Steven Bryant

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...

Lots going on this Fall! Two World Premieres (both for orchestra, both conducted by my amazing wife!) Shouting Defiance, adapted from Mvt. I of Pendulum, arranged for the Texas Region XIII Symphony Orchestra, Verena Mösenbichler - Bryant conducting Concerto for Trombone, Joseph Alessi and the Durham Medical Orchestra, Verena Mösenbichler - Bryant conducting Residencies 10/28 - 11/1:...

Since 1995, I've been designing, coding, and maintaining my website myself, and it had grown into a byzantine mess of barely-working PHP and CSS held together with duct-tape and hope. Things like SoundCloud, YouTube videos, online shop, etc have all been bolted on Frankenstein-style over the years. Also, it was unusable on phones (the last redesign was in 2002!). Anyhoo, here's the new site,...

I've been writing so much music over the past year, I haven't taken time to talk about any of it! Tomorrow, 16 March, the Indiana All-State Honor Band, under the direction of John Lynch (Director of Bands at UGA, soon to be Sydney Conservatorium!), will premiere my brand new work, sevenfive. Based on the same core material as the work I wrote last year for the Gaudete Brass Quintet, this is not...

Hey y'all! (I grew up in Arkansas, I have license to say "y'all") The Texas Music Educators Association convention is 11 days away! This year, I'll be giving a clinic with composer Alex Shapiro, and conductors Robert Sloan and Miller Asbill covering technology and music education - everything from our pieces that use electronics (and how that works), to technology in the classroom/rehearsal...

The annual Midwest Clinic in Chicago is almost here, and I'm very fortunate to have three performances of my work this year, as well as giving my Midwest debut as a clinician with two clinics! If you'll be there, I hope you're able to come to one or all of these, and please say "hello" if you do! Here's the list: CLINICS: WED. 12/18, 2:30 p.m.: I will participate in a clinic with composer...

The guest residency season erupts this coming week, when I travel to the University of Missouri to work with their Wind Symphony and coach their well-known New Music Ensemble. Concert is Monday night, 9/30, and it's free!! The Wind Symphony is performing my Anthem and Ecstatic Fanfare, so if you have a hankering for some of the brighter, shinier music in my catalog, come to the Missouri...

I'm the "TBA 2013 Featured Composer" this week at the convention in San Antonio, TX, and having a great time! The Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras Wind Ensemble gave a fantastic performance of "Suite Dreams" yesterday, and this afternoon the Cedar Park Winds are about to open their concert with "", and tonight, the USAF Band of the West will perform "Wings That Work". Finally, I'll give a clinic...

It's only three weeks until I'm in Chicago for the 2012 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic! I haven't been to Midwest since 2009, so I'm particularly excited return this year and see everyone's haggard-drank-too-much-last-night-8am-concert-music-soaked visages! I'm fortunate and honored to have four performances this year, including the USAF Band performing two movements of my Concerto for Wind...

Another full semester of guest composer residencies, world premieres, and even a little conducting in Orchestra Hall in Chicago. The festivities begin... NOW!

JANUARY 28-29 [Baltimore, MD]: Peabody Conservatory - David Vickerman's Digital Embrace, featuring Christopher Stark's Augenblick, Jason Gerraughty's TWEAK, and my Ecstatic Waters - a full concert of works for winds, percussion, and...

Once again, I'm fortunate to have a lot of groups performing my music (particularly Ecstatic Waters and the Concerto for Wind Ensemble) and bringing me in to work with them this Fall. Below is the party bus tour schedule. If you're in any of these areas, please come by! SEPTEMBER 12-14 [Athens, GA]: University of Georgia - John Lynch's group continues the consortium premiere series of my 

Crazy weekend of performances ahead! (Late) tonight, Verena and I drive down to Columbia, SC, for the University of South Carolina Band Clinic, featuring the three USC bands, the Palmetto Concert Band, and hundreds of high school students in 4 honor bands. And almost all of them are doing at least one piece of mine. Scott Weiss and the Univ. of So. Carolina Wind Ensemble kicks the whole thing...