JUSTIN TAYLOR CAPPS
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that neither panders to nor precludes any influences or audiences.
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Justin Capps (b. 1980)
Justin
Capps became a composer in the third year of his undergraduate
education at Swarthmore College. He has been exceptionally fortunate to
study composition with Gerald Levinson, Virko Baley, Jorge
Villavicencio-Grossmann, Joel Friedman, and Thomas Whitman, all of whom
are at least partly to blame for his musical endeavors. Justin has also
had rewarding instructional sessions with Bernard Rands, Steven Stucky,
Paul Moravec, Paul Chihara, Ian Krouse, Fredrick Kaufman, Erica Muhl,
Vincent Plush, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Paul Basler, and members of
the Alta Voz Collective.
Prior to his engagement in the practice of composition, Justin had performed with varying degrees of success as saxophonist, oboist, English hornist, pianist, guitarist, clarinetist, flautist, and vocalist, receiving much of his musical education in California's Central Valley and in programs along the Pacific Coast. When not organizing dots on a page or actively chasing musical development with something like abandon, Justin occupies himself with other facets of music, literature, and unceasing admiration of his wife, Emma and his newborn thunder stealer, Zoë Louise Capps. He received his M.M. in Music Composition/Theory from UNLV in December 2007.
His work has been recognized with several awards and prizes: Selection to participate in 2007 NEON Composition Symposium, Swarthmore Scholar, Niyomsit Scholar, Boyd Barnard Prize in Music, Garrigues Foundation Scholarship in Music, Liberace Foundation Scholarship for Jazz Studies.
Prior to his engagement in the practice of composition, Justin had performed with varying degrees of success as saxophonist, oboist, English hornist, pianist, guitarist, clarinetist, flautist, and vocalist, receiving much of his musical education in California's Central Valley and in programs along the Pacific Coast. When not organizing dots on a page or actively chasing musical development with something like abandon, Justin occupies himself with other facets of music, literature, and unceasing admiration of his wife, Emma and his newborn thunder stealer, Zoë Louise Capps. He received his M.M. in Music Composition/Theory from UNLV in December 2007.
His work has been recognized with several awards and prizes: Selection to participate in 2007 NEON Composition Symposium, Swarthmore Scholar, Niyomsit Scholar, Boyd Barnard Prize in Music, Garrigues Foundation Scholarship in Music, Liberace Foundation Scholarship for Jazz Studies.