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Steven Coburn is an active member of the Brooklyn music community as an accompanist, teacher, arranger, composer and musicologist. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree in performance and music education from the Crane School of Music at the State University College of New York at Potsdam and his M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from New York University. Steven studied choral music with such figures as Robert Shaw, Frank Pooler, Brock MacElheran and Gregg Smith, piano with George Mulfinger, Helen King and Jerome Rose, composition and theory with Elliot DelBorgo and Louis Karchin, and musicology with Edward Roesner, Stanley Boorman and Robert Bailey. In addition to teaching music at several middle schools and high schools, Steven has also taught music at the Eugene Lang College of the New School University, New York University, and Pace University as well as privately in his own piano studio. In over 25 years of recital and accompanying experience he has performed in multiple venues and worked with singers, instrumentalists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, theater and show groups, and choruses. Steven is the accompanist and assistant to the directors of the Brooklyn Community Chorus, the Park Slope Singers, and the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus, and has been the arranger and music director for Stageworks Summer Repertory Theater. As a musicologist, he has been a regular contributor to the All Music Guide and Naturlaut, and has written on musical subjects ranging from the Renaissance through progressive rock. His book "Mahler's Tenth Symphony" will soon be published by Toccata Press. Steven has been listed in "Who’s Who in America" since 2004. Dr. Coburn's piano teaching website.
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Resume:
Steven D. Coburn
stevendcoburn@aol.com
Education:
PhD, Musicology, New York University
MA, Music, New York University
Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Non-degree graduate work in piano and conducting
B.Mus., Music Education, State University of New
York, Potsdam, Crane School of Music
Minors in conducting and piano performance,
Magna cum laude
Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY
Non-degree graduate work in music, including extensive
seminar study with Robert Shaw, Aaron Copland, Gregg
Smith, Frank Pooler and others,as well as private study
in conducting with Stanley Chapple and Brock MacElheran
Performance Experience
Pianist:
Accompanist for the Brooklyn Community Chorus
Accompanist for the Park Slope Singers, Brooklyn, NY
Accompanist for the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus
Accompanist for the Berkeley Carroll School Middle and
Upper School Choruses
Accompanist for the Bowling Green State University choral
department
Accompanist for the Bowling Green State University Theater
department
Accompanist for various Crane School of Music choruses
Extensive recital, ensemble and accompanying experience,
including recent performances at the Austrian Cultural
Cultural Forum and the Liederkranz Club in NYC
New York University Early Music Performance Certification
Singer:
extensive amateur and professional ensemble experience
Conductor:
Assistant director for the Brooklyn Community Chorus
Associate director for the Park Slope Singers
Assistant director for the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus
Music director and arranger for Stageworks Summer Repertory
Theater, Watertown, NY
Chorus Master for the Vertical Players Repertory Opera
Company, Brooklyn, NY
Assistant rehearsal director for the Berkeley Carroll
School Middle and Upper School Choruses, Brooklyn, NY
Assistant Director, section leader and rehearsal conductor
for Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute
Assistant Director for Bowling Green State University
Theater Department
Co-founder and Director of Crane School of Music
Composer’s Forum Orchestra
Competition winner for Crane School of Music One-act Opera
Festival
Teaching Experience
Director of a large and active private music studio (www.brooklynpianolessons.com)
Adjunct Instructor, Pace University
"Music Appreciation"; "Fundamentals of Music"
Adjunct Instructor, The New School University
“Music and Society”
Adjunct Instructor, New York University
“Elements of Music”
Teaching Assistant, New York University
“Elements of Music”; “The Art of Listening”
Teaching Assistant, Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute
Publications:
For the All Media Guide (www.allclassical.com)
Complete works commentaries:
Albinez, piano only; Berg; Schoenberg; Brahms; Chopin;
Debussy, piano only; Liszt, piano only; Mahler;
Mendelssohn, piano only; Rachmaninoff, piano only;
Schumann, piano and songs only;
Biographies:
Maurice André; Carlo Bergonzi; E(dward George) Power
Biggs; Jorge Bolet; Julian Bream; Daniel Chorzempa;
Clifford Curzon; Peter Maxwell Davies; Gaetano
Donizetti; Osian Ellis; Morton Feldman; Emanuel
Feuermann; John Field; Rudolf Firkušný; Virgil Fox;
Francesco Geminiani; Tito Gobbi; Percy Grainger; Roy
Harris; Clara Haskil; Richard Hickox; Johann Nepomuk
Hummel; Rene Jacobs; Leos Janacek; Clemént Janequin; Kim
Kashkashian; Ralph Kirkpatrick; Evgeny Kissin; Dinu
Lipatti; Pietro Antonio Locatelli; Marin Marais; John
McCormack; Etienne-Nicolas Méhul; Midori (Goto); Nathan
Milstein; Ivan Moravec; Moritz Moszkowski; Anne-Sophie
Mutter; Michala Petri; Gregor Piatigorsky; Ivo
Pogorelich; Manuel Ponce; Simon Preston; William
Primrose; Max Reger; Joaquin Rodrigo; Pepe Romero; Tito
Schipa; Alfred Schnittke; Peter Schreier; Stanislaw
Skrowaczewski; (Karl) Wilhelm Stenhammar; Toru
Takemitsu; Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev; Alexander
Tcherepnin; Kurt Thomas; Giuseppe Torelli; Rosalyn
Tureck; Günter Wand; Carl Maria von Weber; Earl Wild;
John Williams.
Other articles:
Brahms’ Piano Music (overview, history, style, context,
relevance)
Brahms, the Conservative (explication and commentary on
Schoenberg)
Chopin’s Piano Music (overview, history, style, context,
relevance)
Mahler’s Symphonies (overview, history, style, context,
relevance)
Recordings of Mahler
Schumann’s Piano Music (overview, history, style,
context, relevance)
Other publications: Review of Gustav Mahler: Briefe und Musikautographen aus den Moldenhauer-Archiven in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Naturlaut, vol. 3/1, June 2004. "Mahler’s Tenth Symphony: A look at the sketches and performing editions," Naturlaut, September 2005. "Cyclic and Referential Elements in Mahler’s Tenth Symphony," Naturlaut, September 2006. "Mahler as Pianist: the evidence of the song accompaniments," Naturlaut, June 2007 (forthcoming). "Can There be a Tenth? The State of the Sketches for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony," in Posthumous Collaborations, ed. James Zychowicz (Scarecrow Press, forthcoming). Books:
Mahler’s Tenth Symphony: Form and Genesis (UMI/ProQuest,
2002)
Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (Toccata Press, forthcoming)
Composing Experience
Brooklyn premieres of choral compositions: June 2000,
June 2001, June 2005
Portfolio of choral and chamber compositions
Other
Professional copyist (Finale)
Technical assistant for NYU music department
Research assistant at NYU
Basic proficiency in most instuments, and
advanced proficiency in brass instruments
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