Jesse Ayers Awarded MacDowell Fellowship

photo of Jesse working at the MacDowell Colony Jesse in front of his studio at the MacDowell Colony

September 2010.  The MacDowell Colony has announced that composer Jesse Ayers has been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the Fall of 2010.  The fellowship includes a residency at the 450 acre wooded site in New Hampshire.

Past fellows incude Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Thornton Wilder, James Baldwin, Willa Cather, and Dubose and Dorothy Heyward. 

According to the the MacDowell Colony web site, the colony's mission is to "nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which to produce enduring works of the imagination."