Annual American Composers Update
David Ward-Steinman
David Ward-Steinman is Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence
at San Diego State University (SDSU). In 1998, he wrote
a chapter in
Teaching Excellence, Michael Flachmann,
editor; and appeared in
Baker's Biographical Dictionary
of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, by Nicholas
Slonimsky;
The History of American Classical Music
-- MacDowell Through Minimalism, by John Warthen Struble;
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Don
Michael Randel, editor; and
Who's Who in America.
He had recent residencies, performances, and lectures
in Hong Kong, San Diego, Australia, New Zealand, Florida,
and Colorado. In July 1998, the Moravian (Czech Republic)
Philharmonic Orchestra recorded
Cello Concerto, Cinnabar
Concerto, Chroma Concerto, and
Elegy for Astronauts,
with Howard Colf, cello; Karen Elaine, viola; Ward-Steinman,
Loie Flood, and Patrice Madura, keyboards; and John Flood,
percussion.
Premieres
In May 1998, the chamber version of
Perelandra,
a double concerto, for two violins, piano/celeste, and
percussion, premiered in La Jolla, CA, with Anna and Bracha
Malkin, Eduard Laurel, and John Flood. SDSU premieres
were
Centennial Song, for soloists, chorus, and
piano, with the Aztec Concert Choir and Chamber Singers,
led by Frank Almond, and Ward-Steinman, piano;
Gemini
III, with Momilani Ramstrum, guitar, and Ward-Steinman,
synthesizer; and San Dan Diego State:
Centennial Song
(solo version), with Martin Chambers, voice, and Steinman,
piano, all in Nov. 1996; and
Cinnabar (new version),
for viola, percussion, and piano, with Elaine, John Flood,
and Ward-Steinman, Sept. 1998. In Nov. 1996 at California
State University at Dominguez Hills, Ward-Steinman presented
Birthday Improvisation on the Notes in Elliott Schwart'z
Name, for piano. The California Association of Professional
Music Teachers (CAPMT)/MTNA convention, Jan. 1996 in San
Diego, included David Burge introducing
Prisms and
Reflections, for piano and piano interior (1996),
a CAPMT commission.
Performances
1998 College Music Society meetings featured
Night
Winds (Woodwind Quintet No. 2), with Puerto Rico Conservatory
of Music faculty and students, at the annual convention,
in San Juan (Oct.); and
Sonata for Piano Fortified,
with Ward-Steinman, at the Pacific Southern Chapter meeting,
in Tucson (Mar.). In May 1998, Janis L. McKay and I-fen
Peng played
Childs Play, for bassoon and piano,
at The Ohio State University. Delores Stevens performed
Third Piano Sonata at Palomar College, San Marcos,
Nov. 1996, and in The Czech Republic, summer 1997. Heard
at SDSU were
Sonata for Piano Fortified, choreographed
by Melissa Nunn, Nov. 1997; and
Prisms and Reflections,
with the composer, Mar. 1998. Other San Diego performances
were
Intersections II: 'Borobudur', with John Flood,
percussion, and the composer, fortified piano, at the
International New Music Festival, Oct. 1997, and the Lyceum
Theatre, Jan. 1999; and
The Tale of Issoumbochi,
for narrator, soprano, flute, clarinet, cello, percussion,
piano, and celeste, by the International Chamber Players,
under the composer, eight times in fall 1997.
Publications
The Web; 12-tone song (reprint); in Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
Share the Music, 1996-97.
Recordings
Night Winds (Woodwind Quintet No. 2); Arioso Wind
Quintet;
Olympics Overture; SDSU Symphony;
A
Centennial Song, for choir and orchestra; SDSU Centennial
CD, 1997.
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