Svane receives ASCAPLUS Award

Montclair Kimberley Academy Director of Instrumental and Vocal Music Randall Svane has recently received a 2008-09 ASCAPLUS (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Concert Music Award for his work as a composer.

Judged by JoAnn Falletta, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony Orchestras, H. Robert Reynolds, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan and Steve Smith, music editor of Time Out NY and classical music critic for The New York Times, these awards are presented to composers whose work has enjoyed significant performances around the world, been the subject of recent recordings or of significant commissions.

Svan’es music was featured in several European concerts this year, including the European premiere of his original composition, a Mass entitled Missa Festiva, at the Salzburg Dom Cathedral in front of an audience of 10,000  (the first time that an American composer had both a premiere there and been present for it.)   In December 2009, Svane’s latest choral work “Antiphons of the Angels”, commissioned by the city of Leipzig, Germany, will have its world premiere in the St. Niccolaikirche in Leipzig.