: Guest Composer Talk: Steven Kazuo Takasugi

About this event

The School of Music hosts a guest composer lecture by Steven Kazuo Takasugi from Harvard University.

Biography

Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Rieman and Baketel Fellow in Music at Harvard University, is a composer whose work involves the recording, collecting, and archiving of acoustic sound samples into vast databases of individual, performed instances, subjected to both sound processing and computer-assisted algorithmic composition in the context of live stage performance and music-theater settings.

Takasugi completed his master’s/PhD at the University of California, San Diego, and his work has been performed extensively worldwide. He is the recipient of many awards, including a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and an artist residency from the Japan Foundation. He is a renowned teacher of composition associated with master classes and academies in Singapore, Stuttgart, and Tel Aviv, as well as in Cambridge, Massachusetts.