HOME      ABOUT US        COMPOSERS       RECORDINGS        DEALERS       CONTACT US   JONATHON SANTORE     Jonathon Santore is an Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. He holds academic degrees from Duke University, The University of Texas at Austin, and UCLA. He taught at Occidental College, California State University-Los Angeles, and the University of Minnesota.    Selected as a winner in the 1999 American Composers Forum Welcome Christmas Carol Contest, Santore was also named New Hampshire Composer of the Year, 1999. He has won several other awards, fellowships, and scholarships for his compositions, including performances at the New Hampshire Music Festival, the national conferences of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Society of Composers, Inc, and twice at the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest.     His works have been performed by ensembles including Minnesota's Plymouth Music Series 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. Recent commissions include choral works on texts by the American poet Frank O'Hara for Corning West High School in New York, and on Korean and Vietnamese texts for the 2002 Asia tour of the New Hampshire Friendship Chorus. His works have been recorded by California's Octagon New Music Ensemble. He is published by Manduca Music, Walton Music Corporation, and American Carillon Music Editions.