Rand Steiger, Composer-In-Residence
Composer/conductor Rand Steiger
was born in New York City in 1957. His compositions have been performed at
festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, Ojai, Invetionen (Berlin), Darmstadt,
Holland, and Toga (Japan), and by many ensembles including the St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, Speculum Musicae, San Francisco
Contemporary Music Players, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and the New York New
Music Ensemble. He has received a Rome Prize, a National Endowment Composers
Fellowship, and commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the Aequalis Trio,
Zeitgeist, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. His works are recorded on
the New Albion, Centaur, CRI, Crystal, and New World labels. He was a member
of the Faculty of California Institute of the Arts from 1982 through 1987,
and is currently a Professor in the Music Department at the University of
California, San Diego, where he served as department chair from 1992 through 1996.
The California EAR Unit, Ensemble-In-Residence
The California EAR Unit, a Los Angeles-based
new music ensemble, is dedicated to the performance, promotion and creation of the
exciting music of our time. Founded in March 1981, the EAR Unit has brought
unparalleled versatility, virtuosity and dedication to its performances and is
recognized today as one of America's finest contemporary chamber ensembles.
The EAR Unit's repertoire of over 400 compositions ranges from the most demanding
works for the concert hall to collaborations with major artists in other fields
to create original multi-media works. The Unit has performed at major venues all
over the world including Tanglewood, Brussels, Aspen, Kiev, Paris, the Kennedy
Center, Cologne, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Santa Fe,
Amsterdam, Reykjavik, and many places in between. The EAR Unit has recorded
for Nonesuch, Crystal, New Albion, New World, Tzadik, O.O. Discs, and Cambria
labels and has the distinction of being one of the first contemporary music groups
to be featured on a CD-ROM- Morton Subotnick's All My Hummingbirds have Alibis on
the Voyager label.
Jack Straw Productions, West Coast Host Organization
Jack Straw Productions, the Northwest's audio arts center, has been a community
resource for young, emerging, and established composers since 1962. Dedicated to
the production and presentation of all forms of audio art, Jack Straw's areas of
focus are arts and heritage partnerships, arts and technology education, and its
Artist Support Program. Through this program, over four-hundred musicians, composers,
and audio artists have been provided the means to complete recording projects in
Jack Straw's studios, thereby furthering their careers and enriching the new music
community of the Northwest. Jack Straw has produced several series of radio programs
focusing on the works and lives of local composers, such as From Composer to
Performance, which explored the process of composing and performing works of
new music, and Sinister Resonance, which was based on live concerts of new music
and interviews with composers including Janice Giteck. In the past five years, more
than two hundred non-commercial radio stations have broadcast Jack Straw programs,
which have received five national awards for artistic excellence. In the past
several years, Jack Straw has expanded its outreach efforts with a growing list of
audio art and technology programs for local youth at elementary, junior, and
high school levels. Jack Straw's website features a variety of new music
excerpts of all genres from their programs, and they have broadcast live
concerts over the internet.
West Coast Partnership:
Rand Steiger
The California EAR Unit
Jack Straw Productions
East Coast Partnership:
Mark Weber
The Relache Ensemble
Atlantic Center for the Arts
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