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University of Illinois Chicago music composer conductor Dean

Steve Everett is professor of music composition at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He was  professor of music at Emory University, a 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 served as Provost at the City University of New York Graduate Center and at Adelphi University (NY), was the Dean of the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Assistant Vice Provost and founded-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-seven different countries throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including at IRCAM-Paris 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), several International Computer Music Conferences, Resonances Arts Festival (Paris), New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, and at 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 conducting with Pierre Boulez and Otto-Werner Mueller in the USA.

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