Discipline: Music Composition

Kevin Beavers

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Berlin, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2000, 2004
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Kevin Beavers is a composer and educator from Medellín, Columbia who was raised in Keyser, WV. Beavers received degrees from West Virginia University and the University of Michigan. His primary teachers include William Albright, Leslie Bassett, John Beall, William Balcom, Evan Chambers, and Theo Loevendie. Beavers has taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp, the University of Texas in Austin, and at Colorado University in Boulder. He has received several accolades for his work, including the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Centennial Composition Competition Commission, a Fellowship at the Tanglewood Festival, the Nissim Prize from ASCAP, a three-year residency with the California Symphony, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Beavers presently live and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Kevin Beavers worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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