YALE STUDENT COMPOSERS PROJECT                                                OHVII 8a

Loren Loicono

with Libby Van Cleve

New Haven, CT

October 20, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Playing piano at age 2 — lessons beginning at age 5 — “editing” the pieces she was playing — Dr. Daniel Deutsch — deciding to pursue music at age 6 or 7 — reasons for choosing Yale as an undergraduate — academically-driven — influence of liberal arts education on musical studies — musical and artistic experiences as an undergraduate at Yale — Pas de Deux — commission from Berkeley College Orchestra — influence of Rachmaninov, Ravel, Mahler — catharsis after breakup — late Romantic brink of tonality — rhythmic characteristics — affinity for minor seventh chords — current projects — song cycle based on poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay — For Madmen Only based on Hesse — Steppenwolf (novel) — possibility of collaborating with dancers — Christopher Theofanidis — pre-compositional approach — intuitive regarding melody, harmony, rhythm — focus on form.