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Jonathan
Kulp
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Musicology, The University of
Texas at Austin, 2001
M.M., Music Theory, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994
B.M., Performance, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 1992
Dr. Jonathan Kulp (b. 1970) has been on the music faculty at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette since 2001, and has held the
Margaret Chauvin Steen Villemez/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Music
since 2004. 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. His dissertation is a study of the art
songs of Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000), and he has
published two peer-reviewed articles on this composer in the
Latin-American Music Review.
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 Classical Guitar
Magazine (England) describes as having “a mesmerizing montage of
rhythmic patterns.” Kulp's song cycle Five Poems of Emily
Dickinson, for voice and guitar (2002), has been performed throughout
the U.S. and Canada, and his earlier cycle Canciones para niños
was recorded on a CD entitled Cantabile en Cuerdas by soprano Rosana
Risé and guitarist Sergio Moldavsky, both professors at the
Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel de Falla" in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Recent compositions include Montuno and Fugue
for two pianos, written in 2003 for the Nyaho-García Duo,
Merengue for Orchestra (2004), and Tarantella (2005) for solo
piano. Kulp's music for guitar is published by Les Productions
D'Oz 2000, Inc. (Quebec, Canada).
Dr. Kulp is a former competitive skateboarder and now spends much of
his leisure time playing disc golf and watching sports of all kinds.
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