American composer and full-time composer/publisher and adjunct assistant professor at Hamline University in St. Paul. Anne Kilstofte, a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a much sought-after composer of orchestral, operatic, chamber, and vocal music. Her work has been commissioned and performed by such ensembles as the Stockholm String Quartet, the wind ensemble Harmonia Mundi, The Dale Warland Singers, and the National Lutheran Choir (U.S.A.). In the genre of choral and vocal music Dr. Kilstofte's music has been heralded for its aptitude in sensitive text painting and vocal textures. Writing in the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, critic Larry Fuchsberg praised Kilstofte's “subtlety of the composer's palette”, in her Requiem for Fallen Stars (1992) from her opera Matches.