Steven "Steve" Mackey (born February 14, 1956) is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator.
As an electric guitar soloist, he has performed with the Kronos Quartet (Short Stories), the Arditti Quartet, New World Symphony, Dutch Radio Symphony, and London Sinfonietta.
Among Mackey's notable awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, two awards from the Kennedy Center for the performing arts, and the Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Miami performing arts center acknowledged his contributions to orchestral music with a special career achievement award, the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation, the 1987 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, and was chosen to represent the United States in the International Composers Rostrum in Paris, France.
[1] Born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1956 to American parents, Mackey was raised in northern California.
His compositions have been released on the Bridge, BMG/RCA Red Seal, Albany, New World, Nonesuch, BMG/Catalyst, CRI, Min/Max, and Newport Classic labels.