Frank Stemper
Composer In Residence
http://www.frankstemper.com
fstemp@siu.edu
618-453-5817
Originally from Milwaukee, Frank Stemper teaches all levels of composition and music theory, computer composition and the History of Modern Music. He directs the University New Music Ensemble, is founder of the Center for Experimental Music, a state of the art computer composition facility, and since 1996 he has been Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Music.
His original music, available on several CD labels, has been critically acclaimed throughout the world and performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, England, Holland, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Latvia, Kiev and Japan. Larger compositions have been performed by the Romanian Radio Orchestra, the Filharmonica Mihil Jora, the Orquesta Sinfonica in Mexico, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, Austria’s Jugendsinfonieorchester Dornbirn, the Utrecht Conservatorium Orchest in Holland, as well as other contemporary music ensembles like Earplay (San Francisco), the Almont Ensemble (Los Angeles), the Altgeld Chamber Players (Carbondale), the Sylvan Wind Quintet (New York City), Pastiche (Louisiana), the Archaeus Ensemble (Romania), Catalyst (England) and many other musicians throughout the World.
His work has been supported by numerous grants from such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the American Music Center, 19 consecutive A.S.C.A.P. Awards, the New York Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer. His music has also received awards, such as the George Ladd Prix de Paris and Phi Kappa Phi Artist Artistic Achievement Award, and several other fellowships and residencies throughout the United States, Mexico, Eastern and Western Europe.
His teachers include composer Andrew Imbrie (Ph.D. - University of California-Berkeley), theorist David Lewin (M.A. - SUNY-Stony Brook) and pianist Robert Silverman (BMus - University of British Columbia - Vancouver).
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Courses
- MUS 280: Beginning Composition
- MUS 380: Composition
- MUS 480: Advanced Composition
- MUS 580: Graduate Composition
- MUS 365H: Chamber Music
- MUS 421: Advanced Analysis
- MUS 502B: Analytic Techniques