Steven Gross has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, the West End and internationally as a music director, conductor, pianist, and conductor. He is a Lortel Award nominee for Best Musical for his adaption of The Pirates of Penzance at the South Street Seaport. He has conducted the European premieres of The Life, Urinetown, Falsettos, Beehive, Forever Plaid, Closer Than Ever, Flora the Red Menace, and other works. He also works extensively as a classical conductor and has appeared with many national and international opera companies, symphony orchestras, and festivals.
Steven has collaborated on new musicals with award-winning composers, including Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Cy Coleman, David Friedman, and Mark Hollmann. He also works as an orchestrator and arranger for many symphony orchestras, theatrical, digital, and online productions. His musical Nijinsky has been performed in Berlin, Zurich, and Monte Carlo.
Steven holds a doctor of musical arts in conducting degree from Yale University and is a Fulbright and Rotary scholar. He has extensive experience working in academia as a clinician, guest artist, and professor. He is the program head of the George Abbott Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theater Collaboration at Temple University.