Jerome Kitzke is a composer

Composer

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 who grew up along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan

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 in Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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History

He received his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and moved to New York City

New York City

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 in 1984. In 1992 Kitzke formed his performing group Mad Coyote. His music has also been performed by the Milwaukee Symphony

Symphony

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, the New Juilliard Ensemble

Musical ensemble

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, Essential Music, Present Music, Earplay, Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist (new music group)

Zeitgeist is an American contemporary classical music group based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1977.Its instrumentation includes two percussion, piano, and woodwinds...

, Guy Klucevsek, Margaret Leng Tan, and Kathleen Supove. Kitzke has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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, American Music Center

American Music Center

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, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and BMI

Broadcast Music Incorporated

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. In 2004 and 2006 he vistied the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, New York to compose music for their shows. He even put music to Allen Ginsberg's poem Green Automobile. He is a quarter Persian.

Chamber Works

• A Keening Wish, narrator and ensemble
• Alone On A Hill in Grandfather Night, mixed trio
• Breath and Bone, accordion solo
• Haunted America, mixed quartet
• In Bone Colored Light, mixed sextet
• Mad Coyote Madly Sings, large mixed ensemble
• Present Music, large mixed ensemble
• Regina Takes the Holy Road, 3 December 1994, mixed quintet
• She Left in the Crow Black Night, clarinet, unac
• Teeth of Heaven, mixed sextet
• The Big Gesture, mixed trio
• The Character of American Sunlight, percussion ensemble, mixed quintet
• The Earth Only Endures, percussion solo
• The Paha Sapa Give-Back, piano and ensemble, percussion ensemble
• The Redness of Blood, mixed quartet
• We Need to Dream All This Again, mixed quintet

Vocal Works

• 171st Chorus, medium voice
• Box Death Hollow, vocal soloists and ensemble, men's chorus and ensemble

External links

• Peermusic Classical: Jerome Kitzke Composer's Publisher and Bio
• Breath and Bone recording