As of June 2001, Greg A. Steinke retired from Marylhurst
(OR) University as Chair of Art and Music Departments,
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, and holder
of the Joseph Naumes Chair in Music, and is working
as independent composer and writer. In 2001, he spoke
on Native American and Eastern European music and
composition, at the College Music Society Pacific
Northwest Chapter Meeting, in Moscow, ID (Feb); at
Marylhurst University, (April and May); at Mary's
Woods Retirement Center, in Marylhurst (April); at
the 2001 International Conference of Art Culture Nature,
in Flagstaff, AZ (June); and at an Oregon Music Teachers
Association meeting in Portland (April). Native
American Notes, for string quartet, from the Coolidge
Quartet CD, was aired over WOMR-FM, Provincetown,
MA, February 2001. During fall 2001, he played oboe
with the Flagstaff Symphony. Recent and future textbook
publications are Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music,
ninth edition, from Prentice-Hall, September-October
2001; Basic Contraputal Techniques, revised
edition, from Time/Warner, March 2002; and Basic
Materials in Music Theory, tenth edition, from
Prentice-Hall, August 2002. He was a finalist for
the Seoul (Korea) International Competition for Composers
2001, sponsored by the Korean Society of 21st Century
Music, and received another ASCAP Award. For more
information, please see www.under.org/cpcc/gsteinke.htm
and www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/gsteinke.html.
Also see www.wam.umd.edu/~hborup/coolidgeownweb, for
Native American Notes; and www.Acoma-Co.com,
for Another New Beginning II. Steinke can be
reached at 6048 E. Mountain Oaks Drive, Flagstaff,
AZ 86004, or at oboegreg@yahoo.com.
Premieres
The Seoul International Competition for Composers
2001, March 2001, featured the premiere of the revised
version of Moments from White Blowing Daffodil
Seeds, for piano trio. In April 2001, Katherine
Kleitz, flute, and Karen S. Henry, of the Row Twelve
Contemporary Music Ensemble, presented the revised
version A Japanese Folk Suite, for oboe (or
flute) and reciter, at Tower Hill (MA) Botanic Garden.
The first United States performance of Memories
II A, for contrabassoon and piano, occurred with
Monica Fucci at the IDRS Convention, August 2001 in
Morgantown, WV.
Performances
In 2000, Another New Beginning II, for guitar,
was heard with Paul Reilly at Marylhurst (OR) University
(October); and with Peter Thomas, of the Seventh Species
Group, at the University of Oregon Festival of the
Millennium, in Eugene (November). Memories II-B
of Chief Joseph, for alto saxophone and piano,
was performed by Greg Balfany and Joyce Grill at the
La Crosse (WI) New Music Festival, November 2000.
The SCI Region 5 Conference included Three Early
Songs, for soprano and harp, at Wayne State University,
in Detroit, MI, November 2001.
Publications
Inquietude; solo flute; Music Makers, Inc.,
July 2001.
