Donald Steven (born 26 May 1945) is a Canadian-American composer, music educator, and academic administrator.
An associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award[1] in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative Arts Award in 1972, the 1987 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year[2] (for Pages of Solitary Delights) and the 1991 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music[3] (for In the Land of Pure Delight).
Perhaps his most well known piece is his Illusions for solo cello, which has been widely performed in concert and on television and radio broadcasts.
[4] Born in Montreal, he attended Selwyn House School, followed by Ashbury College.
[9] He has received numerous commissions, including from Maureen Forrester, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Bertram Turetzky, Robert Riseling, and Alvaro Pierri, and from La Société de musique contemporaine du Québec,[10] Répercussion, the Pierrot Ensemble, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, New Music Concerts and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.