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STEPHEN TRUELOVE
 


Stephen Truelove has taught Piano, Composition, and Keyboard Harmony at Southern Oregon University, and is active as a composer, teacher, and pianist.

EDUCATION

Stockhausen Courses Kürten 1998-2003, 2005-2006 (100 hours composition with Stockhausen, 60 hours analysis with Richard Toop). Stanford CCRMA Summer Workshop 1991, Denver Univ. at Aspen Seminar on Contemporary Music 1985. DMA Degree in Piano Performance Univ. of Oklahoma 1984. Darmstadt International Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik 1982 (Piano with Herbert Henck), Scholar Leadership Enrichment Program Seminar with Charles Roesn (25 hours) 1976, Naropa Institute 1974 & 1975, M.M. Degree in Composition Tulsa University 1970.

HONORS, PRIZES and COMMISSIONS

Adjudicator for The Stockhausen Composition Contest 2003. Southern Oregon University Drama Department: Music for the 2002 production of the Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus. Southern Oregon Youth Symphony Commission 1999 (Soundvision). First Prize The New Music Forum of Houston Composition Competition 1986. Silver Medal 1983 International Piano Recording Competition. Patrick Nagel Commission 1982 (Song Cycle III: November Days). First Prize Tulsa University Composition Contest 1970. First Prize Oklahoma Junior Symphony Concerto Auditions 1964.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, The Society of Composers’s, Inc., The American Music Center, Living Music Foundation, The Stockhausen Society, The Glenn Gould Foundation, National Association of Composers USA, American Composer’s Forum, and International Who's Who in Music Vol. 1, Classical 17th edition.

DMA DOCUMENT, PUBLICATIONS and UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS

“Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstuck XI: An Analysis of its Composition via a Matrix System of Serial Polyphony and the Translation of Rhythm into Pitch”, University Microfilms International, 1984. An article on the same subject was published in Vol. 36 #1 of Perspectives of New Music (Winter 1998). Essays, Commentary and Quotes in Quest of Evolutionary Aesthetics and Transformative Practices Regarding Artistic Creaton.

COMPOSITIONS

Many solo piano scores; duo piano; orchestra; songs and song cycles; choral music; chamber music: various ensembles with 1 and 2 pianos, for strings, for brass quintet, for speaker and piano; solo instruments: flute, clarinet, cello, violin, viola, horn, saxophone, guitar, banjo, harpsichord; electronic media: synthesizer, computer, software; improvisational scores; recorded improvisations; music for ballet, film, theater, and a mixed media chamber opera, Flowers and Butterflies.
All compositions are published by the composer, with scores and recordings available directly from the composer, and at www.SibeliusMusic.com Hear audio excerpts at the composer’s web page: http://www.under.org/cpcc/struelove.htm

ADDRESS
Stephen Truelove Tel: 541 488-5696
785 Twin Pines Circle
Ashland, OR 97520-3732
Email: stephent@ashlandnet.net