Dr. Jonathan Kolm

Dr. Jonathan Kolm is Assistant Professor of Music at Northern Virginia Community College-Alexandria and head of the keyboard and composition programs. His music has been performed across the United States and abroad and has won prizes in many national composition competitions. He is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Craig and Janet Swan Composition prize award by the University of Minnesota and the American Composers Forum for his orchestral work Prophecies which was premiered in Minneapolis conducted by Mark Russell Smith. Notice of this prize and performance was carried in the print edition of the USA Today and by the Associated Press. His work Terra Secundum was premiered in 2009 by the new music ensemble IonSound and hailed for being "fluent in its diversity" (Mark Kanny, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Classical Music Critic, 12/21/09). A review of his music was the subject of a July 2009 entry on the widely read Chamber Music Today blog. Concerning his award winning chamber piece Quantum Music, the author stated "The textures are interesting throughout, and the narrative arc is accessible and deeply moving." His choral music has been performed by many of the leading choruses in America, including the New York Virtuoso Singers, VocalEssence, the Princeton Singers, and the Young New Yorkers' Chorus. He performs as pianist in performances of new music throughout the United States.