Steven Beck

Photographer: Shervin Lainez

Steven Beck is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin and Bruce Brubaker. 

This season Mr. Beck appears with the orchestras of Princeton and Chattanooga, can be heard in chamber music in Chicago and Oklahoma City, and repeats his annual Christmas Eve performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Bargemusic, which has become a New York institution.

He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Library of Congress; summer appearances have been at the Aspen Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. As an orchestral musician, he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and Orpheus.

Mr. Beck is an experienced performer of new music- he has premiered works by Charles Wuorinen and Fred Lerdahl, and made the first complete recording of George Walker’s piano sonatas, for Bridge Records. He is a member of The Knights, the Talea Ensemble, Quattro Mani, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. Steven Beck is a Steinway Artist, and is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Sewanee Music Center, as well as teaching orchestral piano at the Juilliard School.