Steven Soph
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. In 2022, Steven makes his debut with the Seattle, Fort Worth, and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras in Handel's Messiah; with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra in Bach's St. Matthew Passion; in the Baldwin Wallace University Bach Festival as the Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio; as a soloist with the Folger Consort; and as a founding member of Vancouver, B.C.’s The Leonids and Louisville’s Artefact Ensemble. Steven returns to the Charlotte Bach Festival as Evangelist in Bach’s St. John Passion and Baltimore Choral Arts to perform and record Anthony Blake Clark’s completion of Mozart’s Requiem. Recent seasons' highlights include 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. He 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 Mass in C minor with the Bach Society of St. Louis and the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra. International appearances include Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Netherlands; Festival Tage Alter Musik, Regensburg, Germany; Musica Sacra Festival, Maastricht, the Netherlands; and Festival Laus Polyphoniae, Antwerp, Belgium with Gramophone® finalist Cut Circle, in addition to Festival de Arte y Ópera Contemporánea, Morelia, Mexico with GRAMMY® Award-winning Roomful of Teeth. Steven holds degrees from the University of North Texas and Yale School of Music where he studied at Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music with renowned tenor James Taylor. Steven attended the American Bach Soloists Academy in 2011, was a 2014 Carmel Bach Festival Adams Fellow, and was a 2016 Oregon Bach Festival Young Artist. www.stevensoph.com