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First name: Steven
Last name: Snowdon
Dates:
Category: Quintet
Nationality: American
Opus name: The Devil's nine questions (2008)
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Peculiarities: http://library.newmusicusa.org/files/17271/the_devils_nine_questions.pdf
Information: Steven Snowden creates music for a diverse array of media including theater, dance, film, installations, and the concert stage. Along with composition, he performs and promotes new music for horn, and constructs instruments from found objects for use in electro-acoustic improvisation and interdisciplinary collaborations. His work has been presented at numerous festivals and concert series including Electric LaTex, Arts Midwest, E.A.R.S., Creative Music Works, CoCoCo2, Pendulum New Music, the Cohen New Works Festival, Wet Ink New Music, and Soundscapes by Mystery Cabal. Raised in rural Southwest Missouri, Snowden began composition studies in 2002 at Missouri State University, received a Master’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is currently a doctoral composition fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. His principal teachers include Carter Pann, Daniel Kellogg, Michael Theodore, Yevgeniy Sharlat, and Russell Pinkston. Recently, Snowden’s work has been performed by The Willson Quartet (Madison, Wisconsin), Sotto Voce (Tuscaloosa, Alabama), The Playground Ensemble (Denver, Colorado), The University of Colorado Wind Symphony (Boulder, Colorado), and The Tasman String Quartet (Wellington, New Zealand).