Darcy Copeland

Darcy Copeland is a composer of contemporary and electroacoustic music based in Boston, MA. She composes music as a means to express her inner worlds and to explore the beauty and strangeness of moving, feeling, and being on a ravaged Earth. She hears her work as a site of possibility and as an opportunity to unravel parts of herself and make sense of our world in ways not accessible through language. She is a PhD candidate at Harvard University and the director of the Harvard Group for New Music.

In 2022, Darcy joined the PhD program in composition at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. She holds a master of music in composition from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and a bachelor of music in composition from Columbia College Chicago. Since April 2024 she has been the director of the Harvard Group for New Music (HGNM).