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Steve Rouse, composer

Winner of the 1987 Rome Prize, Steve Rouse has received a Meet The Composer residency, an NEA Composition Fellowship, two awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and three Al Smith Artist Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council. He is included in the millennium edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, Ninth Edition.

Rouse’s works have been recorded for the Telarc, Summit, Coronet, and University of Louisville labels. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and joined the faculty of the University of Louisville in 1988, where he is currently Professor of Music and Chair of the Division of Music Theory and Composition. (Visit the Bio page for more information.)

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