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Backstage at DAR Constitution Hall with James G. Roche, former Secretary of the Air Force
Steven is an engaging and versatile musician, combining sensitive expression with a disciplined attention to detail. His career, which includes professional solo and ensemble performances in four European countries and an enlistment in the United States Air Force Band Singing Sergeants, has focused not only on historical performance practice but also the performance of new music. Additionally, Steven is a skilled pianist, teacher, and coach, and has been featured as a cabaret-style entertainer. A native of the Washington DC area, he has been based in New York City since 2007. He travels frequently, domestically and abroad, and eagerly pursues opportunities to prepare new works and to interpret historical music.
In the 2009-2010 season, he performed Bach’s Cantata 78 and Cantata 102 in recital with the Louisville Bach Society—where he will return in October 2010 to sing the title role in Handel’s Joshua—and he was a soloist and ensemble member in 2010′s first performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers as part of the Green Mountain Project in New York City. Additionally this season, Mr. Wilson performed Britten’s Abraham and Isaac and solos in Monteverdi’s Vespers at St. Thomas Church in New York City; he was also be seen in Portland, Maine, singing Mozart’s Requiem in collaboration with the Portland Choral Art Society and Portland Ballet. He returns to the Carmel Bach Festival in July 2010, where last year he sang in the solo quartet in Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42; this year, he will participate as a soloist in their performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers.
Steven and his late grandfather, Edward Caldicott
In April 2009, Steven sang the arias in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with John Scott at Saint Thomas Church, and in February 2009, he sang the opening solo in Lars Edlund’s Gloria under the direction of Stefan Parkman at Trinity Church in New York City. October 2008 saw Mr. Wilson performing with Petr Kotík in Prague, Berlin, and Manhattan.
Steven completed his undergraduate degree in voice performance at Ithaca College. In the Fall of 2005, Steven was the tenor member of the second quartet of students to begin the new two-year masters degree program at Yale University in Vocal Performance, with a concentration in Early Music, Oratorio, and Chamber Ensemble; the students in this degree program now comprise the Yale Voxtet. While at Yale, Steven gave a recital devoted to the music of Benjamin Britten and was a soloist in Bach’s Magnificat and St. John Passion, Monteverdi’s Vespers, and Beethoven’s Mass in C.
In the summer of 2001, Steven performed the role of Frederic in 52 performances of Pirates of Penzance at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. He was recruited for the US Air Force Band Singing Sergeants as a civilian in the spring of 2001, and completed his enlistment in 2005. During his enlistment, Steven gave many performances at the White House and was a featured vocal soloist on many concerts, CDs, and tours. He was also the male lead in Born of a Dream, a Broadway-style musical produced by the USAF Band, performed at the National Theater in Washington, DC, and the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Please see the video page on this site for clips from Steven’s performance in Born of a Dream.
A skilled pianist and cabaret performer, Steven has performed at the Duplex in New York City and frequently entertains for private parties and events. He is currently a member of the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys in New York City, and maintains a private teaching and coaching studio at the Turtle Bay Music School in Manhattan. He lives in Astoria, Queens.
