Halsey Stevens

Halsey Stevens (December 3, 1908 – January 20, 1989) was a music professor, biographer, and composer of American music.

Halsey Stevens was born in Scott, New York and educated at Syracuse University and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied with William Berwald at Syracuse and with the composer Ernest Bloch at Berkeley.

Stevens served as a faculty member at Syracuse University (1935–1937), Dakota Wesleyan University (1937–1941), Bradley University (1941–1946), the University of Redlands (1946), and then at the University of Southern California from 1946 until his retirement in 1976. His notable students there included Houston Bright, Benjamin Lees, and Morten Lauridsen.

He died in a Long Beach, California, medical facility on January 20, 1989, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

His recorded music includes, in chronological order of composition:

along with many other works.

Among his chamber works, Stevens's 1956 trumpet sonata remains a particular favorite, having been commercially recorded by over a half-dozen trumpeters, including Giuseppe Galante, Jouko Harjanne, David Hickman, Wynton Marsalis, Anthony Plog, Scott Thornburg, and George Vosburgh.

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