Steven Snowden (ASCAP) creates music for a diverse array of media including theater, dance, film, interactive multimedia installations, and the concert stage. Along with composition, he performs and promotes new music for horn, and constructs instruments for use in electro-acoustic improvisation and interdisciplinary collaborations.

    Raised in rural Southwest Missouri, Snowden began composition studies in 2002 at Missouri State University, received a Master’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is currently a doctoral composition fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Recently, Snowden’s work has been performed by The Willson Quartet (Madison, Wisconsin), Sotto Voce (Tuscaloosa, Alabama), The Playground Ensemble (Denver, Colorado), The Sacramento Youth Symphony (Sacramento, CA), The University of Colorado Wind Symphony (Boulder, Colorado), The Tasman String Quartet (Wellington, New Zealand), The Aeolus Quartet (Cleveland, Ohio) The Carpe Diem String Quartet (Delaware, OH) and Ensemble I&D (Porto, Portugal).

    Recent awards in composition include the Nancy and Ted Anderson Award, the Cecil Effinger Award, the George Lynn Memorial Prize, 1st prize in the region VI 2009 ASCAP/SCI Student Composition Commission and a 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.