Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
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.[1] Stucky worked with Karel Husa and Daniel Sternberg.[citation needed]
Stucky wrote 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.[2] 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.[3] Other noteworthy compositions by Stucky include 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.[4][5]
Stucky was an expert on the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski and authored the 1981 study Lutoslawski and His Music. He also was curator of the Philharmonia Orchestra's 2013 centenary celebration of that composer, Woven Words: Music Begins Where Words End. Stucky was the Given Foundation Professor of Composition at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[citation needed]
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.[6] In 2014 he became Professor Emeritus at Cornell and joined the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.[7]
Among the composers who studied with Stucky are 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, Stephen Andrew Taylor, Sean Shepherd, Chris Arrell and Jesse Jones.[8] He 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, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Tanglewood Music Center, and many others.[citation needed]
Stucky died of brain cancer at his home in Ithaca, New York on February 14, 2016. His survivors include his second wife, Kristen Frey Stucky, his two children from his first marriage to Melissa Stucky, Matthew and Maura, two brothers, and two sisters.[9]
Eight Songs from the Spanish Songbook (Hugo Wolf, orch. Stucky 2008), for mezzo-soprano & orchestra (Theodore Presser Co.)
Four songs for the Dolce Suono Ensemble and baritone voice ("Per questa bella mano", "Ruhe sanft" (from Zaide), and "Das Veilchen" by Mozart; "Erlkönig" by Schubert, arr. Stucky 2012) (Theodore Presser Co.)
Awards
1974: ASCAP Victor Herbert Prize for composition
1975: First Prize, American Society of University Composers Competition
1978: Composer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1982: ASCAP Deems Taylor Award (for "Lutoslawski and His Music")
1986: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1989: Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Music (Concerto for Orchestra No. 1)[31]
1991: Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission
1995: Special Commendation, National Association of Composers USA
1997: Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Centro Studi Ligure (Italy)
1998: Barlow Endowment Commission
2001: Aaron Copland Fund for American Music recording grant
2002: Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2003: Bloch Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
2005: Pulitzer Prize for Music for Second Concerto for Orchestra[4][5]
2006: Paul Fromm Composer-in-Residence, American Academy in Rome
2006: Elected a trustee of the American Academy in Rome
2006: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006: Joined Board of Directors of the Koussevitzky Music Foundation
2007: Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2008: Elected Chair of the Board of Directors, American Music Center
2011: Elected Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, New Music USA
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