Kallstrom

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. Click here to listen to BIG BANG from TELL YOUR NAME
STORIES was performed for the Huntington Summer Festival of
Music in Ontario, Canada. GHOSTS!! has been performed in Florida, Click here to listen to RAVEN from TELL YOUR NAME
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.

Michael Kallstrom was recently named Distinguished University Professor at
Western Kentucky University. He is the first professor
in the performing or visual arts to receive this distinction.

His compositions (click to see the latest updates) include chamber, orchestral and band works which have been
performed in the United States, Canada, Russia, Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Slovenia, the Czech Republic,
Italy, England, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Japan, the Dominican Republic and Kenya. Some of these works have been
released on compact discs by Centaur Records, Edizioni della Foundazione (www.lemur-music.com), Capstone Recordings, and
TAHQ (www.osmun.com). His music is published by RM Williams Publishing and Prairie Dawg Press.

He has recently been commissioned by the student chapters
of the National Band Association for a work for wind ensemble,
and is composed two new works that were premiered at the
Southeastern Horn Workshop in Georgia in February 2008.

My dear friend of some 25 years and former teacher, Roger Hannay, died in February 2006. He was a truly great American composer and musician. He will long be remembered by his family, friends, students, colleagues and anyone fortunate enough to have heard his music.