Discipline: Music Composition

Stephen Wilcox

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Goleta, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004
Stephen Wilcox received a B.M. in instrumental performance (tuba) and a B.M. in music theory from West Chester University, an M.M. in composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as a Ph.D. in composition at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, his dissertation, Cho-Han, was performed by Osmo Vänska and the Minnesota Orchestra as part of the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Composers' Institute. A BMI award winner and MacDowell Fellow, he attended the Summer Composition Workshop in Hoy, Scotland, where he worked with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His other honors include awards from the Arts Fund, NACUSA, New Music Delaware, "Friends and Enemies of New Music," the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Prism Saxophone quartet.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Stephen Wilcox 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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