Chicago-based oratorio tenor Steven Caldicott Wilson has been a member of the twice GRAMMY-nominated classical a cappella vocal quartet New York Polyphony since 2011, and was an inaugural member of The Leonids with Chor Leoni Vancouver in May 2022 where he will return in 2023. He will also return to engagements with Schola Antiqua in Chicago and Milwaukee in 2022. Past solo appearances include Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Hall Boston, multiple Evangelist roles and Bach cantata recitals with Trinity Baroque Orchestra NYC, Chatham Baroque, TENET Vocal Artists, Clarion Orchestra NYC. He made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in December 2010 in Handel’s Messiah.

Founded in 2006, New York Polyphony is dedicated to historical performance of medieval and renaissance repertoire as well as modern commissions and educational outreach. Noteworthy engagements include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, 2013 Taipei International Choral Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Wigmore and Cadogan Halls London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg (Germany), Festival Internacional de Música Abvlensis (Spain), Stavanger Kammermusikkfestival (Norway), Cartagena Festival International de Música (Colombia), Early Music Vancouver.

Steven is an engaging and versatile musician, combining sensitive expression with a disciplined attention to detail in solo and ensemble settings. His career has focused not only on historical performance practice but also the performance of new music. Steven is also a skilled pianist, teacher, and coach. A native of Virginia, he has been based in Chicago since September 2022. He travels frequently, domestically and abroad, and eagerly pursues opportunities to prepare new works and to interpret historical music. He is an enlisted veteran of the United States Air Force Band Singing Sergeants, and a graduate of Ithaca College (BM) and the Yale University Voice Masters program in early music, oratorio, and chamber ensemble.

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