News from Jonathan Santore
- Opera News (December 2022) praises for Jonathan Santore's Two Letters of Sulpicia on Emily Jaworski Koriath and Tad Koriath: These Distances Between Us from Naxos Classical. Reviewer Joshua Rosenblum says "The mostly low-register synthesized sounds are remarkably effective in summoning the first century BCE author’s ancient world. Set to Santore’s own free translation, based on an earlier translation by James Grainger, both songs are by turns contemplative and ecstatic. Koriath is positively inflamed singing the rangy melismas on the word “burn” at the end of the second song, and wonderfully expressive in general." Read the whole review on the Opera News site (for subscribers) or on this PDF.
- Praise for Jonathan Santore's Two Letters of Sulpicia on Emily Jaworski Koriath and Tad Koriath: These Distances Between Us from Naxos Classical in Textura review, January 2023 -- "... synthetic textures that enhance the singing and expand arrestingly on the voice-and-piano arrangements of the other works. If anything, the combination of acoustic and electronic elements is one of the things that recommends the project most."
- Jonathan Santore named 2021 NAMM Foundation/CMS GenNext Fellow, July 2021
- Jonathan Santore one of three named composers honored by Calliope 1st Annual Call for Scores, May 2020
- "Person of Interest" collaborative exhibition at the Museum of the White Mountains, January 22 – February 15, 2019. Artists from multiple genres and media will share found objects and archival materials from a common source, as well as new individual and collaborative work created around/in response to those objects and materials. This collaborative exhibit features four PSU faculty members who are practicing artists: poet Liz Ahl , composer Jonathan Santore, ceramic artist Nick Sevigney, choreographer/dancer Amanda Whitworth, and sculptor Ray Ciemny (non-faculty).
- Schiller’s Spoons (2018) featured at Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, October 3-4, 2019
- Jonathan Santore Named Distinguished Scholar by Plymouth State University, June 14, 2018
- Faculty collaboration leads to a “Brilliant Being”, Plymouth Magazine, March 1, 2017
- The Inside Story: Jonathan Santore, March 8, 2017, PARMANEWS: Jonathan Santore, composer and educator at Plymouth State University, and recipient of numerous awards, including the American Prize and New Hampshire Composer of the Year, is releasing his debut solo album THERE ARE MANY OTHER LEGENDS on Navona Records ...
- “Brilliant Being.” New Hampshire Chronicle, WMUR-TV, Manchester, NH, October 14, 2016
- Interview with Jonathan Santore by Sean Hurley on New Hampshire Public Radio (September 13, 2013): "In 2006, Plymouth resident and PSU Music Professor Jonathan Santore was named New Hampshire Composer of the year. Just last month, he was awarded The American Prize in Choral Composition for 2013. As he tells NHPR's Sean Hurley, he's come a long way since playing trumpet for his high school marching band in Tennessee. ..."
- A Composer in the Community: Dr. Jonathan Santore, Taylor Community News, April 25, 2014
- Composer Jonathan Santore wins The American Prize 2013 (July 1, 2013)
- Professor Jonathan Santore wins PSU's award for distinguished scholarship (August 24, 2011)
- See also: Excellence 2011: Distinguished Plymouth State University Faculty and Staff (pp. 20-21)
- Composer Jonathan Santore Named a 2010 Individual Artist Fellow by the N.H. State Council on the Arts (September 16, 2009)
- Literary Inspiration by Julia Ann Weekes (NH Union Leader, April 17, 2008): "Stirring words of three Granite State writers serve as backdrop for composer Jonathan Santore's new works ..."