Michael Kallstrom is an active composer and performer, and the creator of ELECTRIC OPERA, a series of five, solo vocal works with electronic tape, puppets and videos that have been performed over 200 times in the United States and Canada for colleges and universities, festivals and concert series, public schools and churches. The first three works, STORIES, STAINED LIGHT, and INTO THE DEEP were performed for the Banners Series in Louisiana, where the composer was artist-in-residence for a week, giving concerts, university workshops, and public school demonstrations. STORIES was performed for the Huntington Summer Festival of Music in Ontario, Canada. GHOSTS!! has been performed in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, for the Society of Composers National Conference at Indiana University, and was featured during a week-long residency with Georgia public schools. The residency was funded by a grant from the Oscar Jonas Foundation. A children's opera, SCHOOL'S OUT, was commissioned and premiered by McNeill Elementary School as part of musical residency with the school. The most recent work, TELL ME YOUR NAME, has been performed in Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana, Florida and Alabama (new photos posted).
Click here to listen to RAVEN from TELL YOUR NAME
His ballet score, FRANKENSTEIN, was premiered by the Fort Wayne Ballet in September 2002 and was produced again in 2003.FORWARD DRIVE, an electronic score, was choreographed and premiered in Atlanta at Emory University for the American College Dance Festival in March 2004. The TransAtlantic Horn Quartet commissioned and premiered STARFLAME in London, England and also performed it for the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival and the Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears Music Festival. The Quartet also commissioned and premiered HEADBANGER. The Macon Symphony and the TransAtlantic Horn Quartet premiered JEEPERS, for horn quartet and string orchestra. And SOULS MADE OF MUSIC, for bass voice and horn quartet, was premiered by Kallstrom and the TAHQ for the International Horn Society.
As a Commissioned Western Kentucky University Centennial Composer, his work for soprano and orchestra, ONE SONG FAR AWAY, was commissioned by Dr. and Mrs. Allan Pribble and was premiered by the Bowling Green-Western Symphony in April 2006 (click here to see the centennial composers).
He has recently been commissioned by the student chapters of the National Band Association for a work for solo voices and wind ensemble, and is composing two new works to be premiered at the Southeastern Horn Workshop in Georgia in February 2008.
Click here to listen to SOLO NECESITAS EL AMOR, trio for violin, 'cello and piano, movment I
Click here to listen to SOLO NECESITAS EL AMOR, trio for violin, 'cello and piano, movement II
Click here to listen to SOLO NECESITAS EL AMOR, trio for violin, 'cello and piano, movement III
Michael Kallstrom has won prizes in the Alienor International Harpsichord Composition Contest, the Composers Guild of New Jersey New Works Competition, the James Madison University Flute Choir Composition Contest, the McNeese State University Composer's Competition, and the North Carolina Concerto Competition. He has received a Meet the Composer grant, three Kentucky Arts Council Fellowships, A Ragdale Foundation Residency, a Ucross Foundation Residency, an Interarts Colony Residency, a University Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research/Creative Activity, and has twice been the Kentucky Music Teachers Association/MTNA Commissioned Composer of the Year.
Michael Kallstrom
is currently Professor of Music and Coordinator of Composition and
Theory
at Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green), and has taught
previously
at Westminster
Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and Florida A&M University
(Tallahassee).
He holds degrees in Composition from the Florida State University
(D.M.),
the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.M.), and the University of Miami,
FL(B.M.).
He has studied composition with Roger Hannay and John Boda.
MICHAEL KALLSTROM
Department of Music
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101
270-745-5400, office
270-745-6855, fax
email: michael.kallstrom@wku.edu
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Last update: April 16, 2008
