American conductor Steven Fox is Music Director and Principal Conductor of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg, Artistic Director of New York's Clarion Music Society, and Associate Conductor of The Mendelssohn Project in Stuttgart. He also is a persuasive champion for the rediscovery and performance of works composed during the reign of Catherine the Great. Mr. Fox founded Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg as Russia's first period-instrument orchestra. With these world-class musicians, he has revived the works of many of the greatest 18th-century Russian composers, including Dmitri Bortniansky, Maxim Berezovsky and Evsigney Fomin. Under his leadership, the orchestra has performed worldwide and recorded three discs. A dedicated musicologist, Mr. Fox unearthed the earliest symphony by a composer of the Russian Empire, Sinfonia in C by Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1770). This was heralded by Olga Betko of the BBC World Service as an “absolutely remarkable discovery.” His article about this symphony was published by the British-Italian Journal, and he conducted the work’s world premiere at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 2003. As a church musician, Mr. Fox has conducted in the Brompton Oratory, London , St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Mr. Fox graduated from Dartmouth College with High Honors and three of the school’s top academic awards, and earned an MMus with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music where he also received the prestigious Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize, the Peter Le Huray Award and the Alan Kirby Prize. Mr. Fox is represented by William Reinert Associates, Inc., 163 Amsterdam Ave. #334, New York, NY 10023. Phone: 212-579-3308 ; Fax: 775-259-5585; bill@williamreinert.com. |
