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Stefan Weisman is a composer based in New York City. He is a graduate of Bard College (Clair Leonard Scholar, Betsy Richards Memorial Scholar, BA `92) and Yale University (Bradley-Keeler Memorial Scholar, MM `97), and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University (Naumberg Fellowship, MFA `03). His principal composition instructors include David Lang, Joan Tower, Daron Hagen, Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Steven Mackey, Barbara White and Paul Lansky.
Among his commissions are works for the Gay Gotham Choir with the Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Battell Chapel Choir, the Minimum Security Composers Collective and Sequitur. Most recently, he was commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium to compose a piece in honor of George Crumb on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Performers of his work include the Miró String Quartet, the New Millennium Ensemble, the Third Angle Ensemble, pianist Lisa Moore, mezzo-sopranist Hai-Ting Chinn, the Yesaroun' Duo, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Luna Nova, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic conducted by Leon Botstein. Upcoming projects include new pieces for Eighth Blackbird, and the American Opera Project’s “Composers and the Voice Series.” He has participated in theater, dance and video collaborations at venues such as the Knitting Factory, Collective Unconscious, WAX, the HERE Theater, and the Most Significant Bytes Multimedia Festival at Mount Union College. His music has also been heard at Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, the June in Buffalo festival, the Flea Theater and a Bang on a Can Marathon Concert. His fellowships and residencies include the MacDowell Colony, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. He is a recipient of awards from Meet the Composer, SCI, ASCAP, and the American Music Center. His choral work “Light, light, light, light, light” was the first-prize winner in the Roger Wagner Center’s Choral Composition Competition and is to be published by the Fred Bock Company distributed by Hal Leonard. His piece “From Frankenstein” recently won the Chicago Ensemble’s “Discover America V” Competition, and it will be played in Chicago in the 2004-05 season. He has been the coordinator of both the Princeton University Composers’ Ensemble, and the Princeton University Composers’ Colloquia. Additionally, he is producing compact discs to be included in the book series “Voices of America's Musical Century,” an overview of oral history for American composers by Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve. |
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Light, light, light, light, light |
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| Light, light, light, light, light.mp3 - complete | |||
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For SATB chorus Commissioned and premiered by the Battell Chapel Choir First-prize winner in Roger Wagner Center’s Choral Composition Competition | |||
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From Frankenstein |
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For mezzo soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano Premiered by the New Millennium Ensemble Winner of the Chicago Ensemble’s “Discover America” Competition | |||
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Nervous People |
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For string quartet and trumpet Premiered at a Bang on a Can Marathon Concert by the Miró Quartet with Tom Hoyt, trumpet | |||
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TOE (Theory of Everything) |
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For soprano saxophone and vibraphone Premiered by the Yesaroun Duo | |||
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