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Lee Steward

Tenor Lee Steward joined the Music Department voice faculty at CSU East Bay in the fall of 2011. He has performed lieder concerts in New York City and the Berkshires and as soloist in oratorios, including Handel's Messiah and Mozart 's Requiem. His concert work includes the premiere of Gerald Busby’s Emotion, with text by Tony-award-winning author of The Light in the Piazza, Craig Lucas and he sang with Stephen Sondheim and Bernadette Peters in an A&E television program honoring Sondheim. Operatic credits include numerous leading and supporting roles in professional regional opera companies such as the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Sarasota Opera, and Utah Festival Opera, and he sings first tenor in the Extra Chorus of the San Francisco Opera. While living in New York, Dr. Steward worked as voice instructor and assistant conductor with the Boys Choir of Harlem.

He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree, with a concentration in piano and choral conducting, as well as advanced degrees in vocal performance and has conducted church, college, and community groups in a wide variety of musical genres ranging from Palestrina to Busby.

 

(2/11/2013)