Stephen Feigenbaum, Composer

Stephen Feigenbaum (b. 1989) is a contemporary composer of chamber, orchestral, and choral music. In 2007, his Serenade for Strings received the second-place award in the national competition for composition, Senior Division, sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), after receiving first-place awards in the Massachusetts and Eastern States competitions.

Stephen is the winner of the 2008 Young Composer Competition sponsored by the New York Art Ensemble. He also has been interviewed and his music performed on the National Public Radio program “From the Top.” In 2005, he received the ASCAP Foundation’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award and was a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 competitions.

His compositions have received awards and honors from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Davidson Institute, and Pikes Peak. In 2006, his oboe quartet All Worked Up was performed at Jordan Hall as part of the New England Conservatory’s Composers’ Series.

During the summers, Stephen has studied with Richard Cornell and Martin Amlin at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Mass., and with Stephen Coxe at the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program at Amherst College. He also has studied with Rodney Lister at the NEC Preparatory School and with Christos Koulendros. Stephen is continuing his study of music at Yale College, where he is a member of the class of 2011.