Kristin Kuster
Kristin P. Kuster is an American composer of symphonic, vocal and chamber music.
Biography
Kuster was born Kristin Peterson in Raleigh, North Carolina and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, Evan Chambers, and William Albright. She was awarded the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of [Arts and Letters] and the Underwood Emerging Composer Commission from American Composers Orchestra. Kuster is an Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was married to Andrew Kuster from 1997 to 2011.Style
Kuster "writes commandingly for the orchestra," and her music "has an invitingly tart edge". Kuster's colorfully enthralling compositions take inspiration from architectural space, the weather, and mythology. Her orchestral music "unquestionably demonstrates her expertise in crafting unique timbres".Works
Orchestra and orchestra with voicesIron Diamond Myrrha Beneath This Stone Rain On It Devil's ThumbOpera and musical theatreThe Trickster & The Troll A Thousand Acres
Wind ensembleInterior Lost Gulch Lookout Two Jades
Chamber ensembleAndo: Light Against Ahade Jellyfish Breath Beneath Ribbon Earth Perpetual Noon Midnight Mirror Perpetual Afternoon Little Trees Here, Leaving Sweet Poison Rain Chain Parting Wish Ribbon Windows, Curtain Walls Readings From the Middle Seat Red Pine
Vocal ensembleMyrrha Bleed Redness Zephyrus Home Given a Body Volta Moonrise White Hurricane: 1915
Vocal soloSilken Branches Soon Sorrow Dream Black Night Long Ago
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