Professor of Music
Director, Center for Faculty Development and Excellence
Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Emory University
1599 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, Georgia 30322 USA
tel. 404.712.4161
steve.everettATemory.edu
www.steveeverett.org
Creativity Conversation - Steve Everett, composer; Natasha Trethewey, poet; and Rosemary Magee, Emory University Vice President and Secretary
• Office of the Provost "Great Scholars - Great Works"
Video interview Music and Digital Technology Converging at Emory
• Research and teaching areas:
Technology and real-time interaction in live performance
Cross-cultural influences in music
Philosophy of art and technology
Interview: At the Intersection of Music and Science with Robert Spano (Conductor, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) and Martha Grover (Professor, Dept. Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Conversation on "Technology and Experiencing the Arts" with Salman Rushdie and Robert Spano, March 2011
• Courses:
Metaphysics and Music (Spring 2010)- co-taught with Robert Spano, Distinguished Artist in Residence and Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Creativity and Collaboration
Hybrid Vigor in Music
New Art: Digital New Media and the Avant Garde
Music of India
Conducting Sonic Generator with soprano, Donatienne Michel-Dansac in Philippe Leroux's Voi(REX) for soprano, ensemble, and live electronics, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta 2010
Premiere of Bleached White for flute and live electronics at the
Detriot New Music Festival 2008
KAM: Ki Ageng Mangir an interactive shadow play at the
50th SEM Conference 2005
Heading Level 3
RECENT COMPOSITIONS
Ophelia's Gaze - a chamber opera
March1911 - string quartet - Vega Quartet
Warrior Woman Pantoum - digital audio with dance- Anna Leo, choreographer
Quiet Silence - marimba and live diffusion - Sam Solomon (Juilliard School)
Quiver Songs - shakuhachi, Yoshio Kurahashi and guitar, Brian Luckett
CONDUCTING
Philippe Leroux - Voi(REX) - Sonic Generator with soprano, Donatienne Michel-Dansac
Elliott Carter - TripleDuo - Thamyris New Music Ensemble with guest pianist, Ursula Oppens
Steve Mackey - Deal for solo guitar and chamber orchestra - Steve Mackey, guitar wth Thamyris
Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King - Thamyris with guest vocalist, Haleh Abghari
Christopher Rouse - Rotae Passionis - Thamyris
Javanese gamelan ensemble:
Wayang kulit with Midiyanto - Emory Gamelan Ensemble, director, kendhang, rebab, and gender
MORE INFORMATION
Conducting-Performing Experience
BIOGRAPHY
Steve Everett is Professor of Music and teaches composition, computer music, and directs the Music-Audio Research Center and and is Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. In addition he has been a visiting professor of composition at Princeton University and has been a guest composer at Eastman School of Music, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in Switzerland, Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, and Utrecht School of the Arts.
Many of his recent compositions involve performers with computer-controlled electronics and have been performed in twenty different countries throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including at IRCAM and INA-GRM Radio France in Paris, Re-New Arts Festival-Copenhagen, Orgelpark- Amsterdam, The Esplanade-Singapore, Korea Computer Music Festival-Seoul, Melbourne-Australia, Royal Northern College of Music-England, Amerika Haus in Cologne-Germany, Tokyo Denki University-Japan, Spark Festival of Electronic Arts, ICMC, Resonances Arts Festival-Paris, SEAMUS, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, and Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Music Midtown in New York.
He has received composition awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, and International Trumpet Guild. He is recorded on SCI, Crystal, Mark, Frog Peak and ACA Digital Records. He has been a resident research fellow at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, Liguria Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy, and at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. In 1998 he received the Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts, awarded by the City of Atlanta, the city’s highest recognition of artistic achievement.
In addition to substantial experience conducting opera and orchestral repertoire, he has presented over 200 works of contemporary music as conductor of Thamyris New Music Ensemble in Atlanta since 1992. His doctoral degree in composition is from the University of Illinois studying with Salvatore Martirano. He also studied composition with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Witold Lutosławski at Dartington Hall in England and has received foundation support for music study in Bali, Java, and India.
At Emory University, he has served as Chair of the Department of Music, Interim Director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Chair of the Faculty Council, and President of the University Senate.