Sean Heim, Composer - Biographical Information
Born in Philadelphia in 1967, the primary focus of Sean Heim’s
work as a composer has been to develop an imaginative personal language that
strongly reflects the compositional techniques and aesthetic of his own western
musical tradition as well as the distillation and infusion of philosophical
ideas and musical elements found in numerous indigenous cultures. His work also
reflects his deep interest in the visual arts and in recent years these fusions
have developed to a level of greater aesthetic and technical abstraction.
Heim’s music has been performed to critical acclaim
throughout the United States and abroad by such distinguished performers as
the California E.A.R. Unit, Topology, and the Auros Group for New Music. He
has received awards and honors from such prestigious institutions as the National
Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the Atlantic
Center for the Arts, The American Composers Forum and the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf
Nissim Prize. He is currently based in Southern California and is an Assistant
Professor of Music at Chapman University.