SCAS News - 18 February, 2016

Composer Steven Stucky Has Passed Away

Composer Steven Stucky, born in 1949, sadly passed away on 14 February 2016. In collaboration
with former SCAS composer-in-residence Anders Hillborg and the Stenhammar Quartet, Steven
Stucky was teaching and directing the first Master Class in Composition that was held at the Swedish
Collegium in May, 2012. The Master Class was organized by the Collegium and the Royal Academic
Orchestra, Uppsala University. In May 2016, Stucky and Hillborg were due to teach the second Master
Class in Composition at SCAS. This Master Class has now been cancelled.

Steven Stucky was Given Foundation Professor of Composition Emeritus at Cornell University and a
member of the faculty of the Juilliard School. In 2005, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his
Second Concerto for Orchestra.

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