Timothy
Steele
Opera Studies
Timothy Steele has a varied and extensive background as a collaborative pianist, vocal coach, audition pianist, and educator. He has served as assistant conductor/pianist for over 75 productions with 18 different companies, including Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Aperta, Portland Opera Repertory Theatre, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Long Beach Opera. Recent highlights include Carmen on the Common (BLO) and the world premiere of Argento's revised Miss Havisham's Fire (OTSL). He has been featured in performances in Europe, China, and Russia, and as an audition pianist he has played for the national finals of the MacAllister Opera Auditions. In Boston he plays regularly for the weekly Bach cantatas at Emmanuel Church, and has performed with the Handel and Haydn Society, the Auros Group for New Music, The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the American Repertory Theatre, among others.
B.M., in piano, summa cum laude, Drake University; M.M. in accompanying, magna cum laude, University of Southern California. Accompanying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Jean Barr; piano with George Katz, James Bonn, Chiu-ling Lin; harpsichord with David Harris; organ with Carl Staplin. Former faculty of Chapman College, Irvine Valley College.