Bachelor of Music (Composition) from The Juilliard School. Master of Studies in Music (Composition) from Hertford College, University of Oxford.
Course
DPhil Music (Composition)
College
Christ Church
New music, musical theater, opera, lyric, translations to be sung, pre-1800 historically-informed performance
Music for the theater as motivic "worldbuilding", a term taken from the high-fantasy literary genre. Analysis of a work not as a small motivic cell blooming outward, but as a setting designed to maximize the impact of a smaller idea's given journey. A process of musical storytelling that is simultaneously abstract and programmatic. www.JakeLandau.com