Steve Parsons, MM
Music Preparation, Recordings
Steve
was the Resident Musical Director at Carousel Dinner
Theatre from 2004-2009, where his work received the 2006
Cleveland area Times Newspapers’ “Outstanding Musical
Direction” award. Other credits include The Players Guild,
The Ohio Shakespeare Company, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera
and productions in New York. Additionally, he provided new
arrangements and orchestrations for Dean Pitchford’s
official revised version of FOOTLOOSE, created new versions
of the NUNSENSE scores for creator Dan Goggin, wrote
original music for the hit video game “College Slam”, and
performed in the “Tickestra” for the Fox animated
television series The Tick. Steve was also the arranger for
the Grateful Dead musical CUMBERLAND BLUES, which was
recently performed at the New York Musical Theatre
Festival, and orchestrated the regional musical IT’S A
WONDERFUL LIFE. An active composer as well as a member of
ASCAP, Steve has a Bachelor’s and Master’s in composition
and numerous published symphonic pieces and choral works.
His marching and concert band compositions and arrangements
are performed all over the United States and Canada, and he
has written numerous championship-winning show choir
selections. He is also orchestrating the LA musical LIFE
COULD BE A DREAM and is a consultant and contributor to
“Defying Gravity”, the recently released biography of
legendary songwriter Stephen Schwartz.