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Steven Stucky (; born November 7, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. ==Life and career== Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he studied music in the public schools and, privately, viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and composition with Macon Sumerlin. He attended Baylor University and Cornell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Steven Stucky biography )〕 Stucky's principal composition teachers were Richard Willis, Robert Palmer, and Karel Husa; his principal conducting teacher was Daniel Sternberg. Stucky has written commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and St. Paul. He was long associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was resident composer 1988-2009 (the longest such affiliation in American orchestral history); he was host of the New York Philharmonic's Hear & Now series 2005-09; and he was Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year for the 2011-12 season. For Pittsburgh, he composed ''Silent Spring'', in honor of the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's epochal book of the same title. He teamed with the celebrated pianist and author Jeremy Denk to create his first opera, ''The Classical Style'' (based on the celebrated book by Charles Rosen), which premiered in June 2014 at the Ojai Music Festival. Among his other noteworthy compositions are the symphonic poem ''Radical Light'' (2007), ''Rhapsodies for Orchestra'' (2008), the oratorio ''August 4, 1964'' (2008), a Symphony (2012), and his Second Concerto for Orchestra (2003), which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Music. A respected expert on the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski and author of the definitive 1981 study ''Lutoslawski and His Music'', he was curator of the Philharmonia Orchestra's 2013 centenary celebration of that composer, titled ''Woven Words: Music Begins Where Words End.''〔http://woven-words.co.uk〕 He was Given Foundation Professor of Composition at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. There he founded Ensemble X and led it for nine seasons, from 1997 until 2006, while at the same time he also was the guiding force behind the celebrated Green Umbrella series in Los Angeles. He has also taught at Eastman and Berkeley, the latter as Ernest Bloch Professor in 2003. After several earlier teaching and conducting visits, in 2013 he became artist-faculty composer-in-residence at the Aspen Music Festival and School. In 2014 he became Professor Emeritus at Cornell and joined the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.〔http://www.juilliard.edu/about/newsroom/2013-14/composers-matthias-pintscher-and-steven-stucky-join-juilliard-schools〕 Among the prominent composers who studied with Stucky are Stephan Prock, Fred Cohen, James Grant, Joseph Phibbs, Marc Mellits, Robert Paterson, David Conte, Thomas C. Duffy, Yotam Haber James Matheson, Steven Burke, Xi Wang, Spencer Topel, Diego Vega, Fang Man, Anna Weesner, Hannah Lash, Andrew Waggoner, Sean Shepherd, Yotam Haber, Chris Arrell, Jesse Jones, Eric Nathan, Julia Adolphe, and many others. He has taught master classes and served residencies around the world, including at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, Rice University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Tanglewood Music Center, and many others. In his review of the chamber piece ''Cantus'' for the London-based Bachtrack.com, Thomas May described Stucky as "a masterful colorist who exploits his sextet of players to paint with an orchestrally rich palette of sonorities: bell-like chimings and sparkling flecks from percussion and piano create a mysterious aura to suggest something imminent, an event horizon we long to cross."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A gorgeous chamber music première in Seattle )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Stucky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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