From 2010 to 2013, while attending Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, he was an audio engineer at the C. Since joining SFA in 2016, Adams continued to work with several companies to produce music experience installations for major music festivals such as the Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas and Orlando. While working as a producer and engineer at Incite, Adams contributed to the design of MAUD - a large synthesizer which has been featured at several installations and performances throughout Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Prior to his role at SFA, Adams lived and worked in Los Angeles, California, where he was a technical producer and engineer for Incite, a design and production company. He teaches many courses in undergraduate and graduate SRT programs and is the director of the Contemporary Music Ensemble. James Adams is the director of Sound Recording Technology at SFA. When not composing and teaching, Lias enjoys reading, backpacking, kayaking, skiing, travel and photography. He currently resides in Nacogdoches, where he is professor of composition at SFA. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the College Music Society, the Society of Composers, Inc and the American Composers Forum, and is the Texas delegate to the International Society of Contemporary Music. Lias received degrees from Messiah College, SFA and Louisiana State University.
Lias is the creator of The Composers Site (now operated by Vox Novus) and the founder and leader of the annual Composing in the Wilderness program offered by the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and Alaska Geographic.
In 2017, his "All the Songs that Nature Sings" was commissioned by the Boulder Philharmonic with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and performed at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Lias has served as artist-in-residence at Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Denali, Glacier Bay, Bering Land Bridge and Gates of the Arctic National Parks, and has written over a dozen park-related pieces that have been performed in such far-flung places as Colorado, New Hampshire, Texas, Alaska, Sydney and Taiwan.
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His passion for wilderness and outdoor pursuits has led to a sizable series of works about the national parks of the United States. Lias served for eleven years as Composer in Residence and Music Director at the Texas Shakespeare Festival. His pieces are regularly featured at major national and international conferences including the International Trumpet Guild, the North American Saxophone Alliance and the International Society for Contemporary Music World Music Days. His music is published by Alias Press and distributed worldwide exclusively by Theodore Presser.
Stephen Lias is regularly performed in concert and recital throughout the United States and abroad by soloists and ensembles including the Arianna Quartet, the Anchorage Symphony, the Oasis Quartet, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Orchestra, the Ensamble de Trompetas Simón Bolívar, the Boulder Philharmonic and the Russian String Orchestra. Now is the time to help our youth be able to enhance their gifts and continue their dreams, “Invest into Our Future”.The music of adventurer-composer Dr.
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