Stephen J. Macko

Lewis And Clark High School

Class of 1987

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Stephen J. Macko - Class of 1987 - Lewis And Clark High School

First Name	Stephen J.
Last Name	Macko
Graduation Year	Class of 1987
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	WA
Country	United States
Occupation	Composer/Author
Married	No
About Me	After graduating from high school, Stephen John Macko was accepted to Washington State University, where he studied trombone with Gordon Hallberg, the former bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony. He then choose to attend Eastern Washington University, where he studied music and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in music. At the age of 21, he had learned enough conducting technique in order to be accepted as an auditing conductor at the Festival at Sandpoint, directed by Gunther Schuller. At the festival he was able to meet and learn twelve tone techniques, with a group of young composers, from Milton Babbitt. After the festival he then went on to study trombone performance in a master's program, with Stuart Dempster, and conducting, with Peter Eros, at the University of Washington. After one year at the university, Macko then became an assistant to Stefan Kozinski, of whom now had achieved to being the associate conductor of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, a former prodigy of Nadia Boulanger. Since, Stephen John Macko has continued in music as a composer and in 1998-2000 completed his Symphony No. 1 "The Cultural Symphony" and in 2001 "The Children's Symphony". During this time Mr. Macko also developed Tetra Chord Structuring which can be demonstrated with his orchestral works: "Instancy: The Spirit of Time", "Buoyant Air", and "Fluent Harmony". In 2009 A.D. Stephen J. Macko completed his treatise "Musical Composition and Interval Proof: Explanation and Application". Woks of Stephen John ...(read more)