Kenley Kristofferson

Region: Prairie

Publishers: C.L. Barnhouse, Eighth Note, Grand Mesa

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6eV06mVfCqnsx45GHV7Iw

SoundCloud channel: https://soundcloud.com/kenley-kristofferson/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KenleyKristofferson

Twitter profile: @kenley_k

Kenley Kristofferson is a composer for concert band, concert choir, symphony orchestra and video games. Growing up as a euphonium player in Gimli, Manitoba, he later went on to complete his B.Mus. and B.Ed. degrees from the University of Manitoba and became one of the music teachers at Lord Selkirk Comprehensive Secondary School in Selkirk, MB. In 2019, he completed his Master of Music in Composition from Brandon University, studying under Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré.

His work The Meeting Place won the 2016 Canadian Band Association Composition Competition (now the Howard Cable Memorial Prize in Composition). His music has been performed at the Midwest Band Clinic in Chicago and the Manitoba Music Educators' Association Conference (TEMPO), among others. It has been recorded by the Arizona State University Wind Orchestra, Barrett Choir, and Choral Union, the University of Northern Colorado Wind Ensemble, the Cleveland Winds, the University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble, and the Winnipeg Wind Ensemble.

He has written commercial work for video game franchises such as Betty Boop, Disney's DuckTales, KRE-O and Warhammer 40,000. The score for his short film on the early life of astronomer Carl Sagan, Star Stuff, was nominated for Best Original Score in the "Short" category in the 2016 International Sound and Film Music Festival in Croatia.

Kenley currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

(Eighth Note Publications)