Dance
Courses
Music Theory,
Music of the 20th Century and Beyond,
Research and Writing: Contemporary Performance Practice
Biography
As writer and composer, has written scores for numerous choreographers, for theatre, and for film. Grants, awards, and honors include three NEA Opera/Musical Theatre Awards, a Meet the Composer Choreographer/Composer Commission; several Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Awards; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; a MacDowell Fellowship; a Richard Rodgers Development Award; and numerous ASCAP awards. His CD
Mannahatta was featured on WNYC’s
New Sounds program. He has composed music for Donald Byrd’s
The Beast, and Stephen Petronio’s
Drawn That Way, Chris Elam’s
Throw People, and has scored, arranged, and/or directed a number of musical theatre pieces, including
Papushko, Winter Man, and
The Wild. Music for film includes the BBC film
Men, with choreography by Victoria Marks;
The West, which premiered on PBS; and a BBC documentary series on Chinese scroll painting,
Masters of Space. Teirstein’s viola concerto
Maramures, recorded by the Prague Radio Symphony, was released on Masterworks Recordings. Original cast member of the Broadway musical hit
Barnum. Appeared on
Search for Tomorrow and in the film
Sophie’s Choice. Commissioned by the University of Arizona to write a large-scale piece for seven choirs to accompany Liz Lerman/The Dance Exchange in their piece
Hallelujah. Also commissioned by the Composer's Forum to write an original composition for symphony orchestra and choir forWashingtonState Millennium Concert.
