CNM 2023-24 FELLOW, LEN TETTA

PAST FELLOWS:

Lingbo Ma, 2022-23

Brian Sears, 2020-21

Benjamin Park, 2019-20

Joseph Sowa, 2018-19

Yi Yiing Chen, 2017-18

Talia Amar, 2016-17

Katherine Balch, 2015-16

Stephanie Anne Boyd, 2014-15

Len Tetta is a composer from Malden, Massachusetts. He has composed works for performance by leading new music ensembles such as the New Thread Saxophone Quartet, the Arx Duo, the JACK Quartet, Sound Icon, and the Mivos Quartet, and has collaborated on numerous occasions with Richard Carrick’s Neither/Nor ensemble as both composer and guitarist.

In 2020, his string quartet composition Farthest Corners was selected as one of the top 17 entries in the Bartók World Competition’s Competition for Composers. His work Five Miniatures and a Fantasy was premiered by the New Thread Saxophone Quartet in February 2019, and was also featured on their “Explorations Vol. 4: ATTACCA” concert in September 2019. His percussion duet Avoid and Evade was premiered and recorded by the Arx Duo in November 2020, and his string quartet composition Clockwork Fog was premiered and recorded by the Mivos Quartet in April 2022.

Tetta is also a committed educator. During his time at Berklee College of Music, he served as the Vice President of the school’s Society of Composers, and regularly gave presentations to the student body on composition and music history. He also organized and conducted talks and interviews with composers including Kate Soper, Nico Muhly, John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, and Mark Appelbaum. While pursuing his Master’s, he taught music history to undergraduate students, worked as a music theory tutor, and continued giving frequent lectures to the Society of Composers at Berklee. Now studying at Boston University, he continues to work as a music theory tutor as well as a keyboard harmony instructor, and also serves as a composition and theory teacher at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Composition Fundamentals Workshop.

Tetta studied composition at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2013, and graduated from Berklee College of Music's Composition program in 2019, where he was presented the Jeromimas Kacinskas Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composition. He received his Master’s in Composition from the Boston Conservatory in 2021, where he studied with Marti Epstein. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. at Boston University, where he studies with Joshua Fineberg.