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David Ward-Steinman
12+ albums
contemporary classicalinstrumentalpianoexperimentalcomposer
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David Ward-Steinman (born November 6, 1936) is an American composer and music professor. Ward-Steinman studied at Florida State University and the University of Illinois, where he received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship for foreign study. After receiving his doctorate, he was a fellow at Princeton University from 1970. His teachers included John Boda, Burrill Phillips, Darius Milhaud (at Aspen, Colorado), Milton Babbitt (at Tanglewood) and Nadia Boulanger. He studied piano under Edward Kilenyi, and in 1995 attended a course at IRCAM. From 1970 to 1972, Ward-Steinman was the Ford Foundation composer-in-residence for the Tampa Bay area of Florida and he spent 1989-90 in Australia under a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, with residencies at the Victorian Centre for the Arts and La Trobe University in Melbourne. Ward-Steinman has received a number of commissions, most notably from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His orchestral works have been performed by a number of ensembles, including the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. His music has been recorded on a number of labels, including Harmonia Mundi. Ward-Steinman has written a book, Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts, and co-authored Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms. Ward-Steinman is currently dividing his time between San Diego State University and Indiana University in Bloomington. He was formerly Compose
top songs
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Duo for Cello & Piano - III Moderately fast
182Duo For Cello & Piano - I Slow And Nebulous, Fast And Light
183Duo for Cello & Piano - II Slow, ethereal, suspended
164Concerto No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra: I. Moderately fast
135Concerto No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra: II. Very slow
96Concerto No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra: III. Fast and Vigorous
97Under Capricorn
68Skyline
59Prisms and Reflections: Projection
410Sonata For Piano Fortified: II. Slow
4albums
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Borobudur: Prisms & Reflections
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Ward-Steinman, Turok, Dello Joio, Cowell, Creston: Modern Masters
Ward-Steinman: Western Orpheus and Other Works
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In Memoriam - Concert Piece for Two Pianos
Modern Masters II
Borobudur — Prisms and Reflections
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Borobudur - Prisms And Reflections
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Sergei Prokofiev and David Ward-Steinman: Music for Cello and Piano
Ward-Steinman: Three Concertos
Western Orpheus
Three Concertos
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Ward-Steinman, David - Concerto No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra