Steven is the conductor of the Thornbury Choral Society, and performances with them include Britten's St Nicolas, Duruflé's Requiem, Elgar's Music Makers, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Rossini's Messe Solennelle. He has also led successful choral workshops on music by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Tippett, Vivaldi and others. The 2009-2010 season has included performances of Handel's Messiah and Bach's St John Passion, as well as a workshop on the Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky. [TCS]

He conducted the Bristol University Singers during the academic year 2008-9, giving three lunchtime concerts of unusual and exciting music with this excellent young chamber choir. The programmes included works by Liszt, Tippett and Villette, music by past and present professors Raymond Warren and Geoff Poole, madrigals, and a short set by Steven himself [Listen].

Steven is Assistant Music Director of Bristol Choral Society. He conducted them on tour to Hungary in 2003, performing Rutter’s Requiem and Kodaly’s Missa Brevis in Budapest and Kecskemét, and also in the BBC Bristol Christmas concert at Bristol Cathedral in 2003 (broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol). He conducted their performance at the opening night of the Bristol Harbourside Festival in 2006. [BCS]

He is also Assistant Director of the BBC National Chorus of Wales, whom he conducted in their Christmas concert at St David’s Hall, Cardiff in 2002 (broadcast on BBC Radio Wales). He has worked regularly as their assistant chorus master alongside principal conductors Thierry Fischer, Adrian Partington, and the late Richard Hickox. [BBC NCW].

Between 1999 and 2004 he was director of the Cotswold Chorus, with whom he conducted performances of Copland’s Old American Songs, Dvorak’s Mass in D, Fauré’s Requiem, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, Haydn’s Maria Theresa Mass, Mozart’s Requiem and Solemn Vespers, Pergolesi’s Magnificat, Rutter’s Requiem and Vaughan Williams’ Benedicite.

Instrumental works conducted include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no. 4, Elgar's Serenade for Strings, Haydn's Symphony no. 44 ("Trauer"), Mendelssohn’s Symphony no. 4, Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Nielsen’s Little Suite for Strings, Sibelius’ Finlandia, Stravinsky’s Soldier's Tale, Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Meistersinger overture.