Jonathan Santore

Dr. Jonathan Santore is chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance and professor of music theory and composition at Plymouth State University. Before joining the PSU faculty in 1994, Dr. Santore held teaching positions at Occidental College, California State University, Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota. An All–State trumpet player in high school, he began the formal study of composition as an undergraduate at Duke University. He holds an A.B., Magna cum laude with departmental distinction, in music from Duke, an M.M. in composition from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Los Angeles. Santore is currently serving as Composer–in–Residence for the New Hampshire Master Chorale, which received a "Best in NH 2008" award from New Hampshire Magazine for his compositions setting texts with strong New Hampshire connections.ý He was a winner of the 1999 American Composers Forum Welcome Christmas! Carol Contest, and was also named New Hampshire Composer of the Year in 1999 and 2006. Santore has won several other awards for his compositions, including Second Prize in the 2007 University of South Carolina Choral Composition Contest, Finalist in the 2005 NUVOVOX Choral Awards and the 2003 Wegmans/PMCP Band Composition Contest, Special Mention in the 2002 British Trombone Society/Brass in Association Composition Contest, Honorable Mention in the 2000 Britten–on–the–Bay Composition Competition, and performances at the New Hampshire Music Festival, the national conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Society of Composers, Inc., and the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest. His works have been performed by professional ensembles including Minnesota's VocalEssence Chorus, the Choir of Rochester Cathedral, England, and Austinýs Conspirare (on a National Endowment for the Arts American Masterworks Festival), and have been broadcast regionally by Maine Public Radio and Television, and nationally by Public Radio International. He has conducted performances of his own compositions in the United States and Europe, and his works have been recorded by California's Octagon New Music Ensemble and published by Alliance Music Publications (forthcoming), Yelton Rhodes Music (forthcoming), Walton Music Corporation, Gold Branch Music, Manduca Music Publications, and American Carillon Music Editions.

Dr. Santore is also active as a music theorist (with publications on 20th Century opera in The Opera Journal and In Theory Only) and as a conductor.

Education: AB, Duke University; MM, University of Texas at Austin; PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

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