YALE STUDENT COMPOSERS PROJECT                                              OHVII 10a

Jordan Kuspa

with Maura Valenti

New Haven, CT

March 30, 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Born in San Diego — grew up in Houston — composition major at Rice — cello studies with Norman Fischer — choice between cello and composition at the end of high school — starting composing at age eight — homeschool — Piano Trio — eclectic musical tastes — Lemonade Battery — tango at the end of Piano Trio — being conscious of the performers — Joel Hoffman — summer program in Croatia — “I write music for myself and the people who are going to play it.” — dual influence of Martin Bresnick and Pierre Jalbert piano trios on Piano Trio — use of four-note cell in Piano Trio — affinity for writing orchestral music — future of orchestras and orchestral music — writing chamber music for friends — MMA program at Yale — MMA paper topic — American symphonic composition since 1980 — Martin Bresnick — Christopher Theofanidis — Ingram Marshall — Ezra Laderman.