List of Compositions
(with audio excerpts) |
 |
Paradises Lost
Opera based on the science-fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin; Libretto by Marcia Johnson;
commissioned by the University of Illinois. Chamber version premiere by
Third Angle in Portland, Oregon, on January 20, 2012.
Full premiere April 26-29, Urbana, Illinois.
|
|
Biography
Recent and upcoming performances |
The
Machine Awakes
CD from Albany Records, featuring performances by three Grammy winners: pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Masumi Rostad
(Pacifica Quartet), and hornist Oto Carillo (Chicago Symphony). Includes
The Machine Awakes,
Seven Memorials,
Quark Shadows, and
Nebulae.
Also available on
Amazon
and iTunes. Fanfare
magazine, July/August 2010: "...terse, pointillistic, abstract, precise... pretty and anything but shallow...
With his refined and imaginative sound world, Stephen Andrew Taylor is a composer worth hearing."
|
Associate Professor,
Composition and Theory
School of Music
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|
Ubiquitin
New work for harpsichord, written for Gloria Cheng and Piano Spheres.
Premiere April 30, 2013.
|
Director,
Illinois Modern Ensemble
|
Everywhere
Entangled
For 12 percussionists, commissioned by the Moores School
of Music at the University of Houston; released on the CD Everywhere Entangled on
Albany Records.
|
|
World Without Words
For 13 saxophones, commissioned by Debra Richtmeyer. Premiere
at NASA (North American Saxophone Alliance), Athens, Georgia, March 4,
2010.
|
|
Agoraphobia
For flute, harp, electronics and video, premiered at the 10th World
Harp Congress in Amsterdam, July 2008; the two-movement version premiered
in New York City and Montreal, August 2009. Released on the CD Voyage:
American Works for Flute and Harp on
Albany Records. |
|
| |
|
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 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.
Writings
Including articles on composition, the music of György Ligeti,
and computer music. |