Steven Sametz is the Ronald J. Ulrich Professor of Music at Lehigh University and Artistic Director of the professional chamber choir, The Princeton Singers. Well-known as a composer, conductor and educator, he has appeared as guest conductor with the New York Chamber Symphony, the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Berkshire Music Festival, the Netherlands Radio Choir, CONCORA, and the Delaware and Pennsylvania All-State Choruses. At the Santa Fe Music Festival, he conducted his own works
in a program entitled “Sametz conducts Sametz.” He has led Chanticleer in the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 at Lehigh, in New York and in San Francisco. He made his Carnegie Hall début in 2014, conducting Lehigh Choral Arts in his choral symphony, Carmina amoris. Active as a composer, Sametz has been hailed as “one of the most respected choral composers in America.” He has been commissioned to create works for Chanticleer, The Princeton Singers, the Dale Warland Singers, the National Cathedral, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Cantus, the Rioult Dance Company, and the King of Thailand. Dr. Sametz’s compositions have been heard throughout the world at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Santa Fe music festivals. He is the recipient of the American Choral Director Association’s Raymond Brock Memorial Commission, writing Three Mystical Choruses for premiere by Chanticleer at Chicago’s Symphony Hall.