Author/Educator
Steve is a music educator with over 30 years of experience teaching intermediate to advanced students, educators and professional musicians. Special areas of instruction for private students, clinics and Master Classes are Music Interpretation, Improvisation, Arranging and Composition.
Steve authored The Source, a book widely used by teachers and university programs worldwide. Published by Hal Leonard, with a foreword by Dr. Billy Taylor, and enthusiastic endorsements by Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Clark Terry and Lionel Hampton, The Source has become the standard scale/chord reference book in music education. Recently, the Source was revised and re-released in a 2nd edition to include the classical music market. Endorsements from the classical world include Rebecca Penneys (Eastman School of Music), classical pianists Jeffrey Biegel and John Bayless, and Composer/Conductor David Amram.
Steve has released four books of his original compositions and arrangements, and arranged several books for Hal Leonard, most notably The Beatles songbook.
