Steve Griggs has composed more than 150 original works, 30 arrangements of standards including 9 for vocalist, 25 arrangements of Villa-Lobos scores, 8 settings of poetry to music (Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, e.e. cummings, James Washington), and 3 big band arrangements. Steve won the Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction in the 2010 Composition Competition.
Steve has released 4 commercial recordings of his original music on his Hip City Music label and will release A Cup of Joe Brazil in 2016. These recordings have received international radio play and reviews in magazines. Steve was featured soloist on the soundtrack for Microsoft Xbox video game Halo 3: ODST.
Steve has performed at Bumbershoot, Jazz Alley, Ballard Jazz Walk, North Bend Jazz Walk, Free Blues and Cool Jazz in Freeway Park, Vashon Allied Arts, Seattle Jazz Vespers, Wayward Music Series, Art of Jazz at Seattle Art Museum, Earshot Voice and Vision Series, and Earshot Living Spirit of Jazz Series, and Tacoma Classical Tuesdays Series.
Panama Hotel Jazz: Music Made from Memories, a site-specific program for the Panama Hotel, was commission through a $15,000 2013 4Culture Historic Site Specific Grant. Performances were extended for 2 years through a $33,000 2014 National Park Service Japanese Confinement Sites Grant, $8,500 2015 4Culture Artist Project Grant, $1,000 2015 smART ventures grant, and $12,000 2015 Chamber Music America Residency Partnership with the Seattle Public Library. The program earned the ASCAP/CMA Adventurous Programming Award for Contemporary Music in 2014 and 2016.
Listen to Seattle, a site-specific program for the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center, was commissioned through a $14,000 2016 4Culture Historic Site Specific Grant.
Sound in Stone: Music in the Sculptures of James Winston Washington was commissioned through a $3,300 2015 CityArtist Project grant.
Research for a biography of Joseph Brazil is supported by a $7,500 2016 4Culture Heritage Project Grant to digitize interviews of musicians, 2015 and 2013 Jack Straw Foundation Artist Support Program, and $4,500 2012 4Culture Individual Artist Grant to collect oral histories.
Steve has published concert reviews, artist profiles, book review, how-to articles, CD reviews, and venue profiles in the Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, and Earshot Jazz Magazine. Reprints of his work appear in Stories of Music Volume 2 (Timbre Press) and Rhythm in the Rain (Ooligan Press). Steve wrote the liner notes for Scrape's first recording and the narrative for Robin Holcomb’s 2015 4Culture Historic Site Specific program at Washington Hall.
Steve earned a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance from the University of Illinois, Master of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from Pace University, and Certificates in Arts Management and Narrative Non-fiction from the University of Washington
Steve is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Chamber Music America (CMA), Jazz Education Network (JEN), Jazz Journalist Association, Earshot Jazz, and serves on the board of Friends of the Seattle Public Library.
Steve has released 4 commercial recordings of his original music on his Hip City Music label and will release A Cup of Joe Brazil in 2016. These recordings have received international radio play and reviews in magazines. Steve was featured soloist on the soundtrack for Microsoft Xbox video game Halo 3: ODST.
Steve has performed at Bumbershoot, Jazz Alley, Ballard Jazz Walk, North Bend Jazz Walk, Free Blues and Cool Jazz in Freeway Park, Vashon Allied Arts, Seattle Jazz Vespers, Wayward Music Series, Art of Jazz at Seattle Art Museum, Earshot Voice and Vision Series, and Earshot Living Spirit of Jazz Series, and Tacoma Classical Tuesdays Series.
Panama Hotel Jazz: Music Made from Memories, a site-specific program for the Panama Hotel, was commission through a $15,000 2013 4Culture Historic Site Specific Grant. Performances were extended for 2 years through a $33,000 2014 National Park Service Japanese Confinement Sites Grant, $8,500 2015 4Culture Artist Project Grant, $1,000 2015 smART ventures grant, and $12,000 2015 Chamber Music America Residency Partnership with the Seattle Public Library. The program earned the ASCAP/CMA Adventurous Programming Award for Contemporary Music in 2014 and 2016.
Listen to Seattle, a site-specific program for the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center, was commissioned through a $14,000 2016 4Culture Historic Site Specific Grant.
Sound in Stone: Music in the Sculptures of James Winston Washington was commissioned through a $3,300 2015 CityArtist Project grant.
Research for a biography of Joseph Brazil is supported by a $7,500 2016 4Culture Heritage Project Grant to digitize interviews of musicians, 2015 and 2013 Jack Straw Foundation Artist Support Program, and $4,500 2012 4Culture Individual Artist Grant to collect oral histories.
Steve has published concert reviews, artist profiles, book review, how-to articles, CD reviews, and venue profiles in the Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, and Earshot Jazz Magazine. Reprints of his work appear in Stories of Music Volume 2 (Timbre Press) and Rhythm in the Rain (Ooligan Press). Steve wrote the liner notes for Scrape's first recording and the narrative for Robin Holcomb’s 2015 4Culture Historic Site Specific program at Washington Hall.
Steve earned a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance from the University of Illinois, Master of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from Pace University, and Certificates in Arts Management and Narrative Non-fiction from the University of Washington
Steve is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Chamber Music America (CMA), Jazz Education Network (JEN), Jazz Journalist Association, Earshot Jazz, and serves on the board of Friends of the Seattle Public Library.
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