词条 | Jake Runestad |
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| name = Jake Runestad | image = | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|05|20|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Rockford, Illinois, United States | origin = | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Classical | occupation = Composer and Conductor | instrument = | years_active = 2004–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = jakerunestad.com }} Jake Runestad (born 20 May 1986) is an American composer of classical music and conductor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has composed music for a wide variety of musical genres and ensembles, but has achieved greatest acclaim for his work in the genres of opera, orchestral music, choral music, and wind ensemble. One of his principal collaborators for musical texts has been the poet Todd Boss. BiographyRunestad was born in Rockford, Illinois.[1] His post-secondary education in music began at Eastern Illinois University, which he attended in the years 2004 and 2005. He received his first degree in music (a B.S. in Music Education) from Winona State University, which he attended from 2005 until 2009, then pursued graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University between 2009 and 2011 to earn a M.Mus. degree in music composition. His teachers at the Peabody Conservatory included Kevin Puts. He has also studied with the composer Libby Larsen and worked with Bernard Rands, David Lang, Tania León, John Musto, Christopher Rouse, Jake Heggie, and John Duffy. He received a Distinguished Young Alumni Award from Winona State University in 2016.[2] Awards and activitiesRunestad has received awards for his compositions from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Composers Forum, the Peabody Conservatory, New Music USA, the Otto Bremmer Foundation, VocalEssence, the Virginia Arts Festival, the National Association for Music Education, the Association for Lutheran Church Musicians, and the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota, and has received commissions for his musical works from the Washington National Opera, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, the Spire Chamber Ensemble, the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare. He was also chosen as a Composer in residence for the 2015-2016 season of Choral Arts. In 2016, he was a recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Award from the ASCAP Foundation in recognition of his composition Dreams of the Fallen.[3] In May 2017, he was awarded a McKnight Fellowship for Composers (funded by the McKnight Foundation).[4] and more recently was awarded the 2019 Raymond W. Brock Commission of the American Choral Directors Association, in this case for the composition "A Silence Haunts Me."[5] Runestad's compositions have received notices in the New York Times,[6] the Huffington Post,[7] and other newspapers.[8] The Chicago Tribune has referred to him as "one of the best of the younger American composers."[9] His music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes and JR Music. The first recording devoted solely to the music of Jake Runestad has been announced by the choral ensemble Conspirare of Austin, Texas.[10] The title of the album will be The Hope of Loving. Dreams of the FallenOn Veterans Day, 11 November 2013, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, and pianist Jeffrey Biegel, under the direction of James Paul, presented Runestad's Dreams of the Fallen, a work for piano, orchestra, and chorus at the National World War II Museum.[11][12] The work features the poetry of Iraq War veteran Brian Turner[13] and explores a soldier's emotional response to the experience of war.[12] Dreams of the Fallen was commissioned by a consortium including the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey, and the Virginia Arts Festival.[14] It received its New York City premiere with the West Point Glee Club and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at Carnegie Hall on 19 November 2016, conducted by David Bernard.[15] It received its Chicago premiere with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and the Wicker Park Choral Singers on 5 May 2018.[16]An audio recording of a 2015 performance of Dreams of the Fallen in St. Paul, Minnesota, was broadcast nationwide on 29 May 2017 (Memorial Day) through the National Public Radio network.[17] Discography
Principal CompositionsOperas
References1. ^Biographical information about Jake Runestad is collected on the website jakerunestad.com. 2. ^ Winona State University News, September 30, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017. 3. ^https://www.ascap.com/press/2016/04-01-morton-gould-winners.aspx 4. ^This award was announced on 31 May 2017: see List of 2017 McKnight Fellowship awards 5. ^See Interview with Jonathan Talberg for the American Choral Directors Association. 6. ^Jake Runestad's work Dreams of the Fallen is featured in an article of 7 June 2012: see Interview with Jake Runestad. 7. ^Another notice about Dreams of the Fallen is found in an article of 11 August June 2013: see Notice about Jake Runestad's Dreams of the Fallen. 8. ^The website jakerunestad.com contains a complete listing of press notices concerning the composer's major works. 9. ^See Notice about Jake Runestad's Dreams of the Fallen. 10. ^See Conspirare announcement of The Hope of Loving. 11. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYlODg3kMPk 12. ^1 "World Premier! - Dreams of the Fallen", Piano World, In-Tune. October 2013. 13. ^"Composer Jake Runestad's Dreams of the Fallen -- A Veterans Day Happening at the National WWII Museum", Sean Martinfield, HuffPost Arts & Culture. November 8, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014. 14. ^"Dreams of the Fallen, Participating Ensembles". Retrieved May 12, 2014. 15. ^See , Peter Danish, Broadway World. Retrieved January 1, 2017. 16. ^See Chicago Composers Orchestra website. Retrieved May 7, 2018. 17. ^See VocalEssence website 18. ^"Seraphic Fire, Recordings". Retrieved May 12, 2014. 19. ^"National Lutheran Choir, Sheer Grace". Retrieved May 12, 2014. 20. ^See Many Voices, One Song recordings. 21. ^1 "Seraphic Fire, Recordings". Retrieved November 12, 2014. 22. ^[https://choralartsnw.org/wordpress/product/carol-of-the-angels/ "Choral Arts Northwest store"]. Retrieved May 7, 2018. 23. ^[https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/AV%202377/ "Chandos Records"]. Retrieved May 7, 2018. 24. ^"Master Chorale of Tampa Bay store". Retrieved May 7, 2018. 25. ^Reviews of Daughters of the Bloody Duke are available from the Communities Digital News and The Washington Post: "Bloody Politics 2014", December 5, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2014, and [https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/at-washington-national-opera-20-minute-operas-are-on-the-right-track/2014/11/23/b1b8ba80-7351-11e4-9c9f-a37e29e80cd5_story.html "At Washington National Opera, 20-Minute Operas are on the Right Track"], November 23, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2014. External links
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