Discipline: Music Composition

Steven Burke

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1998
More: www.stevenburkecomposer.com
Steven Burke began his musical studies with the trumpet at age seven. In college, he divided his time between music and science; following nerve damage, he turned his attention to composition. He went on to earn degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Yale University, and Cornell University. Burke has been recognized with the Rome Prize, the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Charles Ives Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has received commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the Jerome Foundation, the National Symphony Orchestra, and elsewhere. Following a commission by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and the Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel, Echo of Halos was premiered in Germany to critical and public acclaim. Burke’s music has been performed by such distinguished ensembles as: the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the orchestra of the University of Southern California, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the New Millennium Ensemble, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and the Jordan Winds of New England Conservatory. Dream Forms for piano trio (2011/2016) was composed for and premiered by the di.vi.sion piano trio.

Studios

Monday Music

Steven Burke worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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