Stephen Andrew Taylor

		Compositions and News
Biography List of Compositions (with audio excerpts)		Paradises Lost Opera-in-progress based on the science-fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, featured as part of the New York City Opera's VOX 2006 festival, May 6-7. American Opera Projects performed exceprts in New York City in May and October, 2007. Two new exerpts will be played in summer 2008: Silent Black Outside for gamelan, voices and electronics will be premiered in June at the Bali Art Festival; and Agoraphobia for flute, harp, electronics and video will be premiered at the 10th World Harp Congress in Amsterdam in July.
Recent and upcoming performances		Tapestry Opera Briefs Four short scenes with texts by Taylor Graham, Marcia Johnson, Alicia Payne, and Sandy Pool, performed by the Toronto-based Tapestry New Opera Works, September 28-29, 2007.
Associate Professor, Composition and Theory		Flow For the recorder collective Quartet New Generation and the New Philharmonic, premiered in October 2006 in Chicago.
School of Music		Nebulae For harp, live electronics & video, premiered July 21, 2005 by Ann Yeung at the World Harp Congress, Dublin. The interactive video is based on paintings by Hua Nian. Performed in Chicago, June 2007.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		Seven Memorials For piano, performed at Tanglewood by Gloria Cheng July 29, 2006; "sparklingly tactile." Allan Kozinn, New York Times, 8/2/06. Premiered October 24, 2004 by Gloria Cheng in Los Angeles. "...Cheng unveiled something big and special: the first performance of Stephen Andrew Taylor's 'Seven Memorials,' a splendid sonic tour of natural phenomena all over the globe." Richard S. Ginell, LA Times, 9/28/04.
		SetFinder A JavaScript page which calculates the prime form for any pitch class set (updated 1/15/06).
Classes for Spring 2008: University of Illinois New Music Ensemble Music 408C: Analysis of Musical Form, 19th Century		Writings Including articles on composition, the music of György Ligeti, and computer music.

Last updated March 18, 2008 by Stephen Taylor.