Jerome Kitzke
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Jerome Kitzke (b. 1955) is a composer who grew up along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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He received his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and moved to New York City in 1984.
In 1992 Kitzke formed his performing group Mad Coyote. His music has also been performed by the Milwaukee Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, Essential Music, Present Music, Earplay, Zeitgeist, Guy Klucevsek, Margaret Leng Tan, and Kathleen Supove. Kitzke has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Music Center, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and BMI.
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