Kristopher Magnuson

Biography

Kristopher Magnuson is a composer from Cleveland, OH. Recent works have seen (or are scheduled to see) performances at the AMOK Experimental Music Platform in York, UK; the Sound Thought Festival in Glasgow, Scotland; the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto, Canada; and the SoundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy. He has also completed works for guitarist Rob MacDonald in affiliation with the Canadian Music Centre, the Genkin Philharmonic at SUNY Buffalo, and multiple electronic works for the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival.

His Palos for string quartet, based on flamenco song forms, won first prize in the University of Toronto String Quartet Composition Competition, and received its world premiere with the Cecilia Quartet at the 2015 University of Toronto New Music Festival. He received his DMA in composition from the University of Toronto in 2018, where he studied with Gary Kulesha. His dissertation, Gambier Mass, was scored for winds, percussion, electric guitar & delay pedal, and men’s chorus. Future works will largely focus on melding the art/alt-rock aesthetic with traditional notions of lieder.