The music of composer Steven Rice (born 1979 in Lawrence, Kansas) has drawn increasing attention; among other recognitions, 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, including at music festivals June in Buffalo, Third Practice, and Imagine 2, 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, and from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (B.M.), where he studied with Charles Young. At the Eastman School of Music, he has studied with Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Robert Morris.

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