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Paul Steenhuisen was born on 1965 in Vancouver, Canada, is a Canadian composer (b.1965). Discover Paul Steenhuisen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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1965

Paul Steenhuisen (born 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer working with a broad range of acoustic and digital media.

His concert music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, and often includes live electronics and soundfiles.

He creates electroacoustic, radio, and installation pieces.

Steenhuisen's music is regularly performed and broadcast in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.

He contributes all audio content and programming to the Hyposurface installation project, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Steenhuisen obtained his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Keith Hamel.

Between academic degrees, he studied with Louis Andriessen and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

While living in Amsterdam, he worked with Michael Finnissy in Hove, England.

1987

Since 1987, Paul Steenhuisen has made contributions to numerous magazines and journals, including Discorder (CiTR Radio, Vancouver), MusicWorks, Circuit, Wholenote Magazine, Anjelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Contemporary Music Review, and others.

1990

These include four prizes in the 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).

Music by Steenhuisen was selected for competition at the Gaudeamus Music Week.

1996

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.

He attended master classes and individual lessons with Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Jean-Claude Risset, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Frederic Rzewski, Magnus Lindberg, and others.

During his student years, Steenhuisen was laureate of more than a dozen national and international awards for his music.

1998

After a winter residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Steenhuisen became Associate Composer in Residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1998–2000).

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).

Pensacola has been performed by the Esprit Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

During this time, Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra commissioned another orchestral piece, Your Soul is a Bottle Full of Thirsting Salt.

Wonder, for orchestra, tape, and soprano, was commissioned by the CBC for the CBC Radio Orchestra, and was selected to represent Canada at the International Rostrum of Composers (UNESCO, Paris).

It was ranked third in the world, and ascribed the honour of recommended work, with subsequent broadcasts in twenty-five countries.

As a result, the Austrian Radio Philharmonic performed the work and commissioned Bread for Sylvain Cambreling and Klangforum Wien to perform at MuzikProtokoll in Graz, Austria.

2000

Steenhuisen is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, served on the Council of the Canadian League of Composers (2000–2008), and was president of the International Society for Contemporary Music, Canadian Section (2003–2008).

He serves on the editorial board of the World New Music Magazine.

2001

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, Florida), where Steenhuisen was a frequent guest.

2003

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).

2007

He served as director of the new studios until his resignation in 2007.

2009

In early 2009, the University of Alberta Press published its first music text, Steenhuisen's Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers, a collection of interviews with thirty-two composers.

Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers (UA Press, 2009) is a 314-page collection of interviews with composers.

2011

In 2011 Steenhuisen was awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch Staunton Award as the outstanding mid-career artist in music by the Canada Council.