Stefania Maria [Stefania] de Kenessey (06/10/1956), a female Hungarian composer. She was born in Budapest and resident in the New York area, writes music that sounds like Schubert. Her 28-minute clarinet quintet, Shades of Darkness, is in a style and idiom that recalls the sound of the Mozart Quintet and makes the Brahms sound modern. Her melodies are quite lovely and her moods sensitive. A native of Budapest, Stefania de Kenessey was educated at Yale and Princeton Universities, receiving her doctorate under the tutelage of Milton Babbitt. She is a Professor of Music at the New School University and resides in New York City.