Stephen Cabell
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A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, New York-based composer Stephen Cabell has received considerable acclaim for his deft orchestration and propulsive sense of rhythm. A graduate of Michigan’s renowned Interlochen Arts Academy, Mr. Cabell also holds a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a master’s degree from the Juilliard School. His principal teachers have included Christopher Rouse, Jennifer Higdon, Richard Danielpour, and John Boyle.
As a recipient of the Marylyn K. Glick Young Composer Award, Mr. Cabell’s LUX received its premiere performance from the Indianapolis Symphony in early 2009, with the Indianapolis Star recognizing the composition as “an arrestingly-wrought work.” Stephen has also been recognized by ASCAP as the winner of two Morton Gould Young Composer awards, as well as the recipient of the 2008 Nadia Boulanger Prize, awarded to him at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. In 2006, Columbia University awarded Stephen the distinguished Joseph H. Bearns Prize for his orchestral composition Cosmicomic.
In addition to his compositional output, Stephen is a horn player and pianist. His knowledge of instrumental technique has had a substantial effect on his writing, with much of his catalogue devoted to works for brass ensemble, percussion, and full orchestra.
Mr. Cabell has served on the composition faculty of the Atlantic Music Festival in Waterville, Maine, since the organization’s inception in 2009. In New York, Stephen is also currently on the theory faculty of the Manhattan School of Music’s Pre-College Division and teaches theory and composition at the Kaufman Center’s Young Artist Program and Lucy Moses School.