Steve Everett teaches composition, electronic and computer music, and directs the Computer Music Studios and Javanese Gamelan Ensemble at Emory University in Atlanta. He has recently been a visiting professor of composition at Princeton University, the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. 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.

As a composer, much of his work involves interactive computer-controlled electronics with performers. These have been performed throughout Europe, East Asia, Canada and the USA, including recently at IRCAM and INA-GRM in Paris. Composition awards have been received from the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, Bogliasco Foundation, and International Trumpet Guild.

His music-video, Opaque Silhouette, was presented at ICMC2002–Sweden, the 2002 Seoul Computer Festival, the CIRCUS Symposium in Glasgow, and is included in the American Composers Forum Sonic Circuit collection. Ladrang Kampung for gamelan and electronics was presented at the ICMC2003-Singapore. Blow Back for trumpet and electronics received first place in the 2002 International Trumpet Guild Composition Contest and was premiered in Manchester, England. He is recorded on SCI, Crystal, Mark, Frog Peak and ACA Digital Records.

He is conductor of Thamyris New Music Ensemble and has guest conducted the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the Contemporary Chamber Players of Illinois.

www.steveeverett.org