Craig Steffee

A milestone was reached today -- after many months of composing, arranging, rearranging, editing, recording, mixing, remixing and mastering, the music of my orchestral suite Pamlico Sound Sketches is now in the hands of the CD manufacturer, for anticipated release…

The last piece in the Pamlico Sound Sketches, At First Light, is now posted in the Music section of the website. This piece envisions watermen working their crab pots and nets at dawn, amid the still air and glassy water…

Four more pieces from the "Pamlico Sound Sketches" symphonic suite are now posted online, and you can hear them in the Music section of the website. "Winds of the Neuse" has a sparse, impressionistic character. "Tryon Palace Gardens," in contrast…

I have completed two short film cues as entries in a "score-to-film" contest. The subject was a 60-second nature documentary-style clip, with credits before and after. I composed two cues in deliberately different styles -- one in a traditional, serious-sounding…

Nor'easter attempts to capture a more ominous and aggressive mood, employing as one technique to this end a persistent ostinato driven by the timpani and low percussion. My hope is to portray some of the palpable terror of these storms…

This composition is a lyrical adagio, essentially an aria for solo clarinet accompanied by full string orchestra. You can hear the entire piece in the Music section, or listen to a shorter excerpt.

The first track from Pamlico Sound Sketches can now be heard in the Music section of the website. You can listen to the entire composition (total time, 6:28), or hear an excerpt that highlights the main theme (1:35) I have…

I am currently recording and mixing Pamlico Sound Sketches, an orchestral suite consisting of eleven symphonic pieces. The title is a double entendre -- inspiration for the music stems from elements of the Pamlico Sound, a body of water that…