Composers Bureau

 

 

Sigma Alpha Iota is pleased to provide this resource of information about contemporary American Composers and their music. 

Our Searchable Database contains information regarding genres composers write for, amongst other categories, including contact information. This database is limited to composers who elect to be included.

The alphabetical list, below, is our complete listing of composers and contains website and e-mail links if provided by the composer.

 

 

In addition, the Annual American Composer Update
is available for download as a PDF here.

Previous Digital Composer Updates
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If you are an SAI Composers Bureau member and would like to submit or update information to be listed here, use the online form here. If you are interested in being admitted to the SAI Composers Bureau, please see the admissions information listed below, or our Composers Bureau FAQ Sheet.

Requirements for Admission to the SAI Composers Bureau

Names for possible inclusion together with the composer's credentials should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The candidate for membership in the Composers Bureau must show a pattern of continued activity as a composer of concert music. In addition, prospective members must meet any one of the following criteria:

• Publication by a recognized publisher.
• Performance by professionals in a professional concert venue.
• Performance by professionals on national radio or TV.

 

Native American History Month (November)

The following is a list of composers, artists and works inspired by Native American culture and music, from the Sigma Alpha Iota document archives. 

• Composers Bureau member Greg A. Steinke composed ‘Native American Notes’ for string quartet inspired by the poems of K'os Naahaabii, and presented workshops based on Native American music, noted first in Pan Pipes in 1990. His Tuba-Euphonium Quartet ‘Native American Notes II — The Bitter Roots of Peace’ as composed in 1994. Serving as an IAMA Composer-Judge at the 2022 SAI National Convention, he premiered his ‘Suite in memory of Chief Joseph’ for bass clarinet and piano.
• Augusta Cecconi-Bates’s 1998 ‘Native American Echoes’ is composed for organ and wind ensemble. Her opera ‘Molly of the Mohawks,’ based on the matriarch Konwatsi'tsiaiénni debuted in 2008.
• Linda Tutas Haugen’s ‘Fable of Old Turtle’ for a chamber orchestra, a narrator, and a Native American flute premiered in 2001.
• Katherine Hoover’s 1990 solo flute ‘Kokopeli’ is based on Hopi legends. Her 1991 ‘Canyon Echoes, Op. 45’ is a chamber work for flute and guitar.
• IAMA Composer-Judge John Heins’s ‘The Enchanted Mesa for Native American Flute and String Orchestra’ premiered in 2008.
• Michael Mauldin’s "Dreams of the Child of Light" (2003) was composed for Native American flute and string orchestra.
• Ira-Paul Schwarz’s “The Songs of Celebration – Native American Suite” for flute choir premiered in 2003.
• David Ward-Steinman’s ‘Incantation and Dance’ for piano and Native American flute premiered in 2007.
• Pan Pipes Spring 2014 Alpha Zeta initiate Barbara McAlister was/is an instructor and performer for Cherokee Nation, named to Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. In 2023, she was named a Cultural Capital Fellow in Oklahoma, a recognition of Native artists and performers.