Steven Rice (born 1979) is an American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, who has written works for a variety of ensembles including

orchestra An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

and

choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

Life and works

Rice studied music at the

Eastman School of Music The Eastman School of Music is the music school of the University of Rochester, a private research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman. It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M ...

with Robert Morris and

Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez (born 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Latin-American composer and teacher. He currently resides near Rochester, New York. Sanchez-Gutierrez grew up in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Guadalajara and later studied at the Univers ...

. His work for chamber ensemble ''Murmurs from Limbo'' won the 2005

Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers' competition held annually in memory of Salvatore Martirano (1927–1995), who was an internationally acclaimed American composer and served as professor of compositio ...

, and he received a 2009

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

Young Composer Award. Rice's

orchestral work An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, ce ...

''The Henry Ford Old Time Orchestra Plays Real American Tunes'' premiered in 2009 at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.

List of works

* ''The Henry Ford Old Time Orchestra Plays Real American Tunes'' for Orchestra (2009) * ''Murmurs from Limbo'' for Alto, Tenor, and Chamber Ensemble (2004) * ''Evolution of Deniz (Dance)'' for Choral Ensemble (2009)

References

External links

Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition AwardComposer's website
Living people 1979 births 20th-century classical composers American male classical composers American classical composers Eastman School of Music alumni 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians {{US-composer-20thC-stub