Steve Everett is professor of music composition at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He has also served as professor of music at Emory University, as visiting professor of composition at Princeton University, and has been a guest composer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in Switzerland, Rotterdam Conservatoire, HKU Utrechts Conservatorium, Tokyo Denki University, and Eastman School of Music.

​

He has also served as Provost at the CUNY Graduate Center and at Adelphi University (NY), Dean of the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and founded and directed the Music-Audio Research Center and Javanese Gamelan Ensemble at Emory University in Atlanta.

​

Many of his recent compositions involve performers with computer-controlled electronics and have been performed in twenty-five different countries throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including at IRCAM and INA-GRM Radio France (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 Cologne (Germany), ICMC, Resonances Arts Festival (Paris), New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, and Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Music Midtown (New York).

​

Everett has received composition awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, and International Trumpet Guild. He has been a senior research fellow at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, and the Liguria Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy.

​

In addition to substantial experience conducting opera and orchestral repertoire, he has presented more than two hundred works of contemporary music as conductor and co-artistic director of Thamyris New Music Ensemble in Atlanta. His doctoral degree in composition is from the University of Illinois where he studied with Salvatore Martirano. He also studied composition with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Witold Lutosławski in England and studied conducting with Pierre Boulez and Otto-Werner Mueller in the USA.

​

EDUCATION

D.M.A.  Music Composition        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.M.  Trumpet Performance       Florida State University

M.M.  Music Theory                     Florida State University

B.M.  Music History & Literature Florida State University

​

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

Composition:      Peter Maxwell Davies    Dartington Hall, England

                             Witold Lutosławski         Dartington Hall

Conducting:        Pierre Boulez                  Carnegie Hall, NY

                             Otto-Werner Mueller     National Repertory Orchestra, Colorado

                             Edo de Waart                 Conductor’s Institute, San Francisco

Javanese Gamelan                                     Center for World Music Bali and Java, Indonesia

Indian music, Rotary Fellowship                Andhra Pradesh, India

​