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Stephen Feigenbaum is a 21-year-old composer from Winchester, Massachusetts. His work draws on aspects of popular music, from the grittiest to the most lyrical.
In the summer of 2010, Stephen was the ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine. He also is the 2010 winner of the Sacra/Profana (San Diego) choral composition contest. He is a past winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and of competitions sponsored by the New York Art Ensemble, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. He also received a fellowship for study at the Norfolk (Connecticut) Chamber Music Festival. His compositions have been performed at Jordan Hall and the Hatch Shell in Boston, the Green Room in San Francisco, Lincoln Center and Le Poisson Rouge in New York, and in cities from Vancouver, to Berlin, to Prague. One of his works was performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, directed by Erich Kunzel, on a CD released by Telarc in 2009. Stephen is a music major at Yale, where he conceived Sic Futuristic (the first production of Sic InC), a high-energy, multimedia show for new chamber music, including his own compositions. He has studied with Kathryn Alexander, Martin Bresnick, Michael Gandolfi, Samuel Adler, and Claude Baker. Complete biography
Stephen Feigenbaum (b. 1989) is a composer from Winchester, Massachusetts, whose work draws on aspects of popular music, from the grittiest to the most lyrical.
In the summer of 2010, he was the ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine. He also is the 2010 winner of the Sacra/Profana (San Diego) choral composition contest. A music major at Yale, Stephen has won the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and is a past winner of competitions sponsored by the New York Art Ensemble, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. His compositions have been performed at Jordan Hall and the Hatch Shell in Boston, the Green Room in San Francisco, Lincoln Center and (le) Poisson Rouge in New York, and in cities from Vancouver, to Berlin, to Prague. One of his works was recorded by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, directed by Erich Kunzel, on a CD released by Telarc in 2009. His compositions also have been performed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and by artists including Lisa Moore, Ashley Bathgate, John Pickford Richards, and Caroline Goulding. At Yale, Stephen conceived Sic Futurisic, the first production of SIC InC, a chamber ensemble that presents high-energy, multimedia shows, including his compositions. A recording of their 2010 concert at (le) Poisson Rouge may be heard on Q2 archives, on the website of WQXR, New York City's classical music station. When he was in high school, Stephen was interviewed on the National Public Radio program "From the Top," and one of his compositions was performed. Stephen has studied composition as a fellow at the Norfolk (Connecticut) Chamber Music Festival and the International Summer Music Academy (ISAM) in Michelstadt, Germany. He also has attended the Freie Universität Berlin, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. His composition teachers have included Kathryn Alexander, Martin Bresnick, Michael Gandolfi, Samuel Adler, and Claude Baker. When he's not writing music, Stephen enjoys singing. He has sung with the Yale Camerata, directed by Marguerite Brooks, and he is a member of the Whiffenpoofs, the country's oldest collegiate a cappella group. Stephen regularly composes for musical theater and has been the music director and conductor of numerous college productions. For his achievements in music, he received Yale's Selden award, and for his work as a composer, he won the Cox prize at Yale. Resume
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