Steven Roy Gerber (September 28, 1948, in Washington, D. C. – May 28, 2015, in New York City)[1] was an American composer of classical music.
Steven Gerber's works include the contrapuntal Fantasy for Solo Violin,[2] which has been recorded [3] on both the CRI and Naxos labels, and Piano Trio, commissioned by the Hans Kindler Foundation.
[4] His composition teachers included Robert Parris, James K. Randall, Earl Kim, and Milton Babbitt.
Beginning in the early 1980s, he abandoned twelve-tone composition, with rare exceptions, and his music became much more tonal, for example in his Piano Sonata.
The resulting six-movement suite, Music in Dark Times, was premiered by Ashkenazy with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on March 25–28, 2009.