Stephen Feigenbaum, composer

 

 

 

Stephen Feigenbaum is a composer, songwriter, and singer who works in a variety of disciplines. Many of his projects are driven by a passion for turning mainstream audiences into fans of classical music. 

Stephen was the composer/arranger of Yeethoven, a 2016 orchestral concert in Los Angeles in which the works of Kanye West and Beethoven were interwoven and compared. The program was widely recognized in publications including  GQ and Rolling Stone and was reprised at New York's Lincoln Center.       

As a singer, Stephen has been featured by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and profiled in The New Yorker and Variety and has toured nationally and internationally opening for artists including 070 Shake and Polyphia.  He has also collaborated on releases with artists including John Legend, Lil Nas X, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Shawn Mendes, Selena Gomez and Teyana Taylor. Stephen's Off-Broadway folk-rock musical Independents was named a New York Times Critic's Pick and one of the Huffington Post's ten best plays of 2012. Stephen also did music preparation for the score to the Oscar-winning movie The Revenant and worked extensively as a composer on Metro Boomin's soundtrack for Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (2023).

Stephen's classical music has been performed and recorded by the Cincinnati Pops, Albany Symphony Orchestra, contemporary classical pianists Lisa Moore and Vicky Chow, and the string quartet Ethel in venues including Boston's Symphony Hall and New York's Alice Tully Hall. Stephen has won two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and a 2013 Charles Ives award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A native of Winchester, Massachusetts, Stephen holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in music composition from Yale, where he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and Tony-award winning composer Jeanine Tesori.

 

Contact: stephen@stephenfeigenbaum.com