Steven is the conductor of the Thornbury Choral Society, and with them he has performed Britten's St Nicolas, Elgar's Music Makers, Mozart's Coronation Mass and Rossini's Stabat Mater. He has also led successful choral workshops on music by Handel, Mozart and Vivaldi, and in February 2008 The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins. [TCS]

He has been conducting choral and instrumental ensembles since his schooldays, and has particular experience of conducting the standard choral repertoire from 1700 to the present day. 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.

He conducted the Bristol Choral Society on tour to Hungary in 2003, performing Rutter’s Requiem and Kodaly’s Missa Brevis in Budapest and Kecskemét.

He conducted the BBC National Chorus of Wales in their Christmas concert at St David’s Hall, Cardiff in 2002 (broadcast on BBC Radio Wales), and the Bristol Choral Society in the BBC Bristol Christmas concert at Bristol Cathedral in 2003 (broadcast on BBC Radio Bristol).

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.

He also works as an assistant chorus master with the Bristol Choral Society and the BBC National Chorus of Wales alongside principal conductors Thierry Fischer, Richard Hickox and Adrian Partington [BBC NCW].