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Jonathan D. Kramer was born on 7 December
1942 in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his B.A. magna cum
laude from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University of California at Berkeley. His composition teachers
included Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roger Sessions, Leon Kirchner,
Seymour Shifrin, Andrew Imbrie, Richard Felciano, Jean-Claude
Eloy, Billy Jim Layton, Edwin Dugger, and Arnold Franchetti.
He studied theory with David Lewin, criticism with Joseph Kerman,
and computer music with John Chowning.
Professor of Composition and Theory at Columbia University since
1988, Jonathan previously taught at Oberlin Conservatory, Yale
University and University of Cincinnati. He held visiting appointments
at Wesleyan University, King's College of the University of
London, the Canberra School of Music, the University of Western
Australia, the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio (Italy),
the Center for New Music and Technology (Berkeley), May in Miami,
the ISCM Summer Workshop for Composers (Poland), and the European
Mozart Academy (Poland). Jonathan served four years as Program
Annotator of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was Annotator
of the Cincinnati Symphony since 1980, and a collection of his
program notes, Listen to the Music, was published by
Schirmer Books. He was the Cincinnati Symphony's Composer-in-Residence
and New-Music Advisor from 1984 to 1992 and served as artist
in residence of The Moebius Ensemble since 1997. Jonathan produced
and hosted several local and national radio programs and represented
American Public Radio three times at the International Rostrum
of Composers in Paris.
Jonathan's honors included a Barlow Endowment Commission, the
Ohio Governor's Award for Individual Artists, three composer
Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Independent
Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the
Alienor Harpsichord Composition Award, three Individual Artist
Fellowship Grants from the Ohio Arts Council, the Koussevitzky
Prize, and the Copland Grant. |
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