Michigan-born, Manhattan-based American composer Stephanie Ann Boyd writes melodic music about women’s memoirs and the natural world for symphonic and chamber ensembles. Her work has been performed in nearly all 50 states and has been commissioned by musicians and organizations in 37 countries. Boyd’s five ballets include works choreographed by New York City Ballet principal dancers Lauren Lovette and Ashley Bouder and include a ballet commissioned for the grand opening of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport. 

Current commissions include the new orchestra consortium project: Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals, a concerto, Nautilus, for principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic Anthony McGill, a new reed quintet for Akropolis, and the second book of Flower Catalog Piano Preludes.

Recent commissions include a work inspired by Betty Friedan entitled Everywoman, with former Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and 2022 Indianapolis Competition winner Sirena Huang as soloists and commissioned by the Peoria Symphony Orchestra; Alleluia Olora commissioned by Astral Artists for cellist Tommy Mesa, Julia Louisa Esther: a Suffragette Symphony commissioned by the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra with Christopher Dragon, the premiere of which was the subject of a documentary on Wyoming PBS;  Aurora, commissioned by Daniel Kurganov and Constantine Finehouse, and others.