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DAVID WARD-STEINMAN
served as Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at
San Diego State University where he directed the Comprehensive
Musicianship and graduate composition programs. He received many
national awards for his compositions as well as commissions from the
Chicago Symphony, Joffrey Ballet, San Diego Ballet,
and other prominent ensembles and artists. His music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, New
Orleans Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Orchestra USA, and the
Seattle Symphony.
In 1968 Dr. Ward-Steinman received the Outstanding Professor Award from the
California State Universities and Colleges, and in 1992 an Outstanding
Faculty Award from San Diego State University. In 1970-72 he was the
Ford Foundation Composer-in-Residence for the Tampa Bay area of
Florida; in the summer of 1986 he served as Composer-in-Residence at
the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina; in 1986-87 he was
appointed University Research Lecturer at San Diego State University,
and spent 1989-90 in Australia under a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award,
with residencies at the Victorian Centre for the Arts and La Trobe
University in Melbourne.
Ward-Steinman is the author of "Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts"
and co-author of "Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms." His music has
been recorded on the Harmonia Mundi, Crystal, CRI, ASUC-SCI, Advance, and
Orion labels.
David Ward-Steinman received degrees from Florida State University (BM cum
laude) and the
University of Illinois (MM and DMA); he received the Kinley Memorial
Fellowship from the University of Illinois for foreign study, was a
post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in 1970, and attended the
Summer Academy at IRCAM in Paris in 1995. His teachers included John
Boda, Burrill Phillips, Darius Milhaud (Aspen), Milton Babbitt (Tanglewood),
Nadia Boulanger (Paris), and Edward Kilenyi (piano).
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