Degrees |
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
The Clarendon Fund Scholarship