Emmy Award-winning composer Steve Heitzeg — named “Composer of the Year” at the 2000 Minnesota Music Awards — is recognized for his orchestral and chamber music written in celebration of the natural world.

An advocate for the “peaceful coexistence of all species through music,” Heitzeg has written more than 100 works, including compositions for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, ballet, and film.

“We are all native to the earth and this is the origin of music — chords of humanity, animal chants, oceanic and aquatic arias, mountainous percussion, insect inventions, passacaglias of plants, symphonies of sky. Each solitary and individualistic spirit and being is a sustaining note in this life, this music.” — Steve Heitzeg

World premiere video

The world premiere of Heitzeg’s “While We Breathe, We Hope (Fanfare for Obama)”
performed by the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota (Young Nam Kim, Artistic Director) and Lou Bellamy, narrator.

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