Biography:

Randall Svane's distinguished and expressive music has captured the hearts and minds of audiences across the United States and Europe. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles Series, the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in Florence, the Vratsa Philharmonic in Bulgaria, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the Leipzig Vocal Ensemble, Santa Fe's Twentieth Century Unlimited, the Colonial Symphony, the Minneapolis Artists Ensemble, and the Borromeo String Quartet are just a few of those who have performed Svane's works to critical and public acclaim.

Svane's achievements have been recognized through grants, prizes, and awards from such organizations as ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Astral Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. His extensive catalogue includes orchestral, chamber, operatic, and choral works.

In a recent review in The Strad, critic Dennis Rooney had this to say about Svane's second string quartet: " A short Presto with pizzicato effects led to a slow finale that contained a fugal episode but was tinged throughout with the profound sadness of Shostakovich and the Richard Strauss of Metamorphosen. Svane knows how to entice the ear and to sustain interest."

Active for the past thirty years as an organist, conductor and teacher, Svane currently serves as Music Director for The Montclair Kimberley Academy located in Montclair, New Jersey and as Music Director/Organist for Christ Church Ridgewood, Ridgewood, New Jersey.

He was born in 1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1973 entered the Manhattan School of Music, where he earned a B.M. in organ performance. While pursuing organ studies, he studied composition and orchestration with Giampaolo Bracali. In 1978 Svane entered the composition program at New York University, where he worked with Paul Ramsier. He received his M.A. in 1980.