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“Her music has been described as haunting, stunning, and picturesque—even ineffable. It casts a spell on us that leaves time behind, taking us into a different kind of present, a different kind of now (Alison Young, Minnesota Public Radio).” The music of Minnesota native Kirsten Soriano Broberg has been performed by internationally recognized ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Crossing Contemporary Choir, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Jack Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, the New Millennium Orchestra, the Sonic Inertia Dance and Performance Group, Third Coast Percussion, the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Olaf Philharmonia Orchestra and the SUNY Stony Brook Chamber Players. Her music has been heard at events such as Nuovi Spazi Festival at the American Academy in Rome, Italy; the Ensems Festival for Contemporary Music in Valencia, Spain; Sonic Fusion Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland; the International Contemporary Ensemble New York and Chicago ICE Fests; the June in Buffalo Festival in Buffalo, New York; Sonic Impact at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois; Electronic Music Midwest Conference in Chicago, Illinois; the Sound Field New and Experimental Music Festival in Chicago, Illinois, and the Opera Cabal Multimedia Festival in Chicago, Illinois.
Among Broberg's honors are the receiving the Fromm Foundation Commissioning Grant from Harvard University, the "Composer Choice" award from Symphony No. One, three Encore Grants from the American Composers Forum, winning, two William T. Faricy Awards at Northwestern University, three Wyatt fund grants from Northwestern University, first place in the Accent '04 International Call for String Quartets at Cincinnati Conservatory, first place in the University of Minnesota Call for Orchestral Scores and being selected for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. Broberg earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music theory/composition and a minor in creative writing from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in 2001; a Master of Arts in music composition from the University of Minnesota in 2003; and graduated with honors with a doctorate in music composition at Northwestern University. Her primary composition instructors at Northwestern University included Augusta Read Thomas, Jason Eckardt and Jay Alan Yim. She also studied music composition privately with Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail and Philippe Hurel in France in summer 2013.
Minnesota Public Radio's Alison Young featured her music in a broadcast and live interview entitled "Kirsten Broberg gets her Big Break" in 2013. Trevor Hunter with the American Music Center released the article and radio broadcast, "Kirsten Broberg in the Abstract" in 2009. Broberg's solo piano piece, "Constellations," recorded by Matthew McCright, was released by Innova Records in May 2009; her choir piece “Breathturn,” recorded by conductor Donald Nally and the Crossing Contemporary Choir was released by Parma/Navona records 2011. Her suite, “Color and Texture” for chamber ensemble, recorded by TrioPoliis will be released by Fleur de Son Classics in 2017 and her Resonant Strands and Dream-Paths cycles will be released in 2018.
A passionate entrepreneur and administrator, she is the founding composer of the internationally-renowned group, Ensemble Dal Niente, and served as the Executive Director for its formative years (2004-2010), during which time the ensemble won a Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt Festival for New Music. She has twice adjudicated the Aaron Copland Recording Grant fund and has served as a judge for the New Music USA grants, the American Composers Forum’s Encore Grant, Meet the Composer’s Cary New Music Performance Fund and the University of Houston’s Composition Contest. At the University of North Texas, she has served on the Faculty Advisory Committee, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, the Presser Award Committee, on the Phi Kappa Lamba Scholarship Committee, the Presser Award Committee, as the Secretary for Phi Kappa Lamba and an advisor to students entering the Music Entrepreneurship Contest. Broberg was also the President of the Northwestern University Graduate Music Organization from 2005-2008, the Music Composition Chair for the 2005 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium and has served on the Board of Directors for New Music Chicago, the Steering Committee for the Chicago Composers Forum and on the 2006 Northwestern University New Music Marathon planning committee.
An accomplished educator, Broberg has taught undergraduate through graduate level music theory, composition, contemporary music, form and analysis, counterpoint, music history, world music, popular music, jazz music, song writing and music production at institutions such as Northwestern University in Chicago, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Saint Olaf College in Northfield. Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, North Park University in Chicago and the Art Institutes International in Minneapolis.
