Orchestration

Arranging & Adaptation

Steve has orchestrated, arranged or adapted thousands of pieces of music for recording sessions and live performance. He works with composers’ rough sketches and/or MIDI arrangements to create performance-ready parts for musicians.

An often overlooked but important task is transposing and adapting an existing piece of music into another key. While this can often be as simple as moving everything up or down a half-step, in some cases, partially re-voicing an entire score is necessary to maintain playability and musical clarity. Transposition can be done with existing printed sheet music, PDFs, software notation formats, or MIDI files.

  • Orchestration from MIDI sketches into fully realized, playable scores

  • String / brass / woodwind arrangements to complement an existing song

  • Score reduction / enlargement

  • Transposition of scores, lead sheets or individual parts

  • Piano reductions

  • Choir / SATB arrangements / transposition

  • Transcription from MIDI, audio or video sources

Orchestration Realizations

With over 1B views, Harry Styles’ Sign of the Times is one of the most successful singles in history. Steve was the orchestrator, conductor and contractor for this session.

Steve worked with virtuoso violinist Caroline Campbell to create this unique arrangement of “America” for her upcoming tour with Andrea Boccelli. Above, a clip from her performance at the Hollywood Bowl.