Kirsten Broberg

Kirsten Broberg (born April 16, 1979) is an American composer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet string quartet, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Ensemble, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Crossing choral ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente and the Jack Quartet string quartet. In 2013, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas.

Education

Broberg earned a doctorate in music composition in 2009 from Northwestern University in Chicago as a student of Augusta Read Thomas, Jay Alan Yim and Jason Eckardt. At Northwestern she also worked with Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail, Oliver Knussen and John Adams.[1] Broberg was the recipient of a Fromm Commissioning Grant from Harvard University in 2009.[2] Her dissertation An Analysis and Contextualization for Resonant Strands, a Cycle of Five Extractable Works for Piano, Bowed Piano and String Quartet analyzes Resonant Strands and provides a historical context for her work by discussing cycles including Carceri d'Invenzione by Brian Ferneyhough, Les Espaces Acoustiques by Gérard Grisey and Opening of the Mouth by Richard Barrett.[3]

Style and work

Broberg's music focuses on timbre, and blends spectral, neoromantic, minimalist and complexity trends. Broberg composes numerous cycles or series of extractable works including Resonant Strands for piano, bowed piano and string quartet; Origins for mixed winds and strings and the Waters of Time for soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello.

Broberg is the founder of the contemporary music organizations Ensemble Dal Niente[4] in Chicago and Ensemble 61 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.[5] While Broberg was the Executive Director of Ensemble Dal Niente the ensemble received a Kranichsteiner Stipendienpreise, during the 45th Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany.[4]

Her music has been released by Navona Records[6] and Innova Records.[7] She was the featured composer for the New Music Box "Spotlight Session" composer for the American Music Center in May 2009.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Kirsten Broberg". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Kirsten Broberg, Composer: Full Length Biography". Kirstenbroberg.com. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  3. ↑ Broberg, Kirsten (2009). An Analysis and Contextualization for Resonant Strands, a Cycle of Five Extractable Works for Piano, Bowed Piano and String Quartet. Northwestern University. p. 136.
  4. 1 2 "Ensemble Dal Niente". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Ensemble 61". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "Press Release: The Crossing winssecond ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming" (PDF). May 12, 2011. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  7. ↑ "Matthew McCright Elevates New Work from Midwestern Composers". Lucid Culture. 2010-09-15. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  8. ↑ "Kirsten Broberg in the Abstract". NewMusicBox. 2009-05-19. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
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