Jonathan Kulp (b. 1970) is Assistant Professor of music history and theory at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Music, where he holds the Margaret Chauvin Steen Villemez/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Music.  He began his musical studies at age eight, taking up the classical guitar in high school and going on to earn a degree in guitar performance from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  At UTC he studied guitar under Mario Abril and composition under Peter Temko.  Kulp also holds a Master's degree in music theory and a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Kulp is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and to the German music encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, and has published two articles on Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) in the Latin-American Music Review.
As a composer, Kulp was the youngest of eight winners selected in G. Schirmer's 1995 Young Americans Art Song Competition, and his winning song “Canción tonta” was subsequently published in The Art Song Collection, the first volume of “G. Schirmer's New American Voices Series”.  Award-winning guitarist Steve Kostelnik has recorded Kulp's Danza Dominicana and Danza Cubana, music that Classical Guitar Magazine (England) describes as having “a mesmerizing montage of rhythmic patterns.”   In 1999 Dr. Kulp was commissioned by La Follia Austin Baroque ensemble to write the chamber work rosetree follies, based on a poem by e.e. cummings.  In 2002 he wrote Five Poems of Emily Dickinson for voice and guitar on a commission from tenor/guitarist Matthew Hinsley, who also recorded four of Kulp's Canciones para niños on his CD entitled Passions Move (2002).  Recent compositions include Montuno and Fugue for two pianos, written in 2003 for the Nyaho-García Duo,  Merengue for Orchestra (2004), and Tarantella for solo piano (2005), written for Alexandre Dossin.
Kulp is a former competitive skateboarder and now spends much of his leisure time playing disc golf and watching sports of all kinds. (2007)
Web: http://www.jonathankulp.com/bio.html
Kupferman Meyer
Email by David Starobin to rec.music.classical.contemporar:
Kupferman was certainly among the most prolific composers of our time--at least a dozen symphonies, seven operas, a lot of ballet music, film music, and a ton of chamber and solo music to his credit.  Many listeners first came to Meyer's music through Paul Kapp's old Serenus label.  Paul released a lot of Meyer's work from the late 40s and 50s--memorable scores including Meyer's “Lyric Symphony” and his wonderful “Sonata on Jazz Elements”, played by pianist, Morton Estrin.  I also fell in love with the recording of Meyer's terrific “Jazz Cello Concerto” played by Meyer's long-time friend and champion, cellist Laszlo Varga.  After the demise of Serenus, Meyer formed his own “Soundspells” label, recording numerous chamber and orchestral compositions.
I first met Meyer in the late 60s.  I attended an all-Kupferman concert at Carnegie Recital Hall and was amazed by the fluency of his language.  Meyer's work encompassed diatonic music, welve tone music, jazz, aleatoric music and just about any technique that he could put to use in serving his huge appetite for expression.  Kupf's fluency was a double-edged sword, however.  He could produce an intricate work faster than anyone I've ever encountered, but tended to overuse previously used material.  Recognizing this, his answer was “if out of all of that some good works are born, then the bad ones will soon be forgotten.”
During the 70s and 80s Meyer wrote more than twenty works at my request—solo guitar music, chamber music, vocal music, and a few concertos.  When he outran my ability to keep up with his output, a generation of my students continued to request and perform new works.
Meyer was an avid painter (hundreds of his canvases lined his apartment and house), an adventurous cook, a devoted husband to his loving wife, Pei-Fen Chin, and a superb teacher to hundreds of composers.  I'll never forget his amazing creative energy and powerful personality.
--David Starobin