Described as "surreal" music "to bewilder, amuse, and provoke" (Epoch Times), the works of composer Steven Rice (born 1979) have drawn increasing recognition; he took 1st Prize in the 2005 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award and received a 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award. His music has been performed throughout the United States by ensembles such as the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Juventas, as well as at concerts where he and Heike Burghart Rice perform music for organ and electronics. Rice's composing has been supported by the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Rice holds degrees from Bowling Green State University (M.M.), where he studied with Marilyn Shrude, Elainie Lillios, and Mikel Kuehn. At the Eastman School of Music, he has studied with Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Robert Morris.

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