Stephen Gorbos, D.M.A.

Assistant Professor, Composition

Email: gorbos@cua.edu

www.stephengorbos.com

Stephen Gorbos

Composition

American composer Stephen Gorbos (D.M.A., Cornell University, M.M., Yale University, B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University) writes music that navigates a wide palette of genres and influences, creating a unique synthesis between styles as diverse as American rhythm & blues, western classical music, and Javanese gamelan. Stephen has composed concert music for a range of ensembles and soloists, as well as music for film, theatre, and dance. Organizations such as the Minnesota Orchestra, the NOW Ensemble, the New England Philharmonic, and the Cuarteto Latinamericano have played Stephen’s pieces in concert halls across the US and in Europe, and his music has garnered awards from organizations such as ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, and the American Music Center. 

During the summer of 2008, Stephen was composer-in-residence at the Copland House in Peekskill, NY.   Stephen has also been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen and Bowdoin summer music festivals, Ostrava Music Days, the Joventuts Musicals festival in Torroella de Montgri, Spain, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, and the Chamber Music Academy and Composers Forum of the East.

Prior to his arrival at Catholic University in the fall of 2008, Stephen taught as a visiting instructor at the College of the Holy Cross during the 2007/2008 academic year.