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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |