Kevin Siegfried

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Kevin Siegfried
Born1969
NationalityAmerican
OccupationComposer

Kevin Siegfried (born 1969) is an American composer. He has been composer-in-residence with the Capitol Hill Chorale since 2014, and teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. [1] [2]

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Life and career

Siegfried earned his bachelor's degree at Antioch College. He then attended the University of Iowa, where he received a master's degree in theory and composition; among his professors was Donald Martin Jenni. [3] He completed a doctorate in composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, where his instructors included Lee Hyla, Michael Gandolfi, and Daniel Pinkham. He also studied in France and in India, where he received a Stanley Fellowship to study South Indian classical music with Sriram Parasuram. [4] He has received grants and awards from ASCAP, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, among other organizations. He currently lives in Andover, Massachusetts. [1] At the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, he is a Professor of Theater, and Coordinator of Theory and New Works. In 2017, he was the winner of Berklee's Distinguished Faculty Award. [5]

Siegfried is especially noted for his work with the music of the Shakers, which he first encountered in 1995 during a visit to the Shaker village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. He has since produced many choral arrangements of Shaker songs, [6] and has composed a cantata, Angel of Light, for which they served as a basis. [1] He has been associated for some time with Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire, [7] [8] [9] and Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine, as of 2017 the home of the last living Shakers. [10] Siegfried's arrangements of Shaker music have been recorded by the Tudor Choir and the Dale Warland Singers. [11] [12] [13] He has also written works for the Nashua Symphony Orchestra in Nashua, New Hampshire. [14] [15]

Siegfried's music is published by G. Schirmer, [16] E. C. Schirmer, Earthsongs, MorningStar, and Trinitas. [17]

Works

Siegfried's works include: [18]

Selected choral works

Selected chamber music

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  2. ↑ CapitolHillChorale (13 May 2015). "CHC's Harmony of Angels: Composer-in-Residence Kevin Siegfried". Youtube.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016– via YouTube.
  3. ↑ The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras. Music Academy. 1996.
  4. ↑ "Bio". Kevinsiegfried.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Distinguished Faculty Awards - Berklee College of Music". www.berklee.edu. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Gentle words, kindly spoken" (PDF). Static1.squarespace.com. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  7. ↑ "Program Notes for Harmony of Angels". Capitolhillchorale.org. 2015-06-25. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "'Simple Gifts' concert series at Canterbury Shaker Village continues on June 13 with composer/arranger Kevin Siegfried". Laconiadaislysun.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "Old Time Christmas at Canterbury Shaker Village this Saturday". 949whom.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "Maine Festival of American Music – Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village" . Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  11. ↑ "Gentle Words: Shaker Songs Arranged by Kevin Siegfried – Tudor Choir – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  12. ↑ "Recordings :: The Tudor Choir". Tudorchoir.org. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  13. ↑ "Harvest Home Dale Warland Singers" . Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  14. ↑ ""The Trumpets Shall Sound..." with the Nashua Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and trumpet soloists Richard Watson and Eric Berlin". Fosters.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  15. ↑ "Nashua Symphony Orchestra to Tour State With "Made in New Hampshire" Program" (PDF). Amherstcitizen.com. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  16. ↑ "I Hunger and Thirst". Kevinsiegfried.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  17. ↑ "Siegfried, Kevin". Ecspublishing.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  18. ↑ "Featured Works" . Retrieved 22 January 2017.
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