Our students come from diverse musical backgrounds, and we do not expect all applicants to have expertise across all three areas of composition, improvisation and technology, or extensive experience integrating them. However, we do expect strong skills in at least one of those areas, and most admitted students also have some background in at least one of the others. We also seek applicants who are actively engaged in the performance of their own music, and whose creative work embraces the realtime dimensions of music creation, since these are aspects that distinguish ICIT from many other graduate music programs.