Steven Bryant

I'm writing a new work for beginning band (grade 1) with electronics! This is an open consortium led by band director Rachel Kesar (Bellmont Middle School, IN), and we'd love to have you onboard. Cost is low, and I plan to have it finished in time for Fall, 2025 performances. All the details here: GRADE 1 BAND + ELECTRONICS INFORMATION

I have more copies of the PRINTED version of my photo/piano book "Dusk - Seven Works for Solo Piano." These are all easy-to-intermediate level piano works, paired with my own photography. The PDF version of the book is also included in your purchase as an immediate download! Use Promo Code "photobook10" to take $10 off until December 16th, 2024. View it, listen to it, and buy it

Recent Band Works Aloft - 4' - grade 2 Synthetic Sunlight - 6' with electronics - grade 4 A Brighter Light - 2' fanfare - grade 5 A Chorus Loud and Strong - 2' fanfare - grade 4.5 Centennial Chimes - 2' fanfare - grade 4 This Silver World - 4' fanfare - grade 5 Recent Other Works The Lovers (from The Treachery of Sounds) - tango for Alto Saxophone and Piano -...

SHORT VERSION: I'm arranging The Automatic Earth for full symphony orchestra and electronics! The Durham Medical Orchestra is leading a consortium for this new version. Premiere: December 15th, 2024. Buy-in cost: $500 Commissioners get score and parts in perpetuity. Exclusivity for commissioner performance is 1 year from premiere (until December, 2025). Instrumentation:...

The original version of Dusk, commissioned by the Langley High School Wind Symphony, Andrew Gekoskie, conductor, was premiered by that group at the MENC National Convention in Minneapolis, MN, in April, 2004. It was a commission I almost didn't take: this was my sixth work for full band in 14 months, while I was working full-time in the IT Department at Juilliard, and I just couldn't see how I...

It's FINALLY here: a PRINTED version of my photo/piano book "Dusk - Seven Works for Solo Piano." These are all easy-to-intermediate level piano works, paired with my own photography. A limited run is printing now, and should start shipping next week (Dec. 11, 2023). The PDF version of the book is also included in your purchase as an immediate download! Use Promo Code "photobook5" to take $5 off...

Delighted to learn that the Texas PML (Prescribed Music List) has added both Ecstatic Fanfare and In This Broad Earth. Any band in Texas (or any other state that also use Texas' list) that wants to perform these works at their contest is welcome to acquire the works here at my website, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. Free recordings and downloadable PDF scores...

To all our friends and colleagues at Midwest Clinic, so sorry to miss you this year. Special shout-out to the Leander HS Wind Ensemble (playing In This Broad Earth) for their concert Thursday at 12, and the Pure Winds Quintet for their premiere of my new woodwind quintet arrangement of Dusk on Friday, 2pm. For SOLO & ENSEMBLE season: I've adapted Dusk for (almost every) solo instrument +...

For those of you at today's TBA clinic (July 23rd, 2021), thank you for attending, and for letting Jennifer, Omar, John, and I talk to you about your profession and what we hope to see and help you create in the future. Here are some of the resources we talked about, and some of my music I'd like to share with you. Composers: And We Were Heard Composer Diversity Database The Creative...

I've made "solo & ensemble" versions of Dusk, for a wide variety of solo instruments. Each one includes a Piano accompaniment, or you can play along with a pre-recorded video conducted by Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant! Download the video for free (both low- and high-resolution versions available). Sheet music and video downloads

The 5-voice flex version of The Low Arc of the Sun is available now! Solo instrument + Piano versions of Dusk are now available. If you're looking for an easy solo/ensemble work, or just want to play it for enjoyment, check out all the versions! I plan on adapting other of my works in this same fashion in the very near future. Solo piano versions of Dusk, Nocturne, The Low Arc of the Sun,...

UPDATE: 30 January 2021: MetaMarch (arr. Robert Ambrose) and The Low Arc of the Sun are now available in flexible versions. Details are on their respective pages. UPDATE: 4 September 2020: The Machine Awakes is now available in a FIVE-PART version (all strings, woodwinds, brass), with optional Piano and percussion parts. BONUS: the electronics tracks (stems) are newly available for you and...