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Plymouth State University
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17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
Jonathan Santore
Associate Professor of MusicGraduate Program Coordinator for Music Education
Chair, Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Office phone number: (603) 535-2232
e-mail: jsantore@plymouth.edu
Administrative contact: Janice Johnson
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2621
Profile
Dr. Jonathan Santore is chair of the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance and professor of music theory and composition. Before joining the PSU faculty in 1994, Dr. Santore held teaching positions at Occidental College, California State University, Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota. An All-State trumpet player in high school, he began the formal study of composition as an undergraduate at Duke University. He holds an A.B., Magna cum laude with departmental distinction, in music from Duke, an M.M. in composition from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in music from the University of California, Los Angeles. Currently serving as Composer in Residence for the New Hampshire Master Chorale, Santore was a winner of the 1999 American Composers Forum Welcome Christmas! Carol Contest, and was also named New Hampshire Composer of the Year for 1999. Santore has won several other awards for his compositions, including Finalist in the 2005 NUVOVOX Choral Awards and the 2003 Wegmans/PMCP Band Composition Contest, Special Mention in the 2002 British Trombone Society/Brass in Association Composition Contest, Honorable Mention in the 2000 Britten-on-the-Bay Composition Competition, and performances at the New Hampshire Music Festival, the national conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Society of Composers, Inc., and the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest. His works have been performed by ensembles including Minnesota’s VocalEssence Chorus, the Choir of Rochester Cathedral, England, and the New York University Choral Arts Society, and have been broadcast regionally by Maine Public Radio and Television, and nationally by Public Radio International. He has conducted performances of his own compositions in the United States and Europe, and his works have been recorded by California’s Octagon New Music Ensemble and published by Walton Music Corporation, Gold Branch Music, Manduca Music Publications, and American Carillon Music Editions.
Dr. Santore is also active as a music theorist (with publications on 20th Century opera in The Opera Journal and forthcoming in In Theory Only) and as a conductor.
Degrees and Education
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
- M.M., University of Texas at Austin
- A.B., Duke University
