Sound samples from compositions:
Broken Ground (Web page)
Chamber Symphony ( 7 MB, 12:22, .mp3)
Elegy (5.2 MB, 9:11, .mp3) and Affirmation (3.7 MB, 6:33, .mp3)
Fast Track (672k, 3:20, .mov )
Frolics: 1.Singing (2.3 MB 2:34), 2.Chops (2.4 MB 2:37), 3.Joke (1.5 MB 1:39), 4.Meditation (3.7 MB 4:02), 4.Jazz (3.2 MB 3:28), .mp3
Hyperbole (1.4 MB, 8:15, .mov)
Oh Millersville! (Web page)
 "Milking Time" from Rural Symphony (2.1 MB, 3:32, .mp3)
The Pale Queen of the Silent Night (2.4 MB, 4:16, .mp3) from Riverrun CD RVRCD62
Posthumous Orpheus (4.7 MB, 8:09, .mp3 from CapstoneCD CPS8787
Wake, Sweet Muse (256k,1:14, .mov)

Jonathan Chenette
Department of Music
Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA 50112-1690
chenet@grinnell.edu
Jonathan Chenette's (b. 1954) music has received international recognition, including performances on the ISCM World Music Days in Amsterdam, at the World Harp Congress in Vienna, at the Bishop Auckland Early Music Festival in the U.K., and on an NPR national broadcast by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. A resident of Iowa since 1983, Chenette is Associate Dean of the College at Grinnell College and Blanche Johnson Professor of Music in the Department of Music. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Iowa Composers Forum. His major choral-orchestral work Broken Ground, written in collaboration with six Iowa poets, premiered in 1996 on a concert of the Des Moines Symphony. Other major works include the opera Eric Hermannson's Soul (1993), the song cycle Oh Millersville! (1990), and the orchestral composition Chamber Symphony for 31 Instruments (1983). Recent works include Macapay for Latin American duo and orchestra, Frolics for oboe and English horn; Dvorak Variations for woodwind quintet; Elegy and Affirmation for cello and piano, a September 11 anniversary memorial composition commissioned as part of the Iowa Arts Council's "American Spirit" project; The Pale Queen of the Silent Night, for the London-based early music group Virelai; a collaboration with folk singer Bonnie Koloc on a choral-orchestral arrangement of her Love Song for Iowa; and Rural Symphony for the Fort Dodge Area Symphony commissioned by the Blanden Memorial Art Museum as Iowa's project in the national Continental Harmony program. Chenette received a PhD from the University of Chicago and grants or fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Iowa Arts Council, the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. His music is available on CD's from Boosey & Hawkes, Capstone, Fleur de Son Classics, Innova, and Riverrun labels.Several of his compositions are published by Boosey & Hawkes and Theodore Presser Publications (Merion Music Red Cedar Collection) and in a special "Music in the Midwest" issue of the Platte Valley Review (Spring 2002).

created by Jonathan Chenette, 6-12-96
last modified, 04/18/08