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"stunning and picturesque (Bryant Manning,
Chicago Classical Review)" "the allurement of her music ... presents to the listener
a rich canvas ... like an abstract visual ... it evokes itself. It totally embraces the most fundamentally ineffable qualities
of music (Trevor Hunter, American Music Center)"
 a b o u t The music of internationally performed American composer Kirsten Broberg has been performed or commissioned by leading ensembles and performers around the world. As one of the most prolific and active composers of her generation, she writes music for solo to large ensemble acoustic instruments and voices, music for theater, fim music and expansive cycles of extractable works. The article and radio broadcast, "Kirsten Broberg in the Abstract," by Trevor Hunter was released by the American Music Center for their New Music Box and Counterstream Radio "Spotlight Session" in May 2009 Kirsten Broberg
was awarded a Jerome Commissioning Grant from the American Composers Forum to compose a new chamber opera for soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw, three treble voices and baroque pit orchestra u p c o m i n g p e r f o r m a n c e s “s o c l o s e” for soprano and piano, and “i w a n t” for soprano and piano trio ( text, Pablo Neruda) performed
Amanda DeBoer by Ensemble Dal Niente at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio in April 2010 “R E S O N A N T S T R A N D S” cycle for piano, bowed piano and string quartet; “O R I G I N S” cycle for mixed winds and strings, the “W A T E R S O F T I M E” cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble (text, Pablo Neruda) performed by the Ai Ensemble in New York City in May 17,
2009 “S O N G S O F L O N G I N G” (text, Sappho)
for soprano, treble voices and baroque pit orchestra premiered by Carrie Henneman Shaw in Saint Paul, Minnesota in May 2010
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