SUPKO John Peter

 

Harvard University

Department of Music

Cambridge, MA 02138

USA

 

jsupko@fas.harvard.edu

jsupko@princeton.edu

www.johnsupko.com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2009

      PhD, Princeton University

 

Dissertation:  Points and Lines:  The Musical Language of Erik Satie

Dissertation composition:  Littoral 

Adviser:  Prof. Paul Lansky

 

2005 (Summer)

      German language study at the Goethe Institut:  Berlin, Germany

 

2005

MFA, Princeton University

 

2002 – 2003

Fulbright Full Grant:  Studies with Narc’s Bonet at the ƒcole Normale de Musique

& the Schola Cantorum in Paris, France

 

1998 – 2002

BM, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana

 

1994 – 1998

      Studies, Levine School of Music, Washington, DC

 

 

PRINCIPAL TEACHERS

 

2003 – 2007

      Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Dmitri Tymoczko

 

2002 – 2003

      Narc’s Bonet

 

1998 – 2002

      Claude Baker, Eugene OÕBrien, Sven-David Sandstršm

 

1994 – 1998

      Frances Thompson McKay

 

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

 

2008

Prix de Monaco:  finalist

 

Leo Kaplan Prize – ASCAP / Morton Gould Young Composers Award

 

2007 – 2008

      Residency:  CitŽ Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

 

2007

      Georges Lurcy Fellowship (Paris, France)

 

2005

      Meet the Composer Grant

 

2003

      Perkins Prize, Princeton University

 

Naumberg Fellowship, Princeton University

     

2002

      Fulbright Full Grant (France)

 

2002 – 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 51b (Spring) - Music Theory

            Teaching Assistant for Prof. Alexander Rehding

 

Harvard University:  Music 51a (Fall) - Music Theory

      Teaching Assistant for Prof. Alexander Rehding

     

      Harvard University:  Music 2 (Fall) – Music Theory

            Teaching Assistant for Peter Gilbert (lecturer)

 

2006 – 2007

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

Preceptor for Prof. Steven Mackey

 

2004 – 2005

Princeton University:  Music 105 (Fall) / 106 (Spring) – 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 (Spring) – 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