Broberg holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois where she was a student of Augusta Read Thomas, Jay Alan Yim and Jason Eckardt (2009). She also studied music composition privately with Kaija Sarah, Tristan Murail and Philippe Hurel in France in 2013. Kirsten Broberg is currently an Assistant Professorship in Music Composition in the College of Music at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas where she teaches private composition lessons, composition seminars, music since 1945, music since 2000, contemporary vocal writing and text setting. She lives with her husband Miguel and dogs, Charlie and Sheldon, on a small lake the in Dallas-Fort Worth area where she enjoys jogging, cycling, yoga, cooking and gardening.
Among Broberg's honors are the receiving the Fromm Foundation Commissioning Grant from Harvard University, the "Composer Choice" award from Symphony No. One, three Encore Grants from the American Composers Forum, winning, two William T. Faricy Awards at Northwestern University, three Wyatt fund grants from Northwestern University, first place in the Accent '04 International Call for String Quartets at Cincinnati Conservatory, first place in the University of Minnesota Call for Orchestral Scores and being selected for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. Broberg earned a Bachelor of Music degree in music theory/composition and a minor in creative writing from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota in 2001; a Master of Arts in music composition from the University of Minnesota in 2003; and graduated with honors with a doctorate in music composition at Northwestern University. Her primary composition instructors at Northwestern University included Augusta Read Thomas, Jason Eckardt and Jay Alan Yim. She also studied music composition privately with Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail and Philippe Hurel in France in summer 2013.
Minnesota Public Radio's Alison Young featured her music in a broadcast and live interview entitled "Kirsten Broberg gets her Big Break" in 2013. Trevor Hunter with the American Music Center released the article and radio broadcast, "Kirsten Broberg in the Abstract" in 2009. Broberg's solo piano piece, "Constellations," recorded by Matthew McCright, was released by Innova Records in May 2009; her choir piece “Breathturn,” recorded by conductor Donald Nally and the Crossing Contemporary Choir was released by Parma/Navona records 2011. Her suite, “Color and Texture” for chamber ensemble, recorded by TrioPoliis will be released by Fleur de Son Classics in 2017 and her Resonant Strands and Dream-Paths cycles will be released in 2018.
A passionate entrepreneur and administrator, she is the founding composer of the internationally-renowned group, Ensemble Dal Niente, and served as the Executive Director for its formative years (2004-2010), during which time the ensemble won a Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt Festival for New Music. She has twice adjudicated the Aaron Copland Recording Grant fund and has served as a judge for the New Music USA grants, the American Composers Forum’s Encore Grant, Meet the Composer’s Cary New Music Performance Fund and the University of Houston’s Composition Contest. At the University of North Texas, she has served on the Faculty Advisory Committee, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, the Presser Award Committee, on the Phi Kappa Lamba Scholarship Committee, the Presser Award Committee, as the Secretary for Phi Kappa Lamba and an advisor to students entering the Music Entrepreneurship Contest. Broberg was also the President of the Northwestern University Graduate Music Organization from 2005-2008, the Music Composition Chair for the 2005 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium and has served on the Board of Directors for New Music Chicago, the Steering Committee for the Chicago Composers Forum and on the 2006 Northwestern University New Music Marathon planning committee.
An accomplished educator, Broberg has taught undergraduate through graduate level music theory, composition, contemporary music, form and analysis, counterpoint, music history, world music, popular music, jazz music, song writing and music production at institutions such as Northwestern University in Chicago, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Saint Olaf College in Northfield. Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University in Chicago, University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, North Park University in Chicago and the Art Institutes International in Minneapolis.
Broberg holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois where she was a student of Augusta Read Thomas, Jay Alan Yim and Jason Eckardt (2009). She also studied music composition privately with Kaija Sarah, Tristan Murail and Philippe Hurel in France in 2013. Kirsten Broberg is currently an Assistant Professorship in Music Composition in the College of Music at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas where she teaches private composition lessons, composition seminars, music since 1945, music since 2000, contemporary vocal writing and text setting. She lives with her husband Miguel and dogs, Charlie and Sheldon, on a small lake the in Dallas-Fort Worth area where she enjoys jogging, cycling, yoga, cooking and gardening.
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