Discipline: Music Composition

Steven Sacco

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cliffside Park, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1996
More: www.stevensacco.com
Steven Sacco is an American composer. A composition and theory faculty member and past department co-chair at the Mannes College of Music in New York, Sacco also teaches at Midland School in New Jersey and has taught at Rutgers University and at SUNY Purchase. His work is performed internationally by some of today's leading soloists and ensembles. International tours have seen his work performed in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. Some highlights include: The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own," commissioned the Music in Three Movements for Eight Trumpets for their mission to the 2010 International Trumpet Guild in Sydney, Australia. The ensemble gave premieres of the work in both Washington D.C. and Sydney. Czech Nonet, Europe's oldest and longest continuing performing chamber group, premiered his Divertimento on their 2009 American West Coast tour. Academic awards include grants from The Arts and Letters Foundation, The Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Corporation of Yaddo, MacDowell, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and others.

Studios

MacDowell

Steven Sacco worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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