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Assistant Conductor Steven Hackman
 Fresh
from three conducting assignments in 2005-2006 which
included rave reviews for a Subscription concert, Steven
Hackman returns again to conduct New Year's Eve, the
Kinderkonzert and our student youth concerts. Steven Hackman
made his orchestral conducting debut at the age of twenty,
conducting Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Gustavo Romero at
the piano. Two months later he was accepted to the Curtis
Institute of Music, where in his three years as a conducting
student led dozens of performances of standard repertoire
and premiers of new music. In the summer of 2004 he was a
full fellowship student at the American Academy of
Conducting at Aspen, where he studied with David Zinman and
conducted the Academy Orchestra in concert. He conducted the
Detroit Civic Symphony Orchestra in December 2004 as a
participant in the ASOL’s Donald Thulean Conducting
Workshop, and is a regular conductor of the Orchestral
Society of Philadelphia. An advocate for innovative and
collaborative programming, he led two performances of
Barber’s Adagio for Strings accompanied by dancers at the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Also a choral
conductor, he has served as the Music Director of the
Swedish Museum Singers of Philadelphia, a group he directed
in concert for the Crown Princess of Sweden and the Swedish
Ambassador. He has served as Assistant Conductor of the
University of Illinois Varsity Men’s Glee Club, conducting
them on tour in Europe, and was Music Director of the “Other
Guys” vocal ensemble.
Active in education and audience development, Steven has
performed in outreach concerts with the Hartford Symphony
Orchestra, and has written and performed in programs for
young people at Curtis. He has led projects at Washington
Township High School and Bunker Hill Middle School that he
designed and planned: an arrangement project of Bernstein’s
On the Town Dance Suite at the high school, and a
composition project at the middle school where each young
musician writes his own miniature piece step by step. He is
a yearly clinician at the American String Teachers
Association festival, and has served on the faculty at
Eastern Illinois Summer Music. He remains involved with his
alma mater, Cary-Grove High School, where he presents yearly
outreach concerts from the piano, arranges and composes for
the choirs, and works as a clinician with the students.
As a pianist, Steven has performed Mozart concerti from the
keyboard, and gives a duo recital each year with his sister
Michelle, a soprano. Their last concert was a benefit for
the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. He believes
strongly in the integration of all styles of music, and has
presented programs that combine classical piano selections
with his own compositions and arrangements, moving
seamlessly between the two with improvisation. His
graduation recital from Curtis featured his own Fantasy on
Two Beatles Songs for woodwind quintet and singer, an
arrangement of the American folk tune Shenendoah for Brass
Quintet, as well as two original songs (the remainder of the
concert was a Mozart piano concerto led from the keyboard
and Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings). Steven has
self-performed and produced two albums of original music.
Steven received his undergraduate degree in piano
performance from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, where he held an Advocates for Young
Artists Scholarship. There he received the Branigan Award
for Outstanding Undergraduate Performance, and was runner up
in the Clara Roland Piano Competition. He received an
Artist’s Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where
he held the Ralph and Suzanne Roberts Fellowship. He has
studied advanced counterpoint and improvisation with Dr.
Ford Lallerstedt, and his conducting teachers include
Otto-Werner Mueller, Donald Schleicher, and David Zinman.
Steven has conducted in workshops with Daniel Lewis, Michael
Morgan, and Thomas Wilkins.
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