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
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
Anthony Lias – Opera Britannia
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