Steve Reich

“"There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them,"
-The Guardian (London).)

Biography

Download Biography“our greatest living composer”
– The New York Times

Steve Reich was recently called our greatest living composer. America’s greatest living composer. The most original musical thinker of our time and among the great composers of the century. From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain and Come Out to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales, Mr. Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them.