TJ Cole (born 1993)
TJ Cole (who prefers a pronoun of “they”) is originally from the suburbs of Atlanta. They received their Bachelor’s degree in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music and studied at Interlochen Arts Academy.
TJ Cole has composed music for orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs, solo violin, solo percussion, and sometimes combines live performance with pre-recorded audio.
TJ Cole’s elegiac Death of the Poet, a 2014 composition for string orchestra was inspired by Conrad Felixmüller’s 1925 expressionist painting Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner whose death at the age of 30 seems to have been hastened by substance abuse.
To the Universe is a 2018 orchestral work commissioned to the honor the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s 125th Anniversary Season: