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Stephen Feigenbaum is a 20-year-old emerging composer who draws on aspects of popular music, from the grittiest to the most lyrical, to create works that make complexity accessible.

Stephen has achieved national recognition through commissions and awards. Recently, he was the winner of the New York Art Ensemble and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble composition contests. He also won the 2009 commission to compose a work for the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. Other awards have come from ASCAP and youngARTS and international competitions sponsored by the
Cambridge Chamber Singers and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. His work also has been performed at the Flea Theater, New York City, during the Tribeca New Music Festival, and at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston. Stephen has been featured on National Public Radio's "From the Top'.

His compositions have been performed by groups including the Cincinnati Pops, the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, and the Yale Camerata.

Last summer Stephen was a fellow in the New Music Workshop at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut, where he worked with composer Martin Bresnick. Stephen is a junior at Yale and has also studied with Kathryn Alexander, Michael Gandolfi, Samuel Adler, and John Harbison.

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Stephen was awarded second place in the Vancouver Chamber Choir 2009 Young Composers Competition (Vancouver, B.C.), for Songs of Sorrow and Hope. ... more awards

Upcoming performances

June 27, 2009, Monsoon Season, commissioned by the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, will be performed by the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra in Sanders Theater at Harvard. ... more performances