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Biography

A “superb vocal soloist” (The Washington Post) with “impressive clarity and color” (The New York Times), tenor Steven Soph performs concert repertoire spanning the Renaissance to modern day. Steven appears with renowned organizations including the Cleveland, Seattle, Philharmonia Baroque, Charlotte, Tucson, American Classical, Champaign-Urbana, Elmhurst, New Jersey, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, and in esteemed venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Boston's Symphony Hall, the Krannert Center, and the Kennedy Center. A committed ensemble performer, he most recently sang the music of Josquin des Prez at Antwerp, Belgium's Festival AMUZ with Boston's Cut Circle. Steven also performs with Austin's Conspirare, Providence’s Ensemble Altera, Washington Bach Consort, Tucson’s True Concord, Yale Choral Artists, Kansas City’s Spire, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Washington D.C.'s The Thirteen, and Winter Park, Florida's Bach Vocal Artists.

This season's solo engagements include Bach's Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland with Boston's Handel and Haydn Society; Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem; Mozart's Requiem with the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park; Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Master Chorale of South Florida; Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the Handel Choir of Baltimore; Bach Cantatas 4, 106, and 182 with San Francisco's American Bach Soloists; and Handel's Messiah with Philadelphia's Tempesta di Mare and the Handel and Haydn Society

Last season, Steven debuted with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah, made his Symphony Hall solo debut in Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Boston’s Handel + Haydn Society, his Meyerson Symphony Center solo debut in Berlioz’s Requiem on Dallas’ Highlander Concert Series, and joined the University of Iowa for Britten’s War Requiem. Steven returned to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the American Classical Orchestra for Bach’s Mass in B minor; to the Bach Society of Saint Louis and Lincoln, Nebraska’s Abendmusik as Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion; Choral Arts Philadelphia in Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610; the Oklahoma Bach Choir for Bach’s Cantatas 1, 61, 62, 65, and 70; Pro Musica Colorado for Handel’s Messiah; twice GRAMMY® Award-nominated True Concord Voices and Orchestra, the Master Chorale of South Florida, and the Oregon Bach Festival for performances of Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor; as well as the Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival and True Concord Voices and Orchestra performing arias in Bach’s St. John Passion as well as covering the Evangelist role.

Recent seasons' highlights include several solo appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra, including Severance Hall premier performances of Stravinsky's Threni id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, an all-Handel program led by Ton Koopman, and Mozart's Requiem led by Patrick Dupré Quigley. Steven appeared as a soloist at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the American Classical Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Psalm 41, led by Thomas Crawford and made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in Manhattan Concert Productions’ performance of Mozart’s Requiem, conducted by Yoojin Muhn and Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, led by Jennaya Robison. Steven made his Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra debut in a program of Bach, Monteverdi, Purcell, and Vivaldi, led by Patrick Dupré Quigley and his Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra debut in Stacy Garrop’s Terra Nostra, conducted by Stephen Alltop. He has performed Reich's The Desert Music with the New World Symphony and Seraphic Fire; Mozart's "Orphanage" Mass with San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra; and Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Bach Society of St. Louis and the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra.