Conductor and keyboard player Steven Devine received his early musical training at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester and read music at Oxford University. He is now in demand across the world and is at home in the fields of opera, large-scale concerts, chamber music and solo performances.

He made his London conducting debut in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall and is now a regular performer there. He has conducted the Mozart Festival Orchestra in every major concert hall in the UK and also across Switzerland. Future plans with them include another tour of Switzerland and also Germany. In opera, Steven has worked at the Comische Oper in Berlin and has alongside Paul Mcreesh throughout France. Recently appointed Associate Music Director of Opera Restor’d, he has conducted at Wigmore Hall in London, at the Warwick, Lake District, Stour Norwich and English Haydn Festivals. Steven works regularly with New Chamber Opera in Oxford and with them has conducted performances of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Mozart’s La Finta Semplice, Stradella’s Il Trespolo Tutore and Rossini's Il Comte Ory. For the Dartington Festival Opera he has conducted Handel’s Orlando. He has conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in concerts across Europe and made his BBC Proms conducting debut with them last year in a televised concert with Ian Bostridge.

Steven is the harpsichordist for London Baroque and Co-Principal keyboard player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also the principal keyboard player for I Fagiolini, Apollo and Pan and The Classical Opera Company and performs regularly with many other groups around Europe. He has recorded over thirty discs with other artists and ensembles and made three solo recordings.

Ever since his schooldays, Steven has been associated with the Finchcocks Collection of historic keyboard instruments in Kent and was recently promoted to the post of Director of Education. Steven was appointed Professor of Fortepiano at Trinity College of Music in 2003

Sep 08