Mark Kilstofte

Mark Kilstofte
http://facweb.furman.edu/~mkilstofte/

Title: The White Album
Commission: 2006
Completed: 2012
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: January 7, 2017 in Houston TX
Premiere Ensemble: Musique Inc.
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Mark Kilstofte is admired as a composer of lyrical line, engaging harmony, strong, dramatic gesture and keen sensitivity to sound, shape and event. Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “exciting and beautiful, consistently gripping,” his music has garnered a growing number of awards and honors including the Rome Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nissim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Aaron Copland Award (three times) and the Gardner Read and Francis & William Schuman Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony. He has also earned commissions from the Dale Warland Singers and the Fromm Foundation. His music, performed regularly throughout the United States and Canada, has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and is heard in concert halls from Moscow to Bangkok.