Compositions for sale:

*Duo for Cello and Piano (MarksPrint)
*Gasparilla Day for Band (Masters Music)

Compositions on rental by Theodore Presser Co.:

*Antares
for Orchestra and Tape [3333 4431 Timp+1 Pno Cel Hp Str Tape]
*Arcturus for Orchestra
[3333 4331 Timp+4 Cel/Pno Hp  Synth  Str]
*Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
[3333 4331 3Perc Pno/Cel  Solo Cello  Str   ]
*Concert Overture for Orchestra
[3222 4331 Timp+2 Str]
*Concerto No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra
[1111 1110 Timp+1 Str]
*Fragments from Sappho for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Piano
*Now-Music for 4 Tape Recorders and Dice
*Prelude and Toccata for Orchestra
[3332 4331 Timp+3 Hp Str]
*Putney Three for Woodwind Quintet, Piano and Tape
*Quintet for Brass
*Rituals for Dancers and Musicians for Flute (Ethnic flute doubles), Timp., Perc., Ethnic Percussion, Prepared Piano
*Symphony
[3222 4331 Timp+3 Cel/Pno Hp Str]
*The Tale of Issoumbochi for Soprano, Narrator and Chamber Ensemble
[Fl., Cl., Perc., Pno., Cel., Vcl.]
*These Three for Orchestra
[2222 ASax 4331 Timp+3 Pno Str Tape]
*Vega for Tape
*Western Orpheus for Solo Violin and Orchestra
[2222 2220 Timp+2  Pno/Cel  Hp  Solo Vln  Str]

David Ward-Steinman is Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at San Diego State University, where he directs the Comprehensive Musicianship and graduate composition programs. He has received many national awards for his compositions, as well as commissions from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,  Joffrey Ballet, San Diego Ballet, and other prominent ensembles and artists. His orchestral works have been performed by the Chicago Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, New Orleans Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Orchestra USA, and the Seattle Symphony, among others.

In 1968 he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the California State Universities and Colleges, and in 1992 an Outstanding Faculty Award from San Diego State University. In 1970-72 he was the Ford Foundation Composer-in-Residence for the Tampa Bay area of Florida; in the summer of 1986 he served as Composer-in-Residence at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina; in 1986-87 he was appointed University Research Lecturer at San Diego State University, and spent 1989-90 in Australia under a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, with residencies at the Victorian Centre for the Arts and La Trobe University in Melbourne.

He is the author of Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts and co-author of Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms. His music has been recorded on Harmonia Mundi, Crystal, CRI, ASUC-SCI, Advance, and Orion labels.

He holds degrees from Florida State University (BM cum laude), the University of Illinois (MM and DMA); he received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship from the University of Illinois for foreign study, was a post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in 1970, and attended the Summer Academy at IRCAM in Paris in 1995. His teachers included John Boda, Burrill Phillips, Darius Milhaud (Aspen), Milton Babbitt (Tanglewood), Nadia Boulanger (Paris), Wallingford Riegger, Homer Keller, and Edward Kilenyi (piano). He was born in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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