Rand Steiger was born in New York City and lives in San Diego, where he draws inspiration from the natural landscape and the history of experimental music in Southern California.
Many of his compositions feature digital audio signal processing of acoustic instruments and propose a hybrid approach to just and equal-tempered tuning, exploring the delicate perceptual cusp between a harmony and a timbre that occurs when tones are precisely tuned. Examples include: Ecosphere, developed at Ircam and premiered by the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris; Traversing, premiered by the Southbank Sinfonia in London; Cryosphere, premiered by the ACO at Carnegie Hall, the Coalescence Cycle, premiered on a Miller Theater Portrait Concert by ICE, and the Introspective Trilogy, premiered by the JACK Quartet. In 2016 he was commissioned by the LA Philharmonic to create an installation that embedded 32 loudspeakers in clouds hanging in W.D. Concert Hall that played a series of compositions throughout the day for the entire season.
As a conductor, Steiger led a series of critically acclaimed concerts with the Ensemble Sospeso in New York City in the early 2000's, and the California EAR Unit in Los Angeles in the 1980's and 90's. He is currently Distinguished Professor and Conrad Prebys Presidential Chair at U.C. San Diego. A former Guggenheim, Rome Prize, and LA Philharmonic Fellow, he also served as Composer-in-Residence at the Qualcomm Institute, and as a Visiting Professor at Harvard, where he will return as the Fromm Distinguished Visitor in 2025.
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