Saturday, September 29, 2012

Steven Ebel, composer

Welcome!

I have started this as a website for people to look up my information exclusively as a composer.

I spend most of my time promoting my opera career, but want a forum to show people some of my works and a way to post info about new pieces, performances and ideas.  Feel free to comment.

More info to come soon: texts, list of works, texts, descriptions and links to Soundcloud.com.

Steve




Biography
Steven Ebel was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme as a tenor in 2009-2011 at the Royal Opera House-Covent Garden. Self-taught as a composer, he made history when he became the first singer/composer in the history of the Royal Opera House to perform his own work under its auspices in October 2009. Entitled Diary of a Young Poet, a staged 40 minute work for tenor, narrator and piano set to poems and prose by Rilke, commissioned by the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme. He also presented an excerpt from his opera Mogens in the ROH2 Exposure series and has had five song cycles premiered as part of a recital series at ROH: Divan Songs (tenor and piano), As I walk to her grave (for soprano and piano quintet), The being of all things (tenor and piano), Irish Lullabies (soprano and piano) and Der Schatzgräber (mezzo and piano). His International Suite for Solo Violin was premiered at the Royal College of Music in London and Turnings, a suite for woodwind trio, was commissioned and premiered by the Kandinsky Winds at the Chichester Festival. Cadillac Rain for voices, electric guitar and ensemble was recently performed by New Music New York this past summer. Other song cycles which he has premiered include The Fear – premiered at UW-Madison (2008), Vestiges – premiered at the community Church of NYC (2006), A Timbered Choir and Wedding Songs. In the USA, he served as Co-Director of New Music New York (NMNY), for which he has fulfilled many commissions, including the premiere of Look Out, a 35 minute cycle to poems of agrarian poet Wendell Berry, and The Privilege of Art, a composition for multiple voices and ensemble to a poem by Emerson. He has also been the recipient of a Puffin Foundation and Meet the Composer Foundation grants. He premiered The Fool's Air and Prophecy for voice and ensemble at Merkin Hall in New York City with Washington Square Contemporary Music Ensemble. In Germany he has received commissions from Musikakademie diapason in Karlsruhe where last year saw the premiere of Geh' aus mein Herz - Variationen for youth string quartet and sang the premiere of Ringlenätze, a comedic work for youth string orchestra and tenor this May. He is making his French debut as a performer and composer in October at the Theater du Capitole in Toulouse. A further commission in 2013 comes from dramatic soprano Margareta Brandt, a mono-opera on the subject of Maria di Magdelone in Finland. He is currently engaged as a singer at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Germany and has upcoming engagements in Munich, Toulouse and Santiago de Chile.



From the Press
this young American has a distinctive ear and an appealing voice
Keith McDonnell – musicOMH

"beautifully tonal, their chromatic progressions broken by refreshingly unexpected intervals."
Mark Valencia – What’s on Stage

" very promising . . . it was a suitably dark and sardonic score that showed us more than just
a glimpse of what may yet prove to be an exceptional talent. . ."
Anthony Lias – Opera Britannia

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