David Ward-Steinman

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[?], New Orleans Philharmonic[?], San Diego Symphony[?], and the Seattle Symphony. 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 Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at San Diego State University[?].

External link

• Biography, list of works, and reviews (http://www.presser.com/composers/wardsteinman)