Acclaimed Composer Russell Steinberg, PhD, Celebrates a Lifetime of Work with Exciting Public Release of Music Catalog

 

ACCLAIMED COMPOSER RUSSELL STEINBERