Steven Aldredge, M.M.

M240 Creative Arts Center
steven.aldredge@wright.edu

Steven Aldredge, piano: received his B.M. and M.M. in piano performance from Florida State University (FSU) as a student of James Streem, where he was the graduate teaching assistant in piano. Pursuing his DMA at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Mr. Aldredge studied with Elizabeth and Eugene Pridonoff, and was a graduate teaching assistant in piano. He has competed in numerous national and international competitions (Joanna Hodges Competition, Washington D.C. International), and was one of six national finalists in the MTNA Wurlitzer Collegiate Artist Piano Competition, a finalist-alternate in both the Simone Belsky Award International Piano Competition and the MacMahon International Competition.

He has performed extensively as soloist and collaborator both in the US and abroad. As a fellowship winner of the Pacific Music Festival, Mr. Aldredge performed a series of collaborative concerts in Japan with the principal members of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra (Munich Philharmonic) which were broadcast throughout Asia . Also while in Japan he performed with the Pacific Festival Orchestra. Mr. Aldredge has performed with well-known conductors such as Christopher Zimmerman, Philip Spurgeon, Michael Barrett, and Eji Oue. He was the winner of the concerto competitions at both CCM and FSU, performing as soloist with the orchestras at both institutions. In addition, Mr. Aldredge was the first prize winner of the Florida FSMTA Collegiate Artist Competition for three years in a row (1989-91), the only pianist ever to achieve this distinction. He was the recipient of the prestigious Presser Award as well as the winner of the Burgin Scholarship Competition. He has performed as guest artist on many recital series, most notably the MacDowell Series, The Bay Area Artist Series, The Cincinnati Museum of Art, The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts, Ball State University , the NFA Rising Stars, Shimisu-Cho (Japan), Goshen College , Ohio University, and the Artbeat of Israel. He is a founding member of Tutti Solisti, an ensemble devoted to the performance of chamber music; the group was a featured Friday performing ensemble at the 2005 College Music Society Conference ( Midwest ).

Currently receiving international acclaim as a songwriter, Mr. Aldredge recently received notice that two of his songs were chosen from among thousands as Top Twenty finalists in the prestigious UNISONG International Songwriting Competition (Christian/Gospel Category) and were recently described as "boldly adventurous" by Britain’s Crossrhythms Magazine. The Christian Country Music AssociationÆs publication, Power Source Magazine, recently pronounced the CD ’age to age’, which features all of Aldredge’s songs, as "...one of the most interesting and refreshingly new CD’s I’ve heard in years...I love every note."

Also an avid arranger and transcriber, Mr. Aldredge has authored many transcriptions of solo piano works for wind/piano duos, including: Deux Ondines by Debussy and Ravel, for flute and piano; Suite in C (from Ten Pieces for Piano, Op. 12) by S. Prokofiev, for Piano and Wind Quintet; Three Pieces from Faschingschwank aus Wien by R. Schumann, for Horn and Piano; Suite from Early Works by S. Rachmaninoff, for Saxophone and Piano; 3 Pieces by S. Rachmaninoff, for Clarinet and Piano; Suite Francaise by F. Poulenc, for Oboe and Piano; Nocturnes by F. Poulenc, for Bassoon and Piano; In memoriam (from Moments Musicaux in b minor) by S. Rachmaninoff, for Cello and Piano.