KULP Jonathan

Jonathan Kulp (b. 1970) is Assistant Professor of music history and theory at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Music. He began his musical studies at age eight, taking up the classical guitar in high school and going on to earn a degree in guitar performance from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. At UTC he studied guitar under Mario Abril and composition under Peter Temko. Kulp also holds a Master's degree in music theory and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kulp is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and to the German music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and his dissertation is a study of the art songs of Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000). As a composer, Kulp was the youngest of eight winners selected in G. Schirmer's 1995 Young Americans Art Song Competition, and his winning song "Canción tonta" was subsequently published in The Art Song Collection, the first volume of "G. Schirmer's New American Voices Series." Award-winning guitarist Steve Kostelnik has recorded Kulp's Danza Dominicana and Danza Cubana, music that The Coral Gables Gazette describes as "infectious, graceful, and uplifting." In 1999 Dr. Kulp was commissioned by La Follia Austin Baroque ensemble to write the chamber work rosetree follies, based on a poem by e.e. cummings. In 2002 he wrote Five Poems of Emily Dickinson for voice and guitar on a commission from tenor/guitarist Matthew Hinsley, who also recorded four of Kulp's Canciones para niños on his CD entitled Passions Move (2002). His most recent work is Montuno and Fugue for two pianos, written in 2003 for the Nyaho-García Duo. http://www.jonathankulp.com/