Laura Careless (above with Andrew Murdock), a third-year dancer who is collaborating with Jonathan Keren, a post-graduate composition student, said: "To work with a composer so closely has really been eye-opening.
A graduate in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mr. Peterson earned a double master's degree in composition and choral conducting from Mannes College the New School for Music in Manhattan.
MIRO MAGLOIRE was only 17 when he took a graduate level composition class at the Cologne musical conservatory in his native Germany.
Tutored in classical violin since shortly after his parents could balance him on two legs, Pallett graduated in composition from the University of Toronto in 2002.
Miller, who is a graduate student in composition at the Juilliard School and had backpacked through Europe prior to receiving this commission, describes the tripartite composition as the result of "a personal pilgrimage that has helped [him] approach music in a different way".
Before her singing career took off, the classical music composition graduate had been working 16-hour days and three jobs to save money to record an album.
After Army service in the Pacific as the conductor of the Seventh Infantry Division Band, Mr. Ward did graduate work in composition and conducting at the Juilliard School.
It took me to albums such as As If It Never Existed by voidesque, an electroacoustic composition graduate, not to mention professional Javanese gamelan player, whose warped beats are sometimes generated by algorithms.
"The Gaits" was organized by three composition graduate students at Princeton, Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson and Cameron Britt, with the help of an iPhone app expert, Daniel Iglesia, whom Ms. Fefferman called a "programming ninja".
Having graduated to the composition class under Ambroise Thomas, Massenet was entered for the Conservatoire's top musical honour, the Prix de Rome, previous winners of which included Berlioz, Thomas, Gounod and Bizet.
