BSO FUSION : SKULL AND BONES
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steve Hackman
Frederic Aranda
Steve Hackman
A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and creative visionary , Steve Hackman is a daring voice intent on redefining art music in the 21 st century . Trained at the elite level classically but equally adept in popular styles , his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny — he is at once a composer , conductor , producer , DJ , arranger , songwriter , singer , and pianist . He uses these polymathic abilities to create original music of incisive modernism yet rooted in elevated classicism .
His groundbreaking orchestral fusions , such as Brahms X Radiohead and The Resurrection Mixtape ( Mahler X Notorious B . I . G . X Tupac Shakur ), are introducing the symphony orchestra to its future audience ; he has conducted these pieces to sellout houses across the country with the orchestras of Philadelphia , San Francisco , Dallas , Seattle , Pittsburgh , San Diego , Colorado , Phoenix , Nashville , Oregon , Indianapolis , Grand Rapids , Columbus , Charlotte , Southwest Florida , Alabama , Colorado Music Festival , and the Boston Pops .
Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work , including Steve Lacy , Doja Cat and Andrew Bird . He was trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees in Orchestral Conducting and Piano Performance . He recently taught his first course at the Juilliard School entitled “ Fusion , Re-imagination and Revelation .”
He is active on Instagram under @ stevehackmanmusic .
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