Stephen J. Rush
Professor of Dance and Performing Arts Technology
srush@umich.edu
734-647-2286
Stephen Rush is the director of the Digital Music Ensemble (DME). With DME, Rush has premiered works by John Cage, Philip Glass and LaMonte Young, and has recorded with Pauline Oliveros and "Blue" Gene Tyranny. DME is widely known for it's site-specific work, "Gypsy Pond Music", which is performed annually at the University of Michigan and elsewhere.
Rush's extensive body of work includes three operas, chamber music (some of which is standard repertory), orchestra work and over 100 scores for dancers. His compositions have been recorded by the Warsaw and Detroit Symphonies and members of the New York Philharmonic, and performed worldwide. As a performer Rush has presented his multi-media work in Japan, Europe (including Paris, Berlin and Budapest), Latin America and India.
Stephen Rush works frequently as a jazz musician, having performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Swell, Eugene Chadbourne, the late Peter Kowald, and his own NY-based-trio Yuganaut with Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann. His new book, Better Get It In Your Soul, will be out in April, 08, and discusses radical approaches to liturgy, including the inclusion of avante-garde jazz in church services. He also has a side-career as an interviewer, having interviewed such luminiaries as Laurie Anderson, Ravi Shankar, LaMonte Young, Desmond Tutu, the Kronos Quartet, and Swami Chinmayananda.
Rush is a Professor at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for 18 years. He earned a doctorate at the Eastman School of Music, and studied with third-stream pioneer Gunther Schuller, David Liptak, Allan Schindler and Samuel Adler.
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