Lang - String Of Pearls

Ferneyhough - Bone Alphabet

Xenakis - Rebonds B And A

Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - I. Tenju-an Garden Of Nanzen-ji Temple

Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - II. Many Pleasures (Garden Of The Kinkaku-ji)

Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - V. Moss Garden Of The Saiho-ji

Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - III. Dry Mountain Stream

Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - IV. Rock Garden Of Garden Of Ryoan-ji

Saariaho - Six Japanese Gardens - VI. Stone Bridges

Reynolds - Watershed I

Gordon - XY

Reynolds - Autumn Island

Lang - Unchained Melody

Lachenmann - Intérieur I

Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family.  Hailed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as, “one of our supreme living virtuosos, not just of percussion but of any instrument,” he has championed contemporary percussion music by commissioning or premiering more than one hundred-fifty new works. The most important have become the core repertory for solo percussion. Schick was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2014.
As conductor, Schick is artistic director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. As guest conducting he has appearanced with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, Ensemble Modern, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble. 
Schick’s publications include a book, “The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams,” and many articles. Numerous recordings of contemporary percussion music include the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis (Mode) and companion recordings of the early percussion music of Karlheinz Stockhausen in 2014 (Mode).  In 2015 he received the “Diapason d’Or” for Xenakis’s chamber music, and the Deutscheschallplattenkritikpreis for the best new music release for the Stockhausen set. 
Steven Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music and holds the Reed Family Presidential Chair at the University of California, San Diego. He was music director of the 2015 Ojai Festival, and starting in 2017, will be co-artistic director, with Claire Chase, of the Summer Music Program at the Banff Centre.

Steven Schick

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