Stephen Cohn
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Stephen Cohn is an Emmy Award winning composer of concert and film music living in Los Angeles, California. His compositional style embraces an expanded tonality with a twenty first century perspective. His first string quartet, Eye of Chaos was premiered by the Arditti Quartet, who also recorded the work for release on an Albany Records CD entitled, Arditti Quartet California Composers. His chamber orchestra work, Noah’s Rhythm was premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conducted by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steven Stucky. He has been invited twice to be Composer in Residence at The International Musical Encounters of Catalonia which he attended in the south of France. His violin duet, Matin Sur les Collines de Ceret was performed at the Otzberg Summer Festival in Germany. He was given an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Music” for his chamber orchestra score for the documentary "Dying with Dignity", starring Colleen Dewhurst. In 2006, his orchestral work Finale, from Two Together, an American Folk Music Suite was premiered by the Kansas City Symphony. The same work is part of an At Peace Media CD release which won at Parents’ Choice Gold Award in 2003. Also in 2006, his work for choir and chamber orchestra commissioned by the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music, entitled The Family of God was premiered at Merkin Hall in New York City.
He has been given awards and commissions by American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers, The American Composers Forum, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Harris Foundation, Joan Palevsky, Carol and Joel Honigberg, The Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and The Parent’s Choice Foundation.
Selected Performances: The Family of God Merkin Hall, New York City - 2006, Finale, from Two Together, An American Folk Music Suite - Kansas City Symphony - 2006, Anticipation of Light - The International Musical Encounters of Catalonia - 2004, Eye of Chaos - Los Angeles - 1991, Belgium - 1993, London - 1995, Ceret, France - 2004, Matin Sur Les Collines de Ceret Ceret, France - 1996, 2002, Otzberg, Germany - 2004, Evolution and Remembrance - Ceret, France - 2004, Moods Of a Goddess - Chicago, 2000, Ceret, France - 2002, Out of the Ashes - Ceret, France - 2002, Noah's Rhythm - Los Angeles - 1994
Selected Film and TV Scores:
Dying with Dignity - Emmy Award - Outstanding Achievement in Music, Calrton,Your Doorman - MTM Productions/CBS - Emmy Award Winning Production, Hunger in the Promised Land - Emmy Award Winning Production, IT - ABC Television - Emmy Award Winning Production, Edith Ann's Christmas - Lily Tomlin ABC Special - Peabody Award Winning Production, Nickel and Dime - feature film - Columbia Pictures, Trapped – feature for USA Cable, Land of the Free - feature film, PM Entertainment, Pitch - feature film, Nucleus Entertainment, Angel Fist - feature film, Concorde/New Horizons, Normality – short film, Tango Productions, Zone Troopers - (orchestrations) feature film, Empire Pictures, Under the Rainbow – feature film (orchestrations) - Warner Brothers Pictures
[edit] External links
- Noah’s Rhythm Performance
- Composer in Residence
- Family of God
- Parent’s Choice Award
- Finale, KC Symphony
