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Occupation(s)
  
Composer and Conductor

Website
  
jakerunestad.com

Role
  
Composer

Years active
  
2004–present

Name
  
Jake Runestad

Genres
  
Classical music


Born
  
May 20, 1986 (age 37) Rockford, Illinois, United States (
1986-05-20
)

Similar People
  
Seraphic Fire, VocalEssence, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Craig Hella Johnson, Philip Brunelle

Music of Jake Runestad


Jake Runestad (born 20 May 1986) is an American composer of classical music, conductor, singer, and clinician centered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has composed music for a wide variety of musical genres and ensembles, but has achieved greatest acclaim for his work in the genres of opera, orchestral music, and choral music.

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Biography

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Runestad was born in Rockford, Illinois. His post-secondary education in music began at Eastern Illinois University, which he attended in the years 2004 and 2005. He received his first degree in music (a B.S. in Music Education) from Winona State University, which he attended from 2005 until 2009, then pursued graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University between 2009 and 2011 to earn a M.Mus. degree in music composition. His teachers at the Peabody Conservatory included Kevin Puts. He has also studied with the composer Libby Larsen and worked with Bernard Rands, David Lang, Tania Leon, John Musto, Christopher Rouse, Jake Heggie, and John Duffy.

Awards and activities

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Runestad has received awards for his compositions from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Composers Forum, the Peabody Conservatory, New Music USA, the Otto Bremmer Foundation, VocalEssence, the Virginia Arts Festival, the National Association for Music Education, the Association for Lutheran Church Musicians, and the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota, and has received commissions for his musical works from the Washington National Opera, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, the Spire Chamber Ensemble, the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare. He has also been chosen as Composer in residence for the 2015-2016 season of Choral Arts.

Runestad's compositions have received notices in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and other newspapers. His music has been published by Boosey & Hawkes and JR Music.

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On Veterans Day, 11 November 2013, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, and pianist Jeffrey Biegel, under the direction of James Paul, presented Runestad's Dreams of the Fallen, a work for piano, orchestra, and chorus at the National World War II Museum. The work features the poetry of Iraq War veteran Brian Turner and explores a soldier's emotional response to the experience of war.

Dreams of the Fallen was commissioned by a consortium including the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey, and the Virginia Arts Festival.

Discography

  • "I Will Lift Mine Eyes" on Seraphic Fire. Seraphic Fire. Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor. ℗ 2013 Seraphic Fire Media.
  • "Nada Te Turbe" on Sheer Grace, National Lutheran Choir. David Cherwien, conductor. ℗ 2013 The National Lutheran Choir.
  • "Fear Not, Dear Friend" on Reincarnations. Seraphic Fire. Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor. ℗ 2014 Seraphic Fire Media.
  • "I Will Lift Mine Eyes" on Look Up and See. Sounding Light. Tom Trenney, conductor. ℗ 2014.
  • "Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep" on Candlelight Carols. Seraphic Fire. Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor. ℗ 2014 Seraphic Fire Media.

    • Principal Compositions

    Operas

  • The Toll (2010), premiered at the Peabody Conservatory, Friedberg Hall, 4 May 2010.
  • The Abbess and the Acolyte (2011), premiered at the Virginia Arts Festival, 12 June 2011.
  • Daughters of the Bloody Duke (2014), premiered at the Washington National Opera on 21 November 2014.

    • Orchestral Works

  • "As Rain to the Sea" (2010, soprano soloist with orchestra)
  • "Mechanical Minds" (2011)
  • "Dreams of the Fallen" (2013, solo piano, chorus, and orchestra)

    • Choral Works

  • "Nyon, Nyon" (2006, SATB)
  • "I Will Lift Mine Eyes" (2006, SATB)
  • "Vocalise Mystique" (2009, SATB)
  • "Lux Aeterna" (2011, SSAA)
  • "Fear Not, Dear Friend" (2012, SATB or TTBB)
  • "Nada Te Turbe" (2012, SATB)
  • "Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep" (2012, SATB with piano)
  • "Alleluia" (2013, SATB)
  • "Dereva Ni Mungu" (2013, SATB, percussion, piano)
  • "The King of Love" (2013, SATB and piano)
  • "None Other Lamb" (2013, SATB and piano)
  • "Peace Flows Into Me" (2013, SATB and piano)
  • "The Peace of Wild Things" (2014, SATB and piano)
  • "Spirited Light" (2014, SATB)
  • "We Can Mend the Sky" (2014, SATB and percussion)
  • "Why the Caged Bird Sings" (2014, SATB)
  • "A Prayer" (2014, SATB)

    • Jazz Ensemble

  • "Home" (2008)

    • Wind Ensemble

  • "Catalyst" (2007)

    • Voice and Piano

  • "How Can I Keep from Singing?" (2011)

    • Voice and Chamber Ensemble

  • "Under the Harvest Moon" (2009, soprano, cello, and piano)
  • "The Soul, Like the Moon" (2011, soprano and Pierrot ensemble)

    • References

    Jake Runestad Wikipedia
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