Stephen Blumberg, an award-winning composer and professor at California State University, Sacramento, also co-directs the Festival of New American Music.

Stephen Blumberg received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of California, San Diego. He has won numerous awards including the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2004), the UC Berkeley Music Department?s George Ladd Prix de Paris Fellowship (1991-93), two Nicola De Lorenzo Prizes for Composition (1990 and 1994), and a BMI Student Composer Award (1987).

Music by Stephen Blumberg has been performed in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Brazil, as well as throughout the United States, by ensembles such as the Arditti String Quartet, the Cassatt String Quartet, Earplay, the Empyrean Ensemble, Octagon, and Music Now. Inflorescence for flute solo has been included on a CD of solo flute music released by Laurel Zucker on the Cantilena label in August 2000. The first movement of Old Maps of the New World was performed by the Berkeley Symphony at their ?Under Construction? series in June 2001. Skirr, an inter-media collaboration with electronic media artist Rachel Clarke, was premiered by the Empyrean Ensemble at the Mondavi Center for the Arts at UC Davis in November 2003, and was also performed at the Festival of New American Music at California State University, Sacramento in November 2003. Skirr was selected to be performed as the first piece on the opening concert of the Festival of New Music at Florida State University in February 2005. A DVD version has been screened at several film and video festivals including the San Francisco Art Institute 11th Annual International Film Festival in February 2004, where it was awarded a Jurors? Citation. It was also shown at the Busan Asian Short Film Festival, in Busan South Korea, in May 2004. Blumberg and Clarke recently completed an interactive sound/visual installation, The Gold Kitchen, commissioned by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento for the Art Ark touring exhibit.

Stephen Blumberg is Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory at California State University, Sacramento, where he is the Co-Director of the Festival of New American Music, in addition to being the director of the Center for Contemporary Music.

Jacob's Ladder (2005) for bass clarinet and piano; Family Album (2005) for piano solo; Twine (2004) for clarinet and bass clarinet ; Skirr (2003) for flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola, and cello (with computer animation by Rachel Clarke); Tertium Quid (2002) for flute, viola, and cello; Old Maps of the New World (2002)for orchestra; Serpentine (2001) for flute/alto flute, oboe/ English horn, and clarinet/bass clarinet; Forlorn (2001) for piano solo; Daedalus and Icarus (1999) for flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano; Scrabble (1999) for marimba solo