bio
Aleksei Stevens is a composer and sound artist living in Brooklyn, NY. His work brings together traditional instruments with found sound and interactive electronics.
Aleksei has had his music performed at many of the leading experimental music venues in the city, including The Stone, The Tank, Monkeytown, 3-Legged Dog, Chelsea Art Museum, The Flea Theater, The Monkey, White Box, and many others, as well as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and venues in Europe. He has presented work in festivals including Make Music NY (NYC), Ear to the Earth (NYC), Source (Washington, DC), and Tevereterno (Rome). Recent collaborators include Jessica Schmitz, James Moore, Jennifer Stock, Jessie Marino, Okkyung Lee, Vongku Pak, Kathy Supove, Madeleine Shapiro, Joan La Barbara, Joel Chadabe, Matthew Wright, Alvin Scott, and others. Ensemble commissions include Flexible Music and Mantra Percussion. In 2008, Aleksei was the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship.
Aleksei earned a masters degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music in 2006, where he studied with Nils Vigeland. Since then he’s worked as an educator, a curator, and a concert producer, and, since the last day of August, 2008, he’s had the best job in the world.
