Composers Corner: Jake Runestad

Composers Corner: Jake Runestad

Join GRAMMY-nominated composer Jake Runestad as he discusses his creative and compositional processes, explores his latest works, and shares advice on poetic and musical interpretation.This event is the first in a series of Composers Corners, where you will have the possibility to meet the composer.

Jake Runestad is an award-winning and frequently-performed composer of “highly imaginative” (Baltimore Sun) and “stirring and uplifting” (Miami Herald) musical works. He has received commissions and performances from leading ensembles and organizations such as Washington National Opera, VOCES8, the Swedish Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Seraphic Fire, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philippine Madrigal Singers, and more. “The Hope of Loving,” the first album of Jake’s music, recorded by Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare, received a 2020 GRAMMY award nomination. Jake’s visceral music and charismatic personality have fostered a busy schedule of commissions, residencies, workshops, and speaking engagements, enabling him to be one of the youngest full-time composers in the world. Considered “one of the best of the younger American composers” (Chicago Tribune), Jake Runestad holds a Master’s degree in composition from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts, in addition to formative mentoring from acclaimed composer Libby Larsen. A native of Rockford, IL, Mr. Runestad is currently based in Minneapolis, MN. Find out more at: JakeRunestad.com

This event is a part of a series of events, where the aim is to offer the members of ICCF presentations and disseminations of new choral compositions in all genres. New music always needs support, and it is fitting for the ICCF to provide this alongside its ongoing commitment to the great riches of the choral repertoire of six centuries.