Elliot Cole Curriculum Vitae

Elliot Cole 227 Bay St. #4A Jersey City, NJ 07302 (512) 799.7767 ! [email protected] // elliotcole.com ! Education Ph.D in Composition (expected 2015) Advisor: Dmitri Tymoczko Dissertation: Hanuman’s Leap (composition for 8 voices and percussion ensemble) Master of Fine Arts in Composition (2012) Composition teachers: Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Dan Trueman, Dmitri Tymoczo, Barbara White

Rice University B.A. in Cognitive Science (Linguistics Concentration, 2008) B.Mus. Composition (2008) Composition teachers: Karim Al-Zand, Kurt Stallman, Anthony Brandt

Summer Study European American Musical Alliance, Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris (2006) counterpoint, keyboard harmony, analysis ! with Philip Lasser, Claude Baker, Narcis Bonet ! Professional! Events 2014 Guest Composer, Nief-Norf Summer Festival Guest Composer, Ohio University 2013 Postludes included in film Let Your Light Shine by Jodie Mack; shown at many international film festivals Guest Composer, Shenandoah Conservatory Guest Artist, Fulcrum Point New Music Chicago Singer, Sarah Snider's Unremembered at Merkin Hall Operacabal residency at High Concept Labs, Chicago 2011 Lucerne Festival Spotlight Artist Columbia University Remixing Opera performer and presenter Meet the Composer grant MATA Festival presenter !2007 Foundation for Modern Music Young Composer Award Elliot Cole Curriculum Vitae ! Writing! !2013 Hanuman’s Leap (essay), The Collagist ! Teaching

Sing Sing Correctional Facility (Musicambia program) Teaching basic, practical theory, voice and musicianship to 16 inmates. ! 8 sessions in Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Princeton University Ear Training Designing original course that emphasizes personal practice on real music, from organum to rock, while also training in solfege and harmonic visualization. 70 students over six weekly classes at all levels, Fall 2014-Spring 2015 ! Course website (in progress): elliotcole.com/ear-training 18th Century Counterpoint, TA for Dan Trueman, 2014 Led twice-weekly precept sessions for 20 students. ! Coached writing chorales and dance suites in the style of Bach. 16th Century Counterpoint, TA for Dan Trueman, 2013 Led twice-weekly precept sessions for 25 students. ! Coached writing motets in the style of Palestrina. Contemporary Music through Composition, TA for Paul Lansky, 2013 Assisted around twenty students, three hours a week, in writing and performing work ! inspired by 20th century music. Beginning Workshop in Composition, TA for Paul Lansky, 2012 Coached fifteen students, twice a week, in group composition and performance ! projects. Music since 1945, TA for Paul Lansky, 2011 Led twice-weekly precept sessions for about 20 students. Led discussions of listening and reading assignments. ! Graded and coached weekly writing assignments. Newark Collegiate Academy (KIPP high school) Started Music Technology Club ! Taught songwriting in Garageband to 15 students, once a week for one semester. Private composition studio Taught weekly lessons to 3 high school and college students since 2011. Elliot Cole Curriculum Vitae ! ! Houston Grand Opera Teaching Artist, Attucks Middle School, 2010 Helped around 20 students write speeches and design musical accompaniment. ! Performed piano with the students. Private piano studio ! Taught eight children (ages 5-8) weekly piano lessons from 2008-2010. ! Selected Work and! Performances 2014 Hecuba orchestra, bassoon, viola da gamba, harmonium, soprano (50:00) co-composed with Brad Balliett, Doug Balliett and Majel Connery !Premiere: Chicago Composers Orchestra, 6 November 2014 Casanova: Two Seductions tenor, baritone, baroque violins, baroque oboe, viola da gamba, cello, baroque guitar, theorbo (12:00) !Premiere: New Vintage Baroque, Greenwich House NY, 12 October 2014 Three Wells chamber orchestra and soprano (19:00) !Premiere: Decoda with Charlotte Mundy, Princeton NJ, 13 May 2014 Swamp Thing solo drumset (5:00) !Premiere: Jason Treuting, Princeton University, 11 February 2015 Facets Percussion quartet (10:00) !Premiere: So Percussion Summer Institute, 2014 ! ! 2013 Hanuman’s Leap 8 singers (SSAATBBB) with percussion // or Elliot Cole with percussion (30:00) Premiere: Roomful of Teeth, Galapagos, Brooklyn, Five Boroughs Music Festival, 4 May 2014 Performances by Elliot Cole in NYC, Athens OH, Cincinnati OH, Bloomington IN, Chicago IL, Ann Arbor MI, ! Detroit MI, Austin TX 2013-2014 Bloom Suite for solo guitar, solo marimba, trio (+clarinet +cello), or orchestra (13:00) Guitar premiere: Jordan Dodson, Juma Gallery Cleveland 8 November 2013 Elliot Cole Curriculum Vitae

