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New Commissioned Works
by Frank Stemper
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New Commissioned Works by Frank Stemper
We are honored to feature new commissioned works this June by Frank Stemper, a celebrated and respected Professor of Music, Composer in Residence, and Director of the Center for Experimental Music at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale.
Prof. Stemper's works have been critiqued as being both “overly complex” and “curiously accessible.” From his home in rural Southern Illinois his music has made its way to receive hundreds of performances by orchestras and ensembles across the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, England, Holland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Ukraine and Japan. Recently, his compositions have been heard in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Saptamina Internationala A Muzicii Noi - in Bucharest, Romania; the Festival Internacional De Musica Contemporánea in Alicante, Spain; Vladmir Ussachevsky Computer Music Festival in Los Angeles, California; Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria; the Incontri Europei Con La Musica - XXII in Bergamo, Italy; and the XV FESTIVAL DE MARZO in Chihuahua, Mexico.
His work has been supported by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, 19 consecutive ASCAP Standard Awards, 3 Meet the Composer stipends, 3 Artist Fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and through residencies supported by the governments of France, Austria, Romania and Mexico. He was the 1981 recipient of the George Ladd Prix de Paris from the University of California, and in 2003 his Secrets of War, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Information about receiving scores or other recordings of his music can be found at www.frankstemper.com