Steven Mackey is a GRAMMY Award-winning composer with compositions ranging from orchestral and chamber music to dance and opera. Mackey’s orchestral music has been performed by major orchestras around the world, and he regularly performs his own work, including three electric guitar concertos and numerous solo and chamber works. He is also active as an improvising musician, and performs regularly with his band Big Farm. Mackey is currently professor of music and former chair of the Department of Music at Princeton University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1985.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Steven Mackey
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Princeton, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989
More:
stevenmackey.com
Studios
Irving Fine
Steven Mackey worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…