Steven Takasugi

Steven Kazuo Takasugi (born 1960 in Los Angeles) studied composition with Noah Creshevsky, Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa and Roger Reynolds, as well as computer music with Charles Dodge, F. Richard Moore, and Harold Cohen. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of California San Diego and has held artists and guest residencies in Japan, Germany, France, Israel, and the United States. His work has been presented worldwide including Transit Festival, Leuven, Belgium, Ultraschall and MärzMusik, Berlin, HaTeiva, Jaffa, Israel, Symphony Space, New York, Stockholm New Music, State Theater, Freiburg, Bludenz Festival for Contemporary Music, Austria, ISCM Geneva, ICMC Thessaloniki, IRCAM, Paris, Asia Music Week 2000, Yokohama, Tempus Novum, Tokyo, The Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Germany. He’s the recipient of numerous awards including a Japan Foundation Artist Fellowship, a DAAD HSK, a Heinrich-Strobel Foundation grant, ASCAP, UC Regents Fellowship, the Muriel Gluck Award, and a special scholarship from the Mayor of Darmstadt. He has lectured extensively and is author of many articles on New Music and aesthetics. Takasugi teaches composition as an Associate in the Music Department in Harvard University's doctoral student composition program and is Managing Director of the Harvard Summer Master Courses in New Music Composition. He has taught at the University of California, San Diego, the California Institute of the Arts, the Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, and HaTeiva in Jaffa, Israel. He is permanent faculty at the International Summer Academy for Composition, Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In 2010 Steven Kazuo Takasugi was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.