Biography

Carolyn Steinberg graduated from North Texas State University with a Bachelor of Music degree in music theory in 1978. She went on to study composition with Lumila Ulehla at the Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

 where she received a masters degree, and with and Bernard Rands

Bernard Rands

Bernard Rands is a composer of contemporary classical music.Rands studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy.He held residencies...

 at Juilliard where she received a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1989. She also studied in Europe

Europe

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 with Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...

 in Siena

Siena

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, Italy

Italy

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, and Brian Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...

 and Francis Travis

Francis Travis

Francis Travis is an American-born Swiss orchestral conductor.Born in Detroit, Michigan, his advanced musical studies were at the University of Zurich, with a Ph.D. in Musicology after writing a dissertation on Giuseppe Verdi...

 in Germany

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During her studies, Steinberg began working as a music teacher. She taught at Freiburg

Freiburg

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Conservatory of Music from 1984–86, at Mannes School of Music from 1992–96, and at The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division, from 1993-2001. Steinberg received the Goddard Lieberson Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1990.

Works

Selected compositions include:

• La Ventana
• El nectar de Apam
• Fire in Los Alamos
• Ninananna
• Danzon Macabre
• In the Early Dawn
• Alchemy
• The Moon Dances Tonight
• The Jester and the Necklace
• What We Use
• Are You Shaky?
• Allemande
• Courante
• Sarabande
• Siciliano e Cubano
• Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Songs, Dances, Duos chamber music (2007)