Prophecies premiered at the University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota School of Music recently announced that the winning work of the 2009 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize is "Prophecies" by Jonathan Kolm. This work will be premiered by the university’s Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mark Russell Smith at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 in Ted Mann Concert Hall, 2128 4th Street S., Minneapolis. Kolm, the Swan Composer Prizer winner, will attend dress rehearsals and the premiere performance. The $2,500 Swan Composer Prize will be awarded formally at the work’s premiere. Kolm’s works have been heard in the U.S. and abroad. He recently participated in the 2008 Vocal Essence/American Composers Forum workshop for new choral music. In 2007 the Young New Yorker’s Chorus premiered one of his commissioned works, and he won first place in the Austin Peay State Composition Competition. Crystal Fantasy, for violin, cello, flute and clarinet was performed at the Dallas Museum of Art where it won second place in the 2005 Voices of Change Composition Contest. His work for SATB chorus, Cedo Maiori, was premiered in October 2006 by the New York Virtuoso Singers at Columbia University. Kolm holds degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Texas at Austin and currently serves as assistant professor of music at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. As winner of the Swan Commission, he will be in residence at the U of M School of Music from December 7 through 9 at the University of Minnesota School of Music.