Mark Kilstofte is an American composer born in 1958. He attended St. Olaf College, where he was trained as a singer and also studied conducting and music composition. He earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan. His work incorporates earlier styles and compositional processes and often superimposes creative harmonic structures on lyric lines. Kilstofte has received numerous awards, including the Rome Prize, the Rudolf Nissim Award, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Charles Ives Scholarship, two Aaron Copland awards, and the Composers’ Award for String Quartet. He has also worked as a professor at Wayne State University and Furman University.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Mark Kilstofte
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Greenville, SC
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2007
Studios
Veltin
Mark Kilstofte worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…