Steve Creswell

baroque viola

Stephen Creswell is an enthusiastic and lifelong proponent of both early music performance and chamber music. He has played with members of the Lafayette Quartet, studied with the Juilliard and Borodin quartets, and performed as a member of both the Alighieri Quartet and the Alder Quartet. Stephen has attended International String Quartet competitions and several workshops. His first teacher in early music endeavors was Stanley Ritchie, at Indiana University. Thereafter he has worked with August Wenzinger, Gustav Leonhardt, Phoebe Carrai, and Jean Lamon, among others, having studied at the Amherst and Oberlin summer institutes, and also performed and recorded with Tafelmusik. In Seattle, Stephen has performed with Tekla Cunningham and Caroline Nicolas in Pacific MusicWorks projects and in the Whidbey Island Music Festival, and with Henry Lebedinsky in Early Music Underground, Classical Uncorked! and for the American Guild of Organists Seattle Convention, 2022. He has played solos with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and Seattle Baroque Orchestra, been a founding member of the Seattle New Music Ensemble, taught chamber music in the schools for 12 years through the Seattle Chamber Music Society, and recently completed his third year as Chamber Music Program Coordinator at Summer Strings, the Cascade Youth Orchestra day camp for young musicians.