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Greg A Steinke (1942 - ) Former Chair, Departments of Art and Music, (The Joseph Naumes Endowed Chair in Music), also Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon (now retired, 6/15/01); Associate Director, Ernest Bloch Music Festival (‘93–97) and Director, Composers Symposium (‘90–97) (Newport, OR); Former Dean, College of Fine Arts, Professor of Music, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois; Director of School of Music, Professor of Music (composition/theory), former member of Musical Arts Quintet (oboe), Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana; Professor of Music (composition/oboe), Assistant Director of School of Music, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Professor of Music (composition/theory), Chairman of Music Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, California; and Professor of Music (oboe, theory/composition), Director of School of Music, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Michigan born. B.M. ‘64, Oberlin Conservatory; M.M. ‘67, Michigan State University; M.F.A. ‘71, University of Iowa; Ph.D. ‘76, Michigan State University. Composition study with Joseph Wood, H. Owen Reed, Richard Hervig, Paul Harder and Lawrence Moss. Also former Professor of Music and Chairman of Music Department, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, and former faculty member at The Evergreen State College, California State University, Northridge, University of Maryland. Former musical director of the 20th Century Chamber Ensemble at the University of Maryland and the New Musical Arts Ensemble at Michigan State University; former member of the Winnipeg Symphony (First Oboe), University of Iowa Woodwind Quintet, Northwest Wind Quintet and New Art Players, University of Maryland Woodwind Quintet and Maryland Chamber Ensemble, the National Gallery of Art Orchestra, Tacoma Symphony, Woodwind Conspiracy of Portland, Arizona Opera (First Oboe), and Flagstaff Symphony. Currently active as a composer of chamber and large ensemble music with many published works and as an oboe soloist, specializing in contemporary music for oboe.
Awards from the Michigan Federation of Music Clubs, BMI and ASCAP;
grants from the University of Maryland Creative and Performing Arts Grants, the
Faculty and Research Committee Award, California State University, Northridge,
Linfield College Summer Research Grants Program (2), the University of Idaho
Research Council, Arizona Arts Commission Artist Special Project Grant, The
University of Arizona Fine Arts Incentive Grant, Tucson/Pima Arts Council Music
Composition Fellowship, and Ball State University Provost’s “Green for Green”
Committee Grant. Winner - ‘79
University of Louisville First International Composition Contest. Honorable
Mention - ‘92 “Connie Weldon” Tuba-Euphonium Composition Contest. First Prize -
‘94 Bergen Festival Composers’ Competition. Finalist (of 4) - ‘96 Vandoren
International Composition Contest. Winner, Solo Contrabassoon and Piano
Category - ‘00 5th Composers Competition “The Bass Nightingale.” Finalist (of
4)- ‘01 Seoul International Composers Competition. Winner of Delta Omicron
International Music Fraternity Composition Competition, ‘03. Honorable Mention
- ‘02 “Britten-on-the-Bay” Composition Competition Series XIII (Saxophone
Quartet). Special Mention – ’03 USA International Harp Competition (Solo Harp).
Finalist/Winner – ‘04 of COMA Open Score Project in England (Generic Quartet).
Honorable Mention - ’05, VIII International Composition Competition of the
Corfu Festival (Guitar).
Guest composer: 8th Annual Contemporary Music Festival, Ind. St. U.,
'75; First Annual International
Composition Contest, U. of Louis., '79 (and winner);
Symposium V (first place winner) and XII for New Band Music, U. of Rich.
and Old Dom. U., '80, '87; Annual
Festival of New Music, Bowling Green St. U., '80, ‘91; Charles Ives Center for American Music,
New Milford, CT, '82, ‘91; 14th
Annual International Electronic Music Plus Festival, U. of Tex., Austin
'85; New Music Festival XV and
XXI, Mem. St. U., '87, ‘93; Imagine ‘95, U. of Mem.; Fifth Symposium for New Woodwind Quintet Music, U. of Ga.,
'88; Contemporary Music Festival, ‘82 and New Music Festival ‘90, ‘91, W. Ill.
U.; Southwest Contemporary Music Festival and Conference, SW Tex. U., ‘90;
Birmingham So. Col., ‘90; Ariz. St. U., ‘90; 5/6/7/8th Biennial Festivals of
New Music, Fl. St. U., ‘89, ‘91, ‘93, ‘96; Hamilton College, ‘91; Lindenwood
College, ‘91; new music chicago's SPRING FESTIVAL '92; Crane Festival of
NEWMUSIC, ‘93; The Bergen Festival, ‘94; New Music Festival 95, Univ. of Mo.,
Columbia; Atlantic Center Fellow, 11-12/95; North American Music Festival ‘02,
Lynn Conservatory of Music, Boca Raton, FL; 6th Annual American
Music Week Festival in Bulgaria ’03, Sofia, BG. Performances at many
conferences of SCI and other miscellaneous performances across the US, Canada
and Europe.
Recent Commissions: CARVINGS for Synthesized Orchestra for Choreography by Patrick
Suzeau; WIND RIVER COUNTRY for Woodwind Quintet for University of Wyoming New World
Quintet, TOMORROW ON YESTERDAY for harpist, Carrol McLaughlin, NATIVE AMERICAN NOTES for the Lark String Quartet of NYC,
SANTA FE TRAIL ECHOES for Violist, Michelle
LaCourse, CARVINGS I for Wind Ensemble for BSU Wind Ensemble, MOTHER EARTH A Native
American View for
BSU Provost’s “Green for Green” Grant, ALL IN A MOMENT’S TIME for Viola and Orchestra for the
DuPage Symphony and EXPRESSIONS II for Two Saxophones, Piano and Percussion for Anna and
Joseph Wytko. Also revised the Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music, 9th Ed., Basic Materials in
Music Theory, 10th
Ed.,. Bridge to Twentieth-Century Music, Rev. Ed. for Allyn and Bacon (now Prentice Hall) and
Basic Contrapuntal Techniques, Rev. Ed. (with H. Owen Reed) for Warner Bros.
Publications, Inc. Article, “Music for Dance: An Overview” in The Dance Has
Many Faces, 3rd
Ed., Ed. by Walter Sorell, a cappella books.
Professional memberships in Society of Composers, Inc.
[formerly ASUC] (National Chair ‘88–97; former Editor of ASUC Monograph Series); NACUSA;
College Music Society; American Music Center; American Composers Forum;
International Double Reed Society; ASCAP; Art Culture Nature, Inc.
(Secty/Treas- ‘03–) and The Society for American Music.