Louis Andriessen, Gyorgi Ligeti, Claude Vivier, Elliot Carter, Galina Ustvolskaya, Igor Stravinsky, W. A. Mozart, Josquin Des Pres, Thelonius Monk, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Bill Frisell, Vladimir Nabokov, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett, Rinde Eckert, Stephen Hawking, J. Krishnamurti, Brian Greene, Roy Littgenstein, Jackson Pollock, Joel and Ethan Coen, Cameron Crowe, Zaha Hadid, Christopher Wheeldon, Elaine Mackey, Sarah Snider. -- SM
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"I imagine...vernacular music from a culture that doesn't really exist." - SM
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Steven Mackey was born in 1956. His first musical passion was playing the electric guitar in rock bands based in northern California. He later discovered concert music and has composed for orchestras, chamber ensembles, dance and opera. Since the mid 1980s he has resumed his interest in the electric guitar and regularly performs his own work, including two concertos as well as numerous solo and chamber works.
Orchestral works have been commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony, among others.
Mackey is Professor of Music at Princeton University where he teaches composition, theory, twentieth century music, improvisation and a variety of special topics. As co-director of the Composers Ensemble at Princeton he coaches and conducts new work by student composers as well as twentieth century classics.
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