“A RACING, BRASSY SCORE”
— NEW YORK TIMES
“ATTRACTIVE LYRICISM”
— GRAMOPHONE
“wide ranging, imaginative”
— PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
“gorgeous use of the orchestra”
— BOSTON CLASSICAL REVIEW
“ethereal dissonances”
— BOSTON GLOBE
“arrestingly poetic”
— BMOP
“[music that] didn’t let itself be eclipsed”
— TEXAS CLASSICAL REVIEW
Michigan-born, Manhattan-based American composer Stephanie Ann Boyd (b. 1990) writes melodic music about women’s memoirs and the natural world for symphonic and chamber ensembles. Her work has been performed in nearly all 50 states and has been commissioned by musicians and organizations in 37 countries. Boyd’s five ballets include works choreographed by New York City Ballet principal dancers Lauren Lovette, Ashley Bouder, NYCB soloist Peter Walker, and XAOC Contemporary Ballet’s Eryn Renee Young. Eero, a ballet commissioned by Access Contemporary Music and Open House New York, was written for the grand opening of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport. A contemporary music critic for American Record Guide and I Care if You Listen, Stephanie was one of the last students of the violin pedagogue John Kendall and is a graduate of Roosevelt University and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Rehearsal of pas de deux from Earth (2019)
choreographed by Eryn Renee Young, commissioned by Eryc Taylor Dance
Premiere of Lullaby for Sophie premiere in Singapore
with Andrew Litton, Pei-Sian Ng, and commissioner Igor Yuzefovich
Pioneer High School Orchestra at the 2017 Midwest Conference, where they performed Beyond the Gate
