Steven Kazuo Takasugi

Born in 1960 in Los Angeles, Takasugi studied composition with Noah Creshevsky, Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa and Roger Reynolds, as well as computer music with Charles Dodge, F. Richard Moore, and Harold Cohen. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of California, San Diego.

Takasugi has held artists and guest residencies in Japan, Germany, France, Israel, and the United States. His work has been presented at festivals and institutions worldwide and among his many awards is a 2010-11 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He teaches composition as an Associate in the Music Department in Harvard University’s doctoral student composition program and is Managing Director of the Harvard Summer Master Courses in New Music Composition. He is permanent faculty at the International Summer Academy for Composition, Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, and the Tzlil Meudcan Summer Course for Contemporary Performance and Composition in Israel. He has lectured extensively and is author of many articles on New Music and aesthetics. He is one of the founding editors of Search Journal for New Music and Culture, a peer reviewed journal with an emphasis on New Music composition.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi and Chaya Czernowin are permanent faculty for the Summer Academy master class to give consistency in methodology and content.