Craig Slon is a New York based composer. He studied rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, composition and music ethnography at Sarah Lawrence College and received a BA in Liberal Arts. He studied modal harmony with Linc Chamberland.
He has received grants from Sarah Lawrence College, Artlink (Scotland), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Digital Harbor Foundation , and City Artist Corps Grants. He won a music publishing contract from the Tirreno Editorial Group composer competition for string orchestra (Italy) and was commissioned by cellist Jamie Fiste to compose music for solo cello. He is a member of the New York Composers Circle.
He has scored over 40 films and won a Craft Award for Original Score from the First Run Festival of New York University.
He lived in Andalusia for ten years and his music has been performed in Spain, Denmark, Australia, Peru, United States, Mexico, England, Scotland, Germany, China and Russia, including compositions for string quartet, string orchestra, solo violin, solo piano, violin and piano, violin and organ, flute and piano, soprano and piano, choir and flute, solo cello, saxophone quartet, two clarinets and piano, woodwind trio, solo prepared guitar, solo santur, santur with flamenco guitar and flamenco singer, solo titanium sheet metal, and electroacoustic compositions investigating the resonant signatures of glass, metal, wood, plastic, rubber, and ceramic materials.
He is interested in the semiotics of culture and has spent time with Tarahumara and Shuar indigenous communities. He studied Desana sound symbolism and categorization with Irving Goldman.
He has worked as recording engineer with the New York Woodwind Quintet, Duke Piano Trio, Parker Quartet, Attacca Quartet, Cassatt Quartet, Ekmeles, Loadbang, Choral Society of Grace Church, A Far Cry, Contemporaneos, Azure Ensemble, House of Time, New York New Music Ensemble, Joan Tower, Tania Leon, Charles Wuorinen, Samuel Adler, Sebastian Currier, Ursula Oppens, Charles Neidich, Magdalena Baczewska and Taka Kigawa, and has made world premier recordings of over 200 living composers.