Stephen Dembski (Boston, Massachusetts USA 1949)

Stephen Dembski has been writing music for public performance for three decades; the NYTimes has described his music in terms of "the sensuous, ecstatic quality of late Romanticism" even while the London Telegraph detects in it "a pedigree reaching back to Ravel."  During the past decade he's worked increasingly as a conductor with ensembles of improvising musicians;  the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD called his Sonotropism (Music and Arts) "an exquisite piece of chamber jazz."  Recent premieres of his music have taken place in New York, Florence, and Madison (Wisconsin), where for a long time (following a checkered career of gainful employment) he's managed the graduate composition program at the University of Wisconsin.  Dividing his time between Madison and New York, where he works with a variety of musical organizations, he's currently working on an interactive installation of sources of sound and light, and an opera entitled Crow Soup, on a libretto written for him by the classic surrealist painter, author, and sculptor, Leonora Carrington.

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