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