Steven Crino

Steven Crino is a composer that seeks to tell relevant stories through emotionally rich and intimate music. His first opera, Tomb of Beauty, is the third place winner of the 2021 American Prize, and his second opera, Friends House, was selected The Aural Compass Projects' Emerging Composer Competition. He has won other numerous awards including a 2022 Extraordinary Talent Award from the Rodrigo Landa-Romero International Piano Composition Competition, and was the winner of the 2018 3rd International A.D. Kastalsky Choral Music Competition. 
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Steven received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he also completed degrees in Composition (M.M.) and Theory Pedagogy (M.M.), studying with Michael Hersch and Kevin Puts. He was a Graduate Assistant, and Graduate Teaching Fellow of Music Theory at Peabody, working under the tutelage of Omar Thomas, Ildar Khannanov, and Kip Wile. He currently lives in the Philadelphia area. 

www.stevencrino.com