Steven Daverson

Steven Daverson is a leading European composer whose work explores apparent paradoxes arising from destructive musical forces, drawing on impossible or illogical spaces and scenarios in literature, cinema, and visual art. His music combines fleeting, ephemeral textures with a latent violence that constantly threatens to surface.

Performances & Collaborations

His music has been performed internationally by renowned ensembles including:

• Arditti Quartet
• BBC Singers
• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Decoder Ensemble
• Ensemble Modern
• Klangforum Wien
• Philharmonia Orchestra
• London Sinfonietta

Performances at major festivals:

• Aldeburgh Festival
• Darmstadt Ferienkurse
• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
• Traiettorie Festival (Parma)
• Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik

Publications & Recordings

A CD of his chamber and ensemble music—Shadow Walker—is available on col legno.

Scores since 2008 are published by Edition Gravis, Berlin.

Awards & Honors

• Youngest-ever recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composers’ Prize (2011)
• RPS Composition Prize (2011)
• Mendelssohn Scholarship (2008)
• Winner of the Jurgenson Competition (2009)
• Fellow at Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg (2019/20)