Michael Rothkopf, Interim Dean
Phone: (336)770-3251
Email: rothkm@ncarts.edu

Michael S. Rothkopf is a composer of chamber, electronic, orchestral and vocal music.  His works have been noted for their "remarkable sensuousness" and their evocative ability to create a "sense of time and occasion."  His works have been performed throughout the United States and are published by American Composers Editions.  Dr. Rothkopf served as Music Director of the Ariel Contemporary Chamber Ensemble from1982-86 and as Executive Director of the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music U.S. Section from1989-91. 

He has been awarded fellowships from the National Orchestral Association, Yaddo, Carnegie Hall and Columbia University.  With Master of Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Columbia University, his principal composition teachers have been Normand Lockwood and Mario Davidovsky.  His formal studies also include composition with Jack Beeson, Susan Blaustein, George Edwards and Chou Wen-Chung, counterpoint and analysis with Jacques-Louis Monod and double bass with Harry Safstrom. 

Currently, Dr. Rothkopf teaches composition, graduate and undergraduate music technology and graduate music history and music theory review and graduate career strategies courses at the North Carolina School of the Arts.  Dr. Rothkopf currently serves as President of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival and is on the editorial boards of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resourse for Online Teaching) and JOLT (the Journal for Online Learning and Teaching.)  Past teaching appointments have included Columbia University, Yeshiva University and Stern College.