It’s almost December in New Orleans which means it is the season for light festivals! I am going to have several projected light-art installations during the month… Read more “December in New Orleans”

I have just returned from an artistic residency at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences. The three weeks I spent there were invigorating and helped… Read more “Upcoming Performances – Spring 2021”

Earlier this year, I submitted a piece for David Bohn’s Toy Piano 100 Project, which was seeking new works of 100 or fewer notes for toy piano.… Read more “Shantytown – Toy Piano 100”

I had the opportunity to travel to Fairmont, West Virginia this past weekend to perform my work Let’s Say China for live electronics and Leap Motion Controller. It… Read more “West Fork New Music Festival 2019”

I’m very excited that my composition in Noise, for piano, percussion, and electronics, has been selected for performance at the 2019 New Music on the Bayou contemporary music… Read more “New Music on the Bayou 2019”

For the second year, I placed in the Southeastern Composers League Philip Slates Memorial Composition Contest for graduate students. Erinyes, a trio for oboe, viola, and piano,… Read more “Philip Slates Memorial Composition Contest 2019”

“Second prize goes to Stephen Montalvo, a student of Edward Maxwell Dulaney at Tulane University, for his composition Nighttide From The Shore…”

My name is Stephen Montalvo and I am an active composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music living in New Orleans, LA. Thank you for visiting… Read more “Welcome”