Steven Fox Music Director

Praised by the American Record Guide for his 'precision and expression', Steven Fox is the Artistic Director and Conductor of New York's Clarion Music Society, and Music Director and Principal Conductor of Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg, in Russia. This past season he was an Associate Conductor at New York City Opera. He is also in his fourth season as Music Director of The Taghkanic Chorale. In 2009 Mr. Fox was appointed Acting Director of Music at Trinity Church, Wall Street.

Mr. Fox studied Music and Russian at Dartmouth College, graduating as a Senior Fellow with High Honors. He then trained at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he received the MMus degree with Distinction along with the Sir Thomas Armstrong Prize, the Peter Le Huray Award and the Alan Kirby Prize.

At the age of 21, Mr. Fox traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, and founded the country's first period-instrument orchestra, Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg. With Musica Antiqua, he has revived a lost repertoire of Russian 18th-century music from the court of Catherine the Great. Among the works he has premiered from this period are the earliest symphony by a Russian composer -- Sinfonia in C by Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1770), which he has conducted in London, St. Petersburg, and New York – and Dmitri Bortniansky's final opera, Le fils rival, which he conducted in fully-staged performances in the Hermitage Theater.

In 2006, Mr. Fox was appointed the third Artistic Director of the Clarion Music Society, succeeding Newell Jenkins and Frederick Hammond. In three full seasons with Clarion, Mr. Fox has led the Society's orchestra and choir in critically-acclaimed performances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Morgan Library's Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Aston Magna Festival, and St. Ignatius Loyola in conjunction with the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series. BBC Music Magazine has called his leadership of Clarion 'visionary'; Musical America declared, 'Under its new music director, Clarion is re-emerging as an important force in Early Music', and The New York Times announced, 'The venerable Clarion Music Society...came back to life early this year with Steven Fox as artistic director, and it is good to have it back.'

Increasingly in demand as a conductor of early opera and oratorio, Mr. Fox recently served as the Associate Conductor for New York City Opera's productions of Handel's Agrippina and Purcell's King Arthur; he was the first-ever guest conductor at the legendary Aston Magna Festival in July of 2008; conducted Handel's Judas Maccabeus in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September, 2008 with Jauna Muzika, and conducted performances of Handel's Rinaldo in Mexico City in the spring of 2009.

Mr. Fox has taught master classes in Baroque performance practice at Yale University and Dartmouth College.

Mr. Fox is managed by Schwalbe & Partners.