Marimba premiere: Flavio Tanzi, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, 6 June 2014 Trio premiere: Marcel Trio, Cornelia St NYC, 29 November 2013 Performances by Jordan Dodson and Marcel Trio in Worthington OH, Philadelphia, Honest Brook Music ! Festival, Wilmington DE, Tunja and Bogota Colombia, Princeton NJ 2013-2014 Etude 6 solo piano (8:00) !Premiere: Conor Hanick, Princeton University, 2 December 2014 Vocalise solo violin (10:00) !Premiere: Tema Watstein, Princeton University 19 November 2013 ! 2012 Postludes bowed vibraphone quartet (22:00) Premiere: (1-5) So Percussion, Princeton University, 1 May 2012 (6-8) So Percussion Summer Institute, 21 July 2012 Nearing 100 performances by over 60 professional and university ensembles including Amadinda, TorQ Mobius Percussion, Iktus, Blow Up Roma, Juilliard, Eastman, Indiana, Michigan, Royal Conservatory Toron- !to, Mahidol University Bangkok. Unburden me swiftly after Machaut harp, koto, violin, viola, cello, gamba, bassoon and soprano (3:00) !Premiere: Chelsea Music Festival, 22 June 2012 Four Apparitions many Shakuhachi (11:00) !Premiere: Riley Lee, Princeton University Unknowable City no. 5 electric guitar quartet (10:00) !Premiere: Dither Electric Guitar Quartet, Princeton University, 28 February, 2012 Night Music string quintet (8:00) !Premiere: Flux Quartet with Logan Coale, Princeton University, 13 March 2012 The music I wrote last winter string quintet (17:00) !Premiere: Flux Quartet with Logan Coale, Princeton University, 13 March 2012 Etudes 1-5 for solo piano (17:00) !Premiere: Isabelle O’Connel, Princeton Unviersity, 15 May 2012 Elliot Cole Curriculum Vitae ! More !Work ! 2011 Unknowable City no. 4 for harp, violin, bassoon, gamba, piano, 8’ Billy Budd hip hop opera for chamber orchestra (co-composer), 40' De Rerum hip hop opera for chamber orchestra (co-composer), 20' Songs and Songes cycle for singers, string quintet, harp, bassoon, harmonium, 20' The Long Line for any number of instruments, 30' !Book of Abraham for 3 singers, loop pedal, co-written with Caroline Shaw and Majel Connery, 25' ! 2010 Whiteout Sonnets for violin, cello, piano, percussion, flute, clarinet, cimbalom, 10' The Fisherman and His Wife for string quartet, narrator, 20' Selkie, a Sea Tale chamber opera for two sopranos, cello, piano, 50' Electra music for theater with harp, percussion, harmonium and sampler, 70' Ladies and Gentlemen for violin and electronics, 8' !Games in Pairs for violin, viola, bassoon, bass, piano, flute, horn, 13' ! 2009 Babinagar cycle for harp, contrabass, harmonium, singers, 20' Night of the Giant music for theater, 50' !The Rake's Progress hip hop opera for chamber orchestra, (co-composer), 30' ! 2008 24 Rounds about Egypt songbook, 20' O (Unknowable City No. 2) for double string quartet and piano, 35' Endgame Study for clarinet, flute, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 10' Serenade for violin and piano, 7’ !0/1 on Conway’s Game of Life, video and synthesized sound, 11’ ! 2007 Ouroboros for double string quartet, 6' Wire/Hammers for recorded piano, 10' Parable of the Sower (Unknowable City No. 1) for piano + delay, 14’ Oracle Hysterical hip hop album, 30’ !The Tourist prelude and variations for solo piano, 6’ ! 2006 Clarinet Quintet, 7’ Shower Songs for clarinet, flute, cello, violin, percussion, piano, 10’ Elliot Cole Curriculum Vitae !Origins Etudes for string quartet, 18’ ! 2005 String Quartet — “Birds” 10' Sappho: Translations and Fragments, 6’ Etude: Momentum for solo cello, 4’ !Piano Vespers improvisations for solo piano, 52’ ! Discography

De Rerum, 2011 The Rake's Progress, 2009 Babinagar, 2009 The Oracle Hysterical, 2007 !Joe Scruggs, The Garden of the Lord (producer), 2007

Technology Proficiency

Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Supercollider, /MSP, Finale, Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, !After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop), WordPress (professional coding for the web since 2004) ! Software! Projects Blooms composition environment, SuperCollider, since 2011 Conway’s Game of Life , Max/MSP, 2007-2008 Glow, Wii-controlled feedback sampler, Max/MSP, 2007