YALE STUDENT COMPOSER PROJECT                                                  OHVII 5a

Paul Kerekes

with Maura Valenti

New Haven, CT

October 20, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

First composition was piano solo at age 7 — beginning formal composition studies in high school — Frank Doyle, Northport High School — first performance of work: string quartet written in high school — studying composition at Mannes Preparatory Division with Eleanor Cory (age 16-17) — piano major at Mannes Preparatory Division — aesthetic change in the last year (2009) — old style was folk-influenced; Bartók and Stravinsky — current interest in Renaissance and other early music — studying Baroque cello — hail — current projects — affinity for Minimalism and using fewer ideas in a piece — characterizes music as post-Minimalist — David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon — impressions of Yale — liking Byrd, Monteverdi, Fitzwilliam Virginal Book but not consciously influenced by them — jazz inspired bert’s life flashes before his eyes for Andy Akiho — harmonic similarity in works — varying characters.