Texas Bandmasters Association
Bandmasters Review • June 2013
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2013 TBA Featured Composer
Steven Bryant
Steven Bryant, the son of a professional trumpeter and music
educator, composes music across a variety of media and ensembles,
ranging from electronic and electro-acoustic works, to chamber
music, to works for wind ensembles and orchestras. Steven
strongly values music education, and his creative output includes
a number of works for young and developing musicians.
Steven’s music has been performed by numerous ensembles
across North America, Europe, and East Asia. He is a three-time
winner of the National Band Association’s William D. Revelli
Composition Award: in 2010 for
Ecstatic Waters
, in 2008 for
Suite
Dreams
, and in 2007 for his work
Radiant Joy
. His first orchestral
work,
Loose Id for Orchestra
, hailed by celebrated composer
Samuel Adler as “orchestrated like a virtuoso”, premiered by the
Julliard Symphony, and is featured on a CD release by the Bowling
Green Philharmonia on Albany Records.
Alchemy in Silent Spaces
,
a large-scale work commisioned by James DePreist and The Julliard
School was premiered by the Julliard Orchestra in May 2006.
Since its 2008 premiere, his seminal work for large ensemble and
electronics
Ecstatic Waters
has become one of the most performed
works of its kind in the world, receiving over 175 performances in
four seasons.
Steven studied composition with John Corigliano at The Julliard
School, Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas, and Francis
McBeth at Ouachita University, trained for one summer in the mid-
1980s as a breakdancer, and has a Bacon Number of 1. He resides
in Durham, NC. For more information, please visit his website at
www.stevenbryant.com
Steven Bryant will present this clinic:
“Balancing Educat ion wi th Art istry —
A Composer’s Perspect ive”
Tuesday, July 23 at 8: 15 a.m. , CC Room 214CD
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Music composed by Steven Bryant
will be performed in concert by the:
Greater Dal las Youth Orchestra
Wind Symphony
Sunday, July 21 at 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Nicholas Wi l l iams, Conductor
Cedar Park Winds
Monday, July 22 at 3:00 p.m.
Christopher Yee, Conductor
The Uni ted States Air Force
Band of the West
Monday, July 22, 7:30 p.m.
Captain Michael D. Hoerber, Conductor
All concerts will be held in the
Lila Cockrell Theatre.