Composer Stephen Paulus is fluent in all genres and has over 200 works to his credit. A recipient of both Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, commissions have come to him from the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and many others. He has been a Composer in Residence with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra and the Dale Warland Singers--working with conductors Neville Marriner, Edo de Waart, Robert Shaw, Yoel Levi, George Hanson and Dale Warland. Artists who have commissioned him are numerous and range from Thomas Hampson, Cynthia Phelps, William Preucil, Robert McDuffie, Hakan Hagegard, and Evelyn Lear to Doc Severinsen and Leo Kottke. Chamber commissions have come from the Cleveland Quartet, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Friends of Music at the Supreme Court and the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. He has been a featured composer at the Tanglewood Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival and, in the U.K., the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals. Paulus has written several operas, four of them commissioned by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. His opera THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE was the first American production to be presented at the Edinburgh Festival in September of 1983. Other opera companies who have presented his works include Washington Opera, Greater Miami Opera Association, Minnesota Opera, and the Boston Lyric Opera. His newest opera, SUMMER, has recently been completed for the Berkshire Opera Company. Paulus is currently at work on HELOISE AND ABELARD, an opera commission from the Juilliard Opera Center. Stephen Paulus is one of America's most frequently recorded composers, with his music being represented on nearly 40 CDs. These include CDs issued from d'Note Classics, New World, Albany, Elektra/Nonesuch, and Koch International Classics, among others. He is a co-founder of the American Composers Forum and is published by Paulus Publications and European American Music Corporation. He serves on the ASCAP Board of Directors as the Concert Music Representative, a post he has held since 1990.
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