The works of Stephen Lias have been performed in concert and recital throughout
the United States and abroad by soloists and ensembles including The Stone Fort
Wind Quintet, The Monmouth College Chorale, The Louisiana Sinfonietta, The Red
Stick Saxophone Quartet, the NYU New Music Ensemble, and the Chamber
Orchestra Kremlin. His music is published by Conners
Publications, Brassworks4, Alry Publications, and Southern Music Publishers.
His awards include being selected as the 2003 Commissioned Composer for the
Texas Music Teachers Association, and receiving ASCAP
Standard Awards every year since 1999. !n 2006, he was selected as a finalist in the Chamber
Orchestra Kremlin's "Homage to Mozart" composition contest and his piece
"Pursued" was performed in Moscow and at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
His song cycle "Songs of a Sourdough" was a finalist in the 2008
NATS Art
Song Competition and is now
available from Centaur Records.
Dr. Lias is also active in the area of theatrical incidental music. He has
composed original music for over thirty professional theatrical productions
since 1989 including
I Hate Hamlet at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival,
The
Tempest at Stephen F. Austin State University, and
Death of a Salesman
at Auburn University at Montgomery. He served for eleven years as Composer in
Residence and Music Director at the Texas Shakespeare Festival.
As a teacher, Dr. Lias strives to lead his composition students to
genuine and artistic musical expression, while incorporating a strong
emphasis on contemporary media and cross-disciplinary collaboration. His
students have scored films, been commissioned and published, and are the
recipients of regional and national awards.
Stephen Lias received degrees from Messiah College, Stephen F. Austin
State University, and Louisiana State University. His teachers have
included Dinos Constantinides, Dan Beatty, and Darrell Holt. Dr. Lias
currently resides in Nacogdoches, Texas where he is Coordinator of Music
Studies at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is a member of ASCAP,
the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc, and the
American Music Center. He serves on both the Texas and National Boards
of the National Association of Composers/USA, and is the Founder and
Director of
The
Composer’s Site. He is the Texas delegate to the International
Society of Contemporary Music and serves on the editorial board of
World New Music Magazine.
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