Steve Lehman (musician)


Steve Lehman is an American composer and saxophonist in the genres of jazz and experimental music. His compositions have been performed by a number of international performers and orchestras.
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Early life and education

Lehman was born in New York City. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in composition from Wesleyan University and received his Doctor of Musical Arts with distinction in composition from Columbia University. He also attended classes with Jackie McLean for many years at the University of Hartford Hartt School.

Career

As a performer, Lehman leads a number of his own ensembles and performs frequently as a sideman with artists like Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran. His recording Travail, Transformation & Flow was chosen as the #1 Jazz Album of the year by The New York Times. Lehman’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Down Beat magazine, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Wire, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Lehman was a Fulbright scholar from 2002–2003. Lehman is a professor of Music at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Awards and honors

Discography

As leader

Structural Fire Interface Artificial Light Demian as Posthuman Manifold On Meaning Travail, Transformation, and Flow Dual Identity with Rudresh Mahanthappa Kaleidoscope & Collage with Stephan Crump Dialect Fluorescent Mise en Abîme Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone The People I Love with Craig Taborn Xenakis and the Valedictorian Ex Machina with Orchestre National de Jazz The Music of Anthony Braxton with Mark Turner

As sideman

With Anthony BraxtonNine Compositions 2000 12+1tet 2007 Sax Quintet 1998 Part I Sax Quintet 1998 Part II Tentet 2000 Part I Tentet 2000 Part II Tentet 2000 Tentet 2000 Tentet 1999 Part I Tentet 1999 Part II Alumni Orchestra 2005 Echo Echo Mirror House 2011 Tentet 2001
With Liberty EllmanOphiuchus Butterfly Radiate Last Desert
With others