YALE STUDENT COMPOSER PROJECT                                                  OHVII 7a

Garth Neustadter

with Maura Valenti

New Haven, CT

October 20, 2010

            TABLE OF CONTENTS

Born and raised in Wisconsin — music teacher parents — Suzuki violin and piano lessons — attending Itzhak Perlman recital — undergraduate degrees in violin and voice performance — interest in jazz — playing saxophone — early compositions for jazz groups — jazz influence — writing music for film in high school — dual role as performer and composer — Violin Sonata — neo-Romantic style — Robert Beaser — Jennifer Higdon — new tonalism — Turner Classic Movies Prize for film score — writing score for PBS documentary on John Muir — approaches to writing film vs. concert music — Paul Chihara — String Trio — “Americana” style — recording processes — late Romantic influence — Mahler — Zemlinsky — early Second Viennese School — French Impressionists — Messiaen — Christopher Theofanidis — Yale faculty — blending different traditions — John Corigliano — audience awareness — opportunity to communicate classical music to wide audiences through film scores — Hans Zimmer — close relationship between film and concert music — Erich Korngold — Bernard Hermann.