Stephen Peles is a composer and theorist with degrees from

Princeton University, the University of Connecticut, and

Rutgers University. His works have been performed in both

Europe and the U.S., and his numerous honors include awards

and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, the New Jersey

State Council on the Arts, Yaddo, the Institute for

Contemporary American Music, the Virginia Center for the

Creative Arts, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for

the Arts, and many others.

Active as a theorist, he has received the Society for

Music Theory's Outstanding Publication Young Scholar

Award, and has published on both tonal and post-tonal

theory; his other research interests include cognitive

science and philosophy of explanation.  A past Editor of Perspectives

of New Music and current member of its Editorial Board,

he was also one of the founders of the SMT Philosophy

of Music special interest group, and has served on

the Editorial  Board of Music Theory Spectrum. A contributor

to the Cambridge History of American Music, and an Editor of

Princeton University Press's forthcoming The Collected Writings of

Milton Babbitt, he has been on the University of Alabama

faculty since 1996, where he teaches composition and theory.