David Ward-Steinman (November 6, 1936 – April 14, 2015) was an American composer and professor.
His teachers included John Boda, Burrill Phillips, Darius Milhaud (at Aspen, Colorado), Milton Babbitt (at Tanglewood) and Nadia Boulanger.
From 1970 to 1972, Ward-Steinman was the Ford Foundation composer-in-residence for the Tampa Bay area of Florida and he spent 1989–90 in Australia under a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, with residencies at the Victorian Centre for the Arts and La Trobe University in Melbourne.
[3] Ward-Steinman has received number of commissions, most notably from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
His music has been recorded on a number of labels, including Harmonia Mundi.