Steve Parsons

Steve Parsons is an award-winning composer, orchestrator, and music director. His composing credits include Evensong (for choir and orchestra), Seascapes (RBC Publications), Frankenstein: The Puppet Opera (Translations Art Gallery), Rise City Silent, Sing!, College Slam (video game, Akklaim), and numerous commissions for symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, and choral ensembles. His musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol has enjoyed performances at The Players Guild Theatre in New York (Off-Off Broadway), and Vietnam (The International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City). As an orchestrator, he has arranged the Grateful Dead musical Cumberland Blues (NYMF, NY), Life Could Be A Dream (Additional vocal arrangements/orchestrations, LA), It’s A Wonderful Life(Regional), and Footloose (Additional vocal arrangements/orchestrations, Rodgers & Hammerstein Library). Other credits: Nunsenseand Nunsense A-Men! (music preparation, NY), The Tick (member of the “Tickestra,” FOX), and Defying Gravity: The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz (consultant and contributor, Applause Books).