David Ward-Steinman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music at San Diego State University. He has received many national awards and commissions for his compositions, from groups such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, NY Joffrey Ballet, San Diego Ballet, Music Teachers Nat'l. Assoc., Nat'l. Assoc. of College Wind & Percussion Instructors, American Harp Society, and other prominent ensembles and artists. His orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, New Orleans Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra USA, and the Seattle Symphony, among many others.

In 1968 he 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 1982 he was artist-in-residence and curriculum consultant for the Univ. of North Sumatra, and made a concert/lecture tour of Indonesia under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency. 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. He has been a featured guest composer and lecturer at over 75 campuses here and abroad. For the summer of 1996 he has been appointed Master Teacher in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL.

He is the author of Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts and over fifty published compositions, and co-author of Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms. His recent Harmonia Mundi CD and cassette recording with the City of London Sinfonia of his Concerto No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra, conducted by David Amos, appeared on the Grammy Award nomination list in 1991. Other recordings appear on Crystal, CRI, ASUC-SCI, Advance, Crest, and Orion labels.

Dr. Ward -Steinman received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship from the Univ. of Illinois for foreign study, was a post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in 1970, and participated in 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, 1958-59), and Edward Kilenyi (piano)

Biographical entries on David Ward-Steinman
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