Alexander Sigman

Alexander Sigman (1980) is currently in the dissertation phase of the doctoral program in Music Composition at Stanford University, having studied primarily with Brian Ferneyhough.  He has pursued further post-graduate study with Chaya Czernowin at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna (2007), and is attending the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague during 2007-2008.  Prior to Stanford, Sigman obtained a BM in Music Composition and a BA in Cognitive Sciences from Rice University. He has received performances at several music programs and festivals, such as Centre Acanthes (2002, 2003),June in Buffalo (2005,)  the Darmstädter-Ferienkurse (2006),  the Abbaye de Royaumont (2006), and the Wellesley Composers Conference (2007). His music has been performed in France, Germany, Austria, and the US by such ensembles as the Arditti Quartet, les Percussions de Strasbourg, Mark Menzies/Ensemble Inauthentica, and Ensemble SurPlus, as well as soloists such as Magnus Andersson  and Françoise Rivalland. Since his undergraduate studies, Sigman has received several  commissions, awards and grants, including the American Composers’ Forum Encore grant (2005-2006),  Columbia University’s Bearns Prize (2006), a Fulbright scholarship to the Netherlands (2007-2008),  and a fellowship for a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (to commence October 2008).   In June 2007, he was composer-in-residence at the Musiques Démesurées festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France.