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First name: Steven
Last name: Mackey
Dates: 1956
Category: Quartet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Piano Quartet
Publisher: ACA
Peculiarities: See: http://catalog.nypl.org/search~S1?/dPiano+quartets+--+Scores./dpiano+quartets+scores/1%2C2%2C271%2CE/frameset&FF=dpiano+quartets+scores&55%2C%2C106
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steven Mackey (born February 14, 1956) is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator. As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions are informed by rock and jazz, though in an avant-garde vein. He favors the electric guitar and frequently performs his own compositions for the instrument, which include a concerto for electric guitar and orchestra (Tuck and Roll) and two works for electric guitar and string quartet (Physical Property and Troubadour Songs). He served as Composer-in-Residence at the Aspen Music Festival in 1985 among many other residencies such as Yellow barn, Imagine Festival and Bennington. More recently, Mackey was announced Composer in Residence at Tanglewood in the summer of 2006. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1956 to American parents, Mackey was raised in northern California. He was graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from the University of California, Davis, followed by an M.A. at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Ph.D from Brandeis University. Since 1985 Mackey has served as a professor of music at Princeton University, where he teaches composition, theory, twentieth century music, improvisation, and a variety of special topics. He is also a co-director of the Princeton Composers Ensemble and in 1991, he was awarded that university's first-ever Distinguished Teaching Award. Mackey's music is published by Boosey & Hawkes.