"...[Juggernaut] was lean-in-and-pay-attention stuff, which Cohen backed up with a 10-minute composition full of brilliant details - swirling textures, leaping rhythms, neat intertwining melodies and forceful, novel combinations of instrumental colors..."
- David Williams, Saturday Gazette-Mail, November 13, 2004
STEVE COHEN received his training at the Eastman, Juilliard and Manhattan Schools of Music, and has composed a large catalog of symphonic, chamber, liturgical and musical-theater pieces, including the operas The Cop and the Anthem (libretto by Alison Hubbard after the O. Henry story; available on rental from Theodore Presser) and La Pizza Del Destino (libretto by Joseph Renard). Steve’s Wind Quintet is included on a CD of American Music by the Pennsylvania Wind Quintet on the Centaur label, and his Saxophone Quartets Nos 1 and 2 are available from To The Fore Publishers. (Quartet No 2 is included on a CD by the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet on the Eclectra label) Prizes and awards for Steve’s music include the 2004 Composer’s Award given jointly by the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Museum in the Community for Juggernaut, the 2006 Susan Galloway Sacred Song Award (first and second prizes for Psalm 84 and Psalm 121) and the 2007 New York Treble Singers competition prize for Hashkiveinu. As an arranger and orchestrator, Steve has supplied scores for the New York Pops Orchestra, Radio City Music Hall, Maureen McGovern, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the American Ballet Theater, composer Kevin Oldham, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Vivace Singers, the Synergy String Quartet, James Graseck, the Goldman Memorial Band, Edwin F. Kalmus Publishers, the PanAmericana Latin jazz band, the world premieres of the musicals Behind the Limelight (Christopher Curtis), Spittin’ Image (Stephen Weiner), The Visit (Kander & Ebb, assisting Michael Gibson), and touring companies of Beauty And The Beast, Porgy and Bess, Crazy For You, Guys and Dolls and The Secret Garden.