A multi-hyphenate music powerhouse and creative visionary, Steve Hackman is a daring voice intent on redefining art music in the 21st century. Trained at the elite level classically but equally adept in popular styles, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny—he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist. He uses these polymathic abilities to create original music of incisive modernism yet rooted in elevated classicism. His groundbreaking orchestral fusions, such as Brahms X Radiohead and The Resurrection Mixtape (Mahler X Notorious BIG X Tupac Shakur), are introducing the symphony orchestra to its future audience; he has conducted these pieces to sellout houses across the country with the orchestras of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Seattle, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Colorado, Phoenix, Nashville, Oregon, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Charlotte, Southwest Florida, Alabama, Colorado Music Festival, and the Boston Pops. Hackman has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work, including Steve Lacy, Doja Cat, and Andrew Bird. He was trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds degrees in Orchestral Conducting and Piano Performance. He recently taught his first course at the Juilliard School, titled, “Fusion, Re-imagination and Revelation.” He is active on Instagram under @stevehackmanmusic.
For his newest fusion creation, composer/conductor Steve Hackman takes on the music of one of the most prolific and omnipresent artists this world has ever seen: Taylor Swift. This musical re-imagination will celebrate her singular and iconic songwriting voice by weaving greatest hits together with hidden gems in a new through-composed symphonic tapestry. It will draw unexpected comparisons between songs and unearth new musical easter eggs, promising to keep even the most dedicated Swiftie on their toes! Four vocalists and full band join the orchestra, creating a transformative soundscape that will elevate the music of one of the greatest artists in the world to new heights. Powered by the full force of the ISO, Hackman celebrates the music of Taylor Swift in a thrilling symphonic journey. Get ready to experience the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as you never have before!
Taylor Swift: The Symphony Era is a SoundFuse Production
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