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Stephen Cohn Composer

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About Me

Stephen Cohn is internationally recognized for his music for the concert stage; scores for feature films, and television.His concert works have been performed and recorded by the world's finest chamber music ensembles in the United States and Europe, such as the Kansas City Symphony, Arditti Quartet, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chroma String Quartet. He has been Composer-in-Residence at The International Encounters of Catalonia in the south of France and has been commissioned to compose new works which have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Brussels, France, and Prague.His classical and commercial recordings have been released by Warner Bros., Motown, A&M Records, Columbia Records, Albany Records and At Peace Media.He has received an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Music", and his scores have been part of many award winning productions which featured such stars as Lily Tomlin, Joanne Woodward, Kathleen Quinlan, Colleen Dewhurst, William Shatner, and Wallace Shawn. His most recent award is the Parents’ Choice Gold Award for his 2003 CD release, “Two Together, An American Folk Music Suite”.
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Member Since: 2/10/2007
Band Website: stephencohn.com
Influences: Giovani Palestrina, J.S. Bach, W.A Mozart, L. V. Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Gustave Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Alban Berg, Gyorgy Ligeti, Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Samuel Barber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Joaquin Rodrigo, my father, Morris Cohn, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Cream, Burt Bacarach, The Mamas and the Papas, Simon and Garfunkle, The Romero Family, Walter Scharf, John Corigliano
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Record Label: Albany Music, Warner Bros., MCA, Columbia
Type of Label: Major