Bio
Eli Fieldsteel in the White Mountains, NH
Eli Fieldsteel (b. Middletown, CT, 14 July 1986) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, and percussionist with a particular interest in large ensemble music and computer programming. His works have been performed in a number of venues across the country.
Eli became seriously interested in composition in 2002, when he joined the Wesleyan Wind Ensemble as a percussionist. Over the next three years, the group performed and recorded six of his compositions for wind band. Eli received his Bachelor’s degree in music from Brown University in 2008, where he studied composition, orchestration, and counterpoint with Gerald Shapiro. In 2005, he became the student conductor of the Brown Wind Symphony and conducted several of his new works. Eli has studied with David Bithell, Cindy McTee, and Jon C. Nelson at the University of North Texas, where he received his Master’s degree in 2010. He is currently a doctoral composition student at the University of Texas at Austin.
Eli’s recent work reflects an emerging interest in technology and electroacoustic music as well as a continuous desire to refine and personalize his rhythmic and tonal vocabulary. In 2009, Fantasy for Wind Symphony was selected as a finalist in the second Frank Ticheli Competition. In the same year, his orchestral work, Cordillera, was selected for performance by the UNT Symphony Orchestra in the annual Concerto Competition. In 2010, Fantasy for Wind Symphony was selected as the winner of the Bandmasters’ Academic Society of Japan competition and was performed in Tokyo by the Kawagoe Sohwa Wind Ensemble.