Classical Revolution RVA is delighted to announce the line-up for our Listen Local recital of music by composers living in the Richmond area! These composers applied for consideration to be CRRVA’s 2023-2024 Featured Composer, which will be chosen from these four and announced at the recital.
Our Listen Local composers are Krystal Folkestad, Ned Haskins, John Winn, and Anthony Burnham! Read their bios below.
Krystal Folkestad
The career of composer-pianist Dr. Krystal J. Folkestad, nee Grant, spans from giving lecture-recitals in elementary schools of her hometown, Birmingham, Alabama, to arranging and accompanying for a musical theater club at a senior center in Brooklyn, New York. Through her experience teaching in college classrooms, after-school programs, and a homeless shelter, she loves seeing how music can build community. She majored in piano performance and Spanish at Vanderbilt University. With her Ph.D. in composition from Stony Brook University, she has taught composition and music theory in Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia. She lives with her husband and son in Richmond, Virginia, where she creates an oasis of inclusivity within classical music by collaborating with performers and teachers to curate repertoire by underrepresented composers. https://arsarvole.com/
Ned Haskins
Ned Haskins, a Richmond native, is an instrumentalist, composer, producer, teacher, and web developer. He has taught and been an orchestral cellist and freelancer in Virginia, Florida, New Mexico, Colorado, Boston, and New York City. He returned to Richmond in 2012, where he currently manages and books events for Ninja Strings, a local collective of professional string players offering music for public and private events across the Eastern Seaboard, and is a substitute cellist with the Virginia Symphony. He has been involved in over a dozen central Virginia-area theatrical productions as a cellist, having performed with the Virginia Repertory Theatre, Capitol Opera Richmond, TheatreLAB, the Swift Creek Mill Theatre, and the Firehouse Theatre.
Ned holds a BM in cello performance from Florida State University, where he was a scholarship student of Lubomir Georgiev, Kim Jones, and Greg Sauer, and studied with and was the graduate teaching assistant of David Schepps at the University of New Mexico. He enjoys music of all kinds, gardening, chess, difficult hikes, and being outdoors in general. He has also previously taught and designed the curriculum for the upper grades math classes at the Richmond Waldorf School.
John Winn
John Winn is a composer and musician living in Richmond, Virginia. A former student of Allan
Blank and Doug Richards at VCU, he received his Master of Music degree in Composition in
1995. John has composed music for independent film, for jazz ensemble, Shakespeare plays and various chamber music configurations.
Mr. Winn’s string quartet The More Things Change… was commissioned in 2009 for the Oberon String Quartet and was premiered by that ensemble in Richmond. It was also programmed in 2016 as part of the summer chamber music festival Loon Lake Live! (Loon Lake/Saranac Lake, NY). John is also a songwriter and his song cycle Songs for Modern Times for string quartet and his own vocal has been recorded by LLL and performed numerous times.
John also maintains an active career as a performer in the jazz and pop/rock genres as well as musical theater pit orchestras.
Anthony Burnham
Anthony Burnham is an active composer, arranger, and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. Recently transplanted from Nebraska, Anthony studied music at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and earned his BM (Performance) and MM (Composition) degrees before beginning a ten-year music-teaching career in higher education.
Anthony has worked with performers at every level and has taught and performed with groups that have toured the United States and Europe. He has written and arranged music for many ensembles across the country and has been commissioned by high schools and professional ensembles alike. Anthony has found particular success in the world of the marching arts, where his groups have come first-in-class in regional indoor circuits, Best-of-Show at Drum Corps International’s Soundsport Championships, and fourth-in-class at the Winter Guard International World Championships. Many of these groups were formed from nonprofit organizations, prompting Anthony to pursue and earn a MS degree in Nonprofit Administration.
When not doing something musical, Anthony enjoys hiking, rock climbing, photography, and spending time with his partner, Sarah, and their menagerie of animals.