate in composition at Boston University’s School of Music, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College in Vermont and a Diplôme from l’Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris.  She has studied composition with Su Lian Tan, Theodore Antoniou, Martin Amlin, and Richard Cornell.

Before coming to Boston, she taught at Bennington College, where she also founded and conducted a chamber choir.  She is a founding member and composer-in-residence of Lorelei Ensemble, a women’s vocal group specializing in new and early music, engaged in commissioning composers from the US, Canada, and Europe.  Her works have been played by the Takàcs Quartet, Joel Sachs, the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, and ALEA III, as well as various chamber ensembles in Paris, Vermont, and Boston.  Current projects include an opera set in WWII-era Hong Kong.