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Recent Works

List of Compositions
(with audio excerpts)

Paradises Lost
Opera based on the science-fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin; Libretto by Marcia Johnson. Commissioned by the University of Illinois for April 2012; a chamber version is being premiered by Third Angle in Portland, Oregon, on January 20, 2012. Orchestral excerpts featured at the 2011 Spoleto Festival, and a workshop with Opera In Flight, Gershwin Hotel, New York City, April 2-3, 2010. An early version was featured as part of the New York City Opera's VOX 2006 festival; American Opera Projects performed exceprts in New York City in 2007.

Biography

The Machine Awakes
CD from Albany Records, featuring performances by three Grammy winners: pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Masumi Rostad (Pacifica Quartet), and hornist Oto Carillo (Chicago Symphony). Includes The Machine Awakes, Seven Memorials, Quark Shadows, and Nebulae. Also available on Amazon and iTunes. Reviewed by Raymond Tuttle in Fanfare magazine, July/August 2010. "...terse, pointillistic, abstract, precise... pretty and anything but shallow... With his refined and imaginative sound world, Stephen Andrew Taylor is a composer worth hearing."

Recent and upcoming performances

Wind Moving Colors in the Air
For chamber orchestra; written for the Spoleto USA festival, May 30, 2011. Sergei Pavlov, conductor.

  Everywhere Entangled
For 12 percussionists, commissioned by the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. Tour and performance at the Percussive Arts Society in Indianapolis, November 13, 2010.

Associate Professor,
Composition and Theory
School of Music

2011 Bellairs Institute Workshop on Music and Mathematics
Sponsored by McGill University, Feb. 12-14, 2011, Barbados; here's the pdf for my talk on rhythm in Radiohead and Björk.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign World Without Words
For 13 saxophones, commissioned by Debra Richtmeyer. Premiere at NASA (North American Saxophone Alliance), Athens, Georgia, March 4, 2010.

University of Illinois New Music Ensemble

Agoraphobia
For flute, harp, electronics and video, premiered at the 10th World Harp Congress in Amsterdam, July 2008; the two-movement version premiered in New York City and Montreal, August 2009. Released on the CD Voyage: American Works for Flute and Harp on Albany Records.

 

Seven Memorials
For piano, performed at Tanglewood by Gloria Cheng July 29, 2006; "sparklingly tactile." Allan Kozinn, New York Times, 8/2/06. Premiered October 24, 2004 by Gloria in Los Angeles. "...Cheng unveiled something big and special: the first performance of Stephen Andrew Taylor's 'Seven Memorials,' a splendid sonic tour of natural phenomena all over the globe." Richard S. Ginell, LA Times, 9/28/04. 

Writings
Including articles on composition, the music of György Ligeti, and computer music.

Last updated January 18, 2012 by Stephen Taylor.

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