MKA's Svane Wins Choral Composition Competition

Congratulations to MKA’s Upper School Chorale Director Randall Svane for winning first prize in a choral composition competition sponsored by Saint Thomas Church and Choir School in New York City.

In December 2013, in honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Girl Chorister Course in Summer 2015, Saint Thomas Church and Choir School invited composers from around the world to create a new and unpublished setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis suitable for established girl or boy choir programs. Entries were received from 47 composers in 17 different states, as well as from Australia, Canada, the U.K. and Germany, and were presented anonymously to a panel of distinguished musicians,

Svanehas been active for the past 30 years as an organist, conductor, and teacher. His music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in Florence, the Munich Chamber Choir, the Schola Cantorum Leipzig, the Leipzig Vocal Ensemble, the Vratsa State Philharmonic in Bulgaria, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe's 20th Century Unlimited, the Minneapolis Artists Ensemble, and the Borromeo String Quartet. Svane’s achievements have been recognized through grants, prizes, and awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Astral Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.