Stephen Rush

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Stephen Rush is a Professor at the University of Michigan, where he works with students from music, dance, art, and engineering as the director of the Digital Music Ensemble. He has trained many significant young composers for dance, including Danny Roumain (Bill T. Jones), Chris Peck (John Jasperse, David Dorfman and Roseanne Spradlin) and Jon Moniaci (Chase Granoff and Beth Gill).

Rush has had premieres at the Merce Cunningham Studio and Merkin Hall in New York, Gyory Ballett in Hungary;at many universities and colleges in the USA; and internationally in Canada (Toronto's Fringe Festival), Central and South America, most countries in Europe, and in Japan, India and Russia. His concert music has been published by Dorn, CRC and C. Alan Publications, and has released over 20 CD’s .

Rush has premiered and recorded his music with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Symphony and members of the New York Philharmonic, and has released recordings on CALA, MMC Records, Centaur O.O.Discs, Equilibrium, Canterbury House and CRC Publications. He has received grants from Meet the Composer, New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, United States Information Agency, and American Music Center. He is also known as a pianist, performing with Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Swell, Eugene Chadbourne, Pauline Oliveros, his multi-media jazz group "Yuganaut", “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and the late Peter Kowald. Recently he has been quite active as an “interviewer”, conducting public interviews with artists as disparate as Laurie Anderson, Desmond Tutu, Swami Chinmayananda, LaMonte Young, and Ravi Shankar.