Steven Fox
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Steven Fox is an American
conductor
of classical music
. Currently Steven Fox is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of New York’s Clarion Music Society, Acting Director of Music at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and Music Director of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg in Russia.
, London, where he received an MMus degree with Distinction along with three of the institution's awards: the Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize, the Peter Le Huray Award and the Alan Kirby Prize.
as Associate Conductor and is also working as a guest conductor with the Yale Schola Cantorum
. Other recent guest conducting engagements have included Handel's Judas Maccabaeus in Vilnius, Lithuania, with Jauna Muzika
; and Mozart’s Sparrow Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
. He has given master classes in Historical Performance at Yale University and Dartmouth College, and in early oratorio at The Juilliard School.
United States
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conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
of classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
. Currently Steven Fox is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of New York’s Clarion Music Society, Acting Director of Music at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and Music Director of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg in Russia.
Biography
Fox began studying music at the Horace Mann School under pianist John Contiguglia and conductor and composer Johannes Somary. He went on to study Music and Russian at Dartmouth College, graduating as a Senior Fellow with High Honors, and continued his studies at the Royal Academy of MusicRoyal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
, London, where he received an MMus degree with Distinction along with three of the institution's awards: the Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize, the Peter Le Huray Award and the Alan Kirby Prize.
Career
Shortly after his graduation from RAM, Fox traveled to Russia and founded the country's first period-instrument orchestra, Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg. With Musica Antiqua, he revived a lost repertoire of Russian 18th-century music from the court of Catherine the Great. The list of works he has premiered from this period includes the earliest symphony by a Russian composer—Sinfonia in C by Maksim Berezovsky (c. 1770), which he has conducted in London, St. Petersburg and New York – and Dmitri Bortniansky's final opera, Le fils rival, which he conducted in the Hermitage Theater in 2004.Current projects
Currently Steven Fox is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of New York’s Clarion Music Society, Acting Director of Music at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and Music Director of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg in Russia. At spring 2010 he returns for the third time to New York City OperaNew York City Opera
The New York City Opera is an American opera company located in New York City.The company, called "the people's opera" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was founded in 1943 with the aim of making opera financially accessible to a wide audience, producing an innovative choice of repertory, and...
as Associate Conductor and is also working as a guest conductor with the Yale Schola Cantorum
Yale Schola Cantorum
The Yale Schola Cantorum is a 24-voice vocal ensemble jointly sponsored by the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. The Schola Cantorum is open by audition to any student at Yale University, although most of its singers are affiliated with the School of Music...
. Other recent guest conducting engagements have included Handel's Judas Maccabaeus in Vilnius, Lithuania, with Jauna Muzika
Jauna muzika
Jauna muzika is a chamber choir in Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 1989 by composers Remigijus Merkelys and Algimantas Gurevičius. The members of the choir are professional musicians - graduates and students of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. Depending on the repertoire being performed, the number...
; and Mozart’s Sparrow Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
Vatican City
Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
. He has given master classes in Historical Performance at Yale University and Dartmouth College, and in early oratorio at The Juilliard School.
Reviews
- James Oestreich, 400-Year-Old Work Gets a Fresh Look: New York Times; April 21, 2010
- James Oestreich, Beethoven, Disarmingly Impressionist: New York Times; October 14, 2006