SUPKO John Peter

 

Harvard University

Department of Music

Cambridge, MA 02138

USA

 

jsupko@fas.harvard.edu

jsupko@princeton.edu

www.johnsupko.com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2008 (expected)

      Ph.D.:  Princeton University

Dissertation topic:  Points and Lines:  The Musical Language of  Erik Satie / Dissertation composition:  Littoral 

Advisor:  Prof. Paul Lansky

 

2005 (Summer)

      German language study at the Goethe Institut:  Berlin, Germany

 

2005

MFA (Master of Fine Arts in Musical Composition):  Princeton University

 

2002 Ð 2003

Fulbright Full Grant:  Studies with Narc’s Bonet at the ƒcole Normale de Musique & the Schola Cantorum in Paris, France

 

1998 Ð 2002

BM (Bachelor of Music in Composition):  Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana

 

1994 Ð 1998

      Levine School of Music, Washington, DC

 

 

PRINCIPAL TEACHERS

 

2003 Ð 2007

      Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko

 

2002 Ð 2003

      Narc’s Bonet

 

1998 Ð 2002

      Claude Baker, Eugene OÕBrien, Sven-David Sandstršm

 

1994 Ð 1998

      Frances Thompson McKay, Jeffrey Chappell

 

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

 

2008

Prix de Monaco:  finalist; announcement of winner in October 2008

 

Leo Kaplan Prize Ð ASCAP / Morton Gould Young Composers Award

 

2007 Ð 2008

      Residency:  CitŽ Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

 

2007

      Georges Lurcy Fellowship

 

2005

      Meet the Composer Grant

 

2003

      Perkins Prize, Princeton University

 

Naumberg Fellowship, Princeton University

     

2002

      Fulbright Full Grant (France)

 

2002 Ð 2003

      Residency:  CitŽ Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

 

2000

DeanÕs Prize, Indiana University School of Music

 

1998

Morton Gould / ASCAP Young Composers Award

 

1997

BMI Student Composer Award

 

Grand Prize:  BMG / Williams College National Young Composers Award

 

1995

Levine Scholar, Levine School of Music, Washington, DC

 

 

TEACHING & OTHER EXPERIENCE

 

2008 - present

Harvard University:  Music 51 (Fall) - Music Theory

      Teaching Assistant for Prof. Alexander Rehding

     

      Harvard University:  Music 2 (Fall) Ð Music Theory

            Teaching Assistant for Peter Gilbert (lecturer)

 

2006 Ð 2007

Princeton University:  Music 205 (Fall) / 206 (Spring) Ð Counterpoint

Preceptor for Prof. Steven Mackey

 

2004 Ð 2005

Princeton University:  Music 105 (Fall) / 106 (Spring) Ð Music Theory

            Preceptor for Prof. Barbara White

 

Princeton University:  Composition Colloquia Coordinator; organized the visits of composers Michael Gordon, Phill Niblock, Zeena Parkins, among others

 

2003 

Princeton University:  Music 110 (Fall) Ð Songwriting

            Preceptor for Prof. Paul Lansky

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2006

      ætre ˆ la hauteur de cette joie, Harpo &:  Marseille, France

 

2005

      This Window Makes Me Feel, self-released DVD

 

2004

MÏurs de CŽsure, Collection MŽmoires:  Paris, France

 

 

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

 

French (fluent), German (moderate), Italian (reading), Latin (reading), Ancient Greek (reading)

 

 

SOFTWARE USED

 

Finale, Max/MSP, ProTools LE / HD, Reason, Sibelius