Contemporary Music Forum: REPLACE

STEVE ANTOSCA

COMPOSER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

American

CMF director Steve Antosca has a Master’s degree in Computer Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Composition at George Mason University. He is Director and composer member of the Contemporary Music Forum, the new music ensemble in residence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Mr. Antosca is the founder of the music group edgEnsemble.

Mr. Antosca has been guest composer at the Southeastern Composer’s League 1997 Festival of New Music and at Radford University’s New Horizons 2002 and 2005 Festivals. He has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work shadowland is represented in the MIT publication The Csound Book. He has been a regular guest lecturer at the University of Maryland as part of their College Park Scholars program.

He has received numerous grants for the creation of new compositions and for teaching technology. He has been an Artist-in-Residence with the Music Department at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, working with young musicians interested in incorporating technology in their music.

Mr. Antosca’s compositions have been performed in the Washington area at the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Institute, at Dance Place, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Levine School of Music, at Radford University, George Mason University, George Washington University, the University of Virginia and at the University of Maryland. In New York, his dance works have been premiered at Pace University at their 1995 Dance Festival and in 1999 at the Joyce SoHo.

In January of 2001, Mr. Antosca produced the “Exploring the American Piano” concert for the Smithsonian’s Piano 300 Exhibition, celebrating 300 years of the piano. He premiered his work invisible landscape for piano and conducted electronics, which was regarded by the Washington Post as “the highlight of the evening.” His composition something else for interactive computer and percussion premiered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in April, 2005 and was described as “the evening’s dazzler…joining real-time computer-processed sounds with percussion.”

Recent commissions include a composition for dance, computer processed audio and text premiered in September 2002 at the Kennedy Center as part of their Local Dance Commissioning Project (revised as such a pure force) and a commission for pianist Laurie Hudicek for traces of spirit whispers for piano and computer processed audio, premiered at the Kennedy Center in September of 2003. One becomes Two for violin, viola or cello was commissioned for the 2006 Johansen International Competition and was premiered by Lina Bahn at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC in March of 2006.

Mr. Antosca is collaborating with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on a concert of new music by Native American composers to be presented in October of 2006. In 2006 he founded and became co-Director of the French-American Academy, dedicated to the performance of French and American modern music and to the education of composers and performers from both nations, furthering the integration of our cultures.


	Home Current Season Individual Bios History Mission Our Board Our Supporters Directions Donations From Our Chairman Our Reviews	STEVE ANTOSCA COMPOSER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR American CMF director Steve Antosca has a Master’s degree in Computer Music Composition from The Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Composition at George Mason University. He is Director and composer member of the Contemporary Music Forum, the new music ensemble in residence at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Mr. Antosca is the founder of the music group edgEnsemble. Mr. Antosca has been guest composer at the Southeastern Composer’s League 1997 Festival of New Music and at Radford University’s New Horizons 2002 and 2005 Festivals. He has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work shadowland is represented in the MIT publication The Csound Book. He has been a regular guest lecturer at the University of Maryland as part of their College Park Scholars program. He has received numerous grants for the creation of new compositions and for teaching technology. He has been an Artist-in-Residence with the Music Department at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, working with young musicians interested in incorporating technology in their music. Mr. Antosca’s compositions have been performed in the Washington area at the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Institute, at Dance Place, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Levine School of Music, at Radford University, George Mason University, George Washington University, the University of Virginia and at the University of Maryland. In New York, his dance works have been premiered at Pace University at their 1995 Dance Festival and in 1999 at the Joyce SoHo. In January of 2001, Mr. Antosca produced the “Exploring the American Piano” concert for the Smithsonian’s Piano 300 Exhibition, celebrating 300 years of the piano. He premiered his work invisible landscape for piano and conducted electronics, which was regarded by the Washington Post as “the highlight of the evening.” His composition something else for interactive computer and percussion premiered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in April, 2005 and was described as “the evening’s dazzler…joining real-time computer-processed sounds with percussion.” Recent commissions include a composition for dance, computer processed audio and text premiered in September 2002 at the Kennedy Center as part of their Local Dance Commissioning Project (revised as such a pure force) and a commission for pianist Laurie Hudicek for traces of spirit whispers for piano and computer processed audio, premiered at the Kennedy Center in September of 2003. One becomes Two for violin, viola or cello was commissioned for the 2006 Johansen International Competition and was premiered by Lina Bahn at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC in March of 2006. Mr. Antosca is collaborating with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on a concert of new music by Native American composers to be presented in October of 2006. In 2006 he founded and became co-Director of the French-American Academy, dedicated to the performance of French and American modern music and to the education of composers and performers from both nations, furthering the integration of our cultures.