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. Ensembles who have recently performed his work include; 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 University of Chicago New Music Ensemble (Chicago, IL), The Aeolus Quartet (Cleveland, Ohio) The Carpe Diem String Quartet (Delaware, OH) and Ensemble I&D (Porto, Portugal).

    Recent awards in composition include the 2010 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Contest, the 2009-2010 Austin Critics' Table Award for Best Original Composition, the George Lynn Memorial Composition Prize, 1st prize in the region VI 2009 ASCAP/SCI Student Composition Commission and a 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.