Paul Steenhuisen

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">Paul Steenhuisen (born Vancouver, Canada, 1965) is an independent composer working with a broad range of acoustic and digital media.&nbsp; His concert music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, and often includes live electronics and soundfiles.&nbsp; Additionally, he creates electroacoustic, radio, and installation pieces.&nbsp; Steenhuisen obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Keith Hamel.&nbsp; Between academic degrees, he studied with Louis Andriessen and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Royal Conservatory of Music, The Hague.&nbsp; While living in Amsterdam, he also worked with Michael Finnissy in Hove, England.&nbsp; Subsequently, he was one of ten composers selected to take part in the Cursus de Composition et Informatiques at IRCAM (Paris, 1996/97), where he had lessons with Tristan Murail.&nbsp; He also attended masterclasses and individual lessons with Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Jean-Claude Risset, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Frederic Rzewski, Magnus Lindberg, and others.</span><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">During his student years, Steenhuisen was a laureate of more than a dozen national and international awards.&nbsp; These include four prizes in the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Young Composers Competition, seven in the PROCAN/SOCAN Competition, first prize in the Vancouver New Music Composers Competition, and the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal as the outstanding student in all faculties (UBC, 1990).&nbsp; Music by Paul Steenhuisen was also selected for competition at the Gaudeamus Music Week.&nbsp; After a winter residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Paul Steenhuisen became Composer in Residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1998-2000, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Music Director).&nbsp; At the behest of the TSO, he wrote the chamber work “Ciphering in Tongues”, and orchestral pieces “Airstream”, and “Pensacola” (a melodrama for orchestra, computer, and spatialized brass).&nbsp; “Pensacola” has also been performed by the Esprit Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Roberto Abbado, conductor), and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (with<span class="style_1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; opacity: 1; ">Alexander Mickelthwate</span>).&nbsp; During this time, Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra commissioned another orchestral piece, “Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt”.&nbsp;<br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; ">Wonder”, for orchestra, tape, and soprano, was commissioned by the CBC for the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, and selected to represented Canada at the International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO, Paris).&nbsp; It was ranked third in the world, and ascribed the honour of ‘recommended’ work, with subsequent broadcasts in twenty-five countries.&nbsp; As a result, the Austrian Radio Philharmonic also performed the work (Arturo Tamayo, conductor) and commissioned Bread for Sylvain Cambreling and Klangforum Wien to perform at MuzikProtokoll in Graz, Austria.&nbsp; “Bread” was also performed at the 2001 ISCM World Music Days in Yokohama, Japan, by the Tokyo ensemble COmeT, and at the BONK festival (Tampa, USA), where Steenhuisen was a frequent guest.&nbsp; In 2003, Dr. Steenhuisen was appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Alberta, where he was the founder of the Electroacoustic Research Studios (UA-EARS).&nbsp; He served as director of the new studios until his resignation in 2007.&nbsp; UA-EARS studios were created with major project funding from the Endowment Fund for the Future, the Faculty of Arts, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.&nbsp; In early 2009, the University of Alberta Press published its first music text, Steenhuisen’s Sonic Mosaics:&nbsp; Conversations with Composers, a collection of interviews with thirty-two composers. &nbsp;<br></span></div>

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