as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2

Greg A. Steinke

Greg A. Steinke now resides in Green Valley, AZ, from late September to early May, and the rest of the year in Tierra del Mar, OR.  He was notified of the renewal of his ASCAP Standard Award for 2002-03. In 2002, he performed as an oboist with the Flagstaff Symphony, February 2; and at the CrossSoundNew Music Festival 2002 in Juneau, AK, August 2-18. He is preparing a revised edition of Basic Contrapuntal Techniques for Time/Warner for publication in March 2003.  In May 2002, his article on D. Antoinette Handy appeared in Women and Music in America Since 1900: AnEncyclopedia, published by Oryx Press, a subsidiary of Greenwood Publishing, Inc. New works include Three Japanese Vignettes (an imaginary triptych, Image Music XIX), for voice and Japanese ensemble; Yaponcha ("Wind Spirit," Image Music XX), for flute, viola and harp; and Alaskan Tableaux (Image Music XXI), for brass quartet; and he has commissions from the Row Twelve Contemporary Music Ensemble of Boston and from the Danish Guitar Quartet for new works for premieres in 2003.  On September 2, 2002, he won the 2002 Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity Composition competition for the flute-quartet version of Sacajawea - InMemoriam, with a premiere scheduled for their conference in July 2003. For more information on his compositions and publications, please see websites www.under.org/cpcc/gsteinke.htm, www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/gsteinke.html; for the Coolidge Quartet recording of Native American Notes, see www.wam.umd.edu/~hborup/coolidgeownweb; for the Lynn Harting-Ware guitar recording and publication of Another New Beginning II, see www.Acoma-Co.com.

Premieres

The premiere of The Dance of Life from Expressions, for string quartet, occurred with the  AleaContemporary Music Ensemble in Skopje, Macedonia, February 19, 2002.  Completed movements of Continental Drift, for percussion orchestra, were played first by the Northern Arizona University (NAU) Percussion Ensemble, Steven Hemphill, conductor, in Flagstaff, April 26, 2002.

Performances

On February 10, 2002, Inquietude, for solo flute, was played by Lenora Warkentinon a Sounds New program in Kensington, CA.  In 2002, Wind River Country, for woodwind quintet, was heard in its entirety at a New Music Festival with the Lynn University Conservatory of Music Ensemble of Boca Raton, FL, April 10; with the Sacajawea-In Memoriam movement performed by New Directions Ensemble of the Bakersfield (CA) Symphony, February 24, and, in its saxophone-quartet version, by the Joseph WytkoQuartet in Reno, NV, at the Regional CBDNA Conference, March 23.  Katherine Kleitzand Karen S. Henry, of the Row Twelve Contemporary Music Ensemble, presented A Japanese Folk Suite, for flute and reciter, in Boston and Cambridge, MA, April 6-7, 2002.  Northwest Sketches II, for flute, oboe, and piano was part of the 2002 New Music North Festival, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, June 21, 2002. In 2002, performances at NAU included Remembrances, for four trumpets and wind ensemble, by the NAU Symphonic Band, Richard McEnaney, conductor, at a school program, April 22, and at the SCI Region VII Conference, October 10; Memories II A, for bassoon and piano, with Kent Moore and Rita Borden, February 18; and Stanza I from Moments from Native American Notes, for chamber orchestra, by the NAU Youth Orchestra, under McEnaney, May 5.

Publications

Inquietude, Alry Music Publications (new publisher), June 2002.

Further Information

• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online