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RECENT COMPOSITIONS

Ophelia's Gaze - a chamber opera

March1911 - string quartet - Vega Quartet

Warrior Woman Pantoum - digital audio with dance- Anna Leo, choreographer

Quiet Silence - marimba and live diffusion - Sam Solomon (Juilliard School)

Quiver Songs - shakuhachi, Yoshio Kurahashi and guitar, Brian Luckett

PERFORMING

Conducting:

Elliott Carter - TripleDuo - Thamyris New Music Ensemble with guest pianist, Ursula Oppens

Steve Mackey - Deal for solo guitar and chamber orchestra - Steve Mackey, guitar wth Thamyris

Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King - Thamyris with guest vocalist, Haleh Abghari

Javanese gamelan ensemble:

Wayang kulit with Midiyanto - Emory Gamelan Ensemble, director, kendhang, rebab, and gender

Steel drum:

Frederic Rzewski - The Lost Melody - Thamyris New Music Ensemble with Frederic Rzewski, guest composer

Doublebass:

John Cage - Ryoanji - with Yoshio Kurahashi, shakuhachi, Peggy Benkeser, percussion

MORE INFORMATION

List of Compositions

Live Electronic Compositions

Audio Examples

Conducting Experience

Journal: Thoughts on Music, Aesthetics, Culture

Biography

Steve Everett is Professor of Music and teaches composition, computer music, and directs the Music-Audio Research Center at Emory University (website) in Atlanta, USA. In addition he has been a visiting professor of composition at Princeton University and has been a guest composer at Eastman School of Music, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in Switzerland, Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, and Utrecht School of the Arts.

Many of his recent compositions involve performers with computer-controlled electronics and have been performed in twenty different countries throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including at IRCAM and INA-GRM Radio France in Paris, Orgelpark in Amsterdam, The Esplanade in Singapore, Korea Computer Music Festival in Seoul, Royal Northern College of Music in England, Amerika Haus in Cologne-Germany, Tokyo Denki University, and Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and CUNY-Graduate Center in New York.

He has received composition awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, and International Trumpet Guild. Works have been performed at numerous new music festivals including Spark Festival of Electronic Arts, ICMC, Resonances Arts Festival-Paris, SEAMUS, and New York Electroacoustic Music Festival. He is recorded on SCI, Crystal, Mark, Frog Peak and ACA Digital Records. He has been a resident research fellow at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, Liguria Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy, and at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. In 1998 he received the Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts, awarded by the City of Atlanta, the city’s highest recognition of artistic achievement.

In addition to substantial experience conducting opera and orchestral repertoire, he has presented over 200 works of contemporary music as conductor of Thamyris New Music Ensemble in Atlanta since 1992. His doctoral degree in composition is from the University of Illinois studying with Salvatore Martirano. He also studied composition with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Witold Lutosławski at Dartington Hall in England and has received foundation support for music study in Bali, Java, and India.

At Emory University, he has served as chair of the Department of Music, interim director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and is currently President-elect of the Faculty Council and University Senate.