Biography

Jonathan Sokol has been recognized with an Honorable Mention in the 32nd annual ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize (2012); with an Honorable Mention in the Sioux City Symphony Composer of the Year contest (2011); as a finalist in the New York Youth Symphony First Music Composer Competition (2011); has been named a recipient of an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award (2010) and an ASCAPlus Award (2010, 2011); has won the 2nd annual MAYO Composition Contest (2010); was a Finalist in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest (2009); was a winning participant in the Indiana University/Bloomington Schools Kids Compose! project (2008); has won the Indiana University Kuttner String Quartet composition competition (2007); has received a Susan and Ford Schumann Scholarship for the Aspen Music Festival and School (2007); and was the winner of the 8th annual NEC/BMOP ConNECtion competition (2005).

His music has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Bloomington and Kokomo Symphony Orchestras, and the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, as well as read by members of the Cleveland Orchestra. He has received international performances in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and Brazil, and commissions from Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, the Zzyzx Saxophone Quartet, the Baldwin-Wallace College Men's Chorus, and the Miklos Quartet.

An avid trombonist and performer, Sokol has appeared at numerous venues in the greater Cleveland, Chicago, Boston and Bloomington areas, and was principal trombone of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (2009 - 2011). He studied with Allen Kofsky at Baldwin-Wallace, and completed a Doctoral Minor in trombone performance at Indiana University with Carl Lenthe.

Sokol received his Doctorate in music composition at Indiana University's Jacobs School of music, where he was a doctoral fellow and Associate Instructor. His principal teachers were Sven-David Sandström, Michael Gandolfi, Claude Baker and P. Q. Phan. He holds a Masters degree in composition from New England Conservatory, where he studied with Michael Gandolfi and graduated with Honors and Distinction in Performance. His Bachelors was completed at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music as a student of the College's composer-in-residence, Loris Chobanian. Additionally, he has studied with Sydney Hodkinson at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is currently Adjunct Faculty teaching music theory and music appreciation at Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio.

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