of “Three Songs About the Resurrection” won first prize at the Geneva International Competition. “Sound Portraits”, a collection of his vocal works featuring soprano Linda Ferraira, is recorded by Capstone. “The Violinist in the Mall” won the 2005 Friends and Enemies of New Music competition. He often uses his own texts. but has also collaborated with American hymn-poet Richard Leach and the English poet Jenny Joseph.
2011 performances included “Let’s Talk”, a chamber opera premiered
by soprano Liana Valente; “Road Rage” premiered by tenor Gregory
Wiest in Munich, Germany;“Who Are You Waving At?” premiered by
soprano Beth Griffith; “Now Shall My Head Be Lifted Up Above My
Enemies” video shown at the University of Kentucky New Music Festival;
“Raspberry Man” performed at the Music Now Concert at Indiana State
University; “Life’s Like a Flute, Life’s Like a Trumpet” premiered by
flutist Marie Herseth Kenote and trumpeter Jerry Lucadamo at the 2011
CFAMC Regional Conference; and “In the Spotlight” commissioned and
premiered by the Palisades Virtuosi.
2012 performances include “Five Strange Dreams” to be premiered
as part of an exhibition of the works of artist/dreamer/singer Philip Carey
at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in California in February 2012;
“The Child in the Hole” performed with lecture by Dr. Liana Valente at
the College Music Society Southern Regional Conference February 23-25
in Tampa FL; “The Child in the Hole” and the world premiere of “Elsje
Christiaens: the front view” by soprano Katherine Harris and clarinetist
Dennis Dougherty at Music at Savior in Paramus, NJ on March 4 in a
joint concert with the works of composer Larry Lockwood; Robert Blaine, trombonist, James Martin, narrator and pianist Rose Grace premiering
three new works “One Day As I Was Walking”, “The First Pharaoh” and “CDEFgab” March 7 at Jackson State University; and the premiere by the Gregg Smith Singers of a setting of Jenny Joseph’s “The Torrent” on
March 24 at Saint Peter’s Church in NYC.
Vollinger’s music has been performed and broadcast in Europe, the
United States, and Asia. NPR devoted an hour program to his works.
Tennessee Technological University presented an entire concert of his
music. Vollinger’s music is published by Abingdon, API, Heritage,
Neil A. Kjos, Lawson-Gould, and Laurendale, with five pieces featured
as editor’s choices in the JW Pepper Catalogue. He is a graduate of the
Manhattan School of Music, teaches Composition and Music of Diverse
Cultures at Nyack College, and directs music at Church of the Savior in
Paramus, NJ. He is also an active member of the Christian Fellowship of
