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Artist
Stephen Montague
12+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposeramericanelectronicamerica
about
Stephen Montague (b.10 March, 1943 Syracuse, New York) grew up in Idaho, West Virginia and Florida. He studied piano, conducting and composition at Florida State University (BM:1965, MM:1967), received a doctorate in composition from Ohio State University (DMA:1972) and won a Fulbright Fellowship to work in Warsaw, Poland (1972-74). He first came to England as a musician with Strider Dance Co. (Richard Alston & co.), but since 1975 has worked as a freelance composer based in London and touring worldwide. His music has been widely performed, featuring in numerous international festivals, most recently the BBC Proms (London) and Wiener Musik Tage (Austria) with Composer Portrait concerts devoted to his music in London, Cambridge, New York, Houston, Vienna, St. Pölten, Bad Münster and Budapest. Major commissions include works for the Royal Festival Hall (London), Cheltenham Festival, Bath Festival, the Proms and Ft. McLeod Festival (Canada) as well as works for pianists Stephen Kovacevich and Marc-André Hamelin, percussionist Evelyn Glennie, the Hilliard Ensemble, the International Computer Music Association, and a 35-minute work for narrator and orchestra commissioned by British Telecom premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, London, with a further 15 performances by other leading British orchestras around the UK and abroad. Stephen Montague was a founder of Sonic Arts Network in 1980, Chairman (1993-97) and Artistic Director (1998-99) of the SPNM (S
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albums
Slow Dance On A Burial Ground
Stephen Montague: Southern Lament
The Art of the Toy Piano
Institute for Psychoacoustics & Electronic Music: 50 Years of Electronic & Electroacoustic Music at the Ghent University
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Stephen Montague: Tongues of Fire
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A Doll's House
Spectrum / Spectrum 2
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Institute For Psychoacoustics And Electronic Music-50 Years Of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music At The Ghent University
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Snakebite
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IPEM - 50 Years of Electronic Music at the Ghent University [CD 2]
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Music for Merce, Vol. 10
Southern Lament