Estrella, Steven
Period: 21st Century
Born: Wednesday, September 12, 1962 in Manchester, Connecticut
As of September 2023 this composer is still living.
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Nation of Origin: United States
Major Works:
Eidolons (1984) - cantata for chorus and orchestra
Upanishads (1986) - song cycle on Indian text
Technology producer for McGraw-Hill's Spotlight on Music curriculum 180 Interactive Listening Maps. (2008)
Technology producer for Berklee College of Music Notation Mixer iPad app. (2014)
Technology producer for McGraw-Hill Education MU16 online music curriculum. (2015)
Other Information:
Dr. Estrella earned a Ph.D. in music education from Temple University, a Master of Arts degree in music composition from Claremont Graduate School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Psychology from Eckerd College. His Ph.D. dissertation "Effects of Training and Practice on Advanced Measures of Music Audiation Scores" involved programming and administering a 26-lesson aural skills curriculum delivered on Macintosh computers using HyperCard, speech synthesis, and digital audio. On July 1, 1991 he accepted a position at Temple University as Director of Computer/Media Services. On July 1, 1999 he began a tenure-track, presidential appointment as Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of Computer/Media Services for Temple University’s Boyer College of Music.
Among his many duties at the Boyer College, he was the Director of the Presser Creative Music Technology Center Computer Lab and the webmaster for the college’s extensive web site at http://www.temple.edu/music. He was Vice-President and webmaster for the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME at www.ti-me.org), a national organization dedicated to establishing standards for technology education for music educators. His current professional passion involves designing interactive web sites for music education through relational databases, Javascript, CSS, and HTML5. In July 2001, he left Temple University to work full-time in his Web development business StevenEstrella.com which creates educational media for music and the arts.
General Bibliography:
Lampert, Vera; Kemp, Ian; and White, Eric Walter, The New Grove Modern Masters (The New Grove Series), W. W. Norton & Company, November 1997, ISBN: 0393315924
Slonimsky, Nicolas, Music Since 1900, Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186
Griffiths, Paul, Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945, Oxford University Press; 1st edition (April 11, 1996), ISBN: 0198165110
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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Dr. Estrella's web site
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