Biography

Stephen Cohn is internationally recognized for his music for the concert stage; scores for feature films, theater and television.

His concert works have been performed and recorded by the finest orchestras and chamber music ensembles in the United States and Europe, such as the Arditti Quartet, the Kansas City Symphony, the Prague Philharmonic the Chroma String Quartet, the Eclipse Quartet, Palomar, Piano Spheres, the Hear Now Festival, the Jung Trio, Midnight Winds, Red Cedar Chamber Music, Pacific Serenades, Universal Sacred Music, Outside the Bach'ss Festival, the Paulist Scholars and the Otzberg Festival. He has been Composer-in-Residence at The International Encounters of Catalonia in France and for Red Cedar Chamber Music in Iowa City and has been commissioned to compose new works which have been performed in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Fort Worth, Kearney, Tempe, Jacksonville, Black Mountain, Hoover, Montgomery, Huntsville, Iowa City and in Europe and Asia in Rome, Brussels, Ceret, Passau, Berlin, Orihuela, China (various cities), and Prague.

Stephen's classical and commercial recordings have been released by Warner Bros., Motown, A&M Records, MCA, Columbia Records, Albany Records and At Peace Media. He has been commissioned to compose music for theater productions which have played in large and small theaters in the Los Angeles area.

He has received an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Music", and his scores have been part of many award winning productions and feature films which included stars such as Lily Tomlin, William Shatner and Wallace Shawn. He has received a Parents' Choice Gold Award for his CD release, "Two Together, An American Folk Music Suite"

Currently he is Composer in Residence with Red Cedar Chamber Music for 2018-19.