Kubilay uner biography of michael

When Kubilay “Kubi” Uner joined Columbia in 2014 as the director of the MFA in Music Composition for the Screen, he brought with him more than 20 years of experience making music for visual media.

Kubilay uner biography of michael

The Composer-in-Residence program, which Uner proposed, is designed so that each cohort of students gets to work closely with three different composers in residence before they graduate. Over the course of each seven-week residency, the students re-score a previous project by that composer.

The composers-in-residence recreate the process of each particular project as they experienced it, to challenge the students to adjust to real-life situations. “It’s equal parts flight simulator and apprenticeship,” says Uner.

“How better to learn art-making than with the artists themselves