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About NJGMC Artistic Staff: Steven A. Russell – Artistic Director and Conductor Steven A. Russell is the Artistic Director of The New Jersey Gay Men's Chorus and the Director of Sacred Music at St. Thomas More Church in Manalapan, New Jersey. He has directed the Rutgers University Queens Chorale and the Shrewsbury Chorale. Steven taught music in public and parochial schools for several years, and directed the music at churches in Colts Neck, Keyport, Atlantic Highlands, Navesink, and Edison, New Jersey. He studied music at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, singing with Paul Christiansen and the Concordia Choir, and finished his Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree magna cum laude at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, singing with Joseph Flummerfelt and the Westminster Choir throughout the United States and at the Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. He earned a Master of Music in Choral Conducting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, studying with Richard Westenburg. Steven is half of the piano duo, Polymania, performing throughout New Jersey and in the Bahamas. Steven has studied conducting with Frauke Hasemann, Allan Crowell and Richard Westenburg, piano with Harold Zabrack, organ with David Drinkwater, voice with Marvin Keenze, Bill Reed at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City and Daniel Shigo of the New York City Opera, and tap with Dan Peterson at the Red Bank Dance Academy. He is the chair of the Repertoire and Standards Committee for Community Choruses for the New Jersey American Choral Directors Association, and the president of the newly formed New Jersey Choral Consortium. Steven grew up in Avon Lake, Ohio, and lives with his husband, Joe, in Matawan, New Jersey. |
NJGMC || P.O. Box 21 || Princeton, NJ 08542 || Phone: 732-579-8449 || Email: info@njgmc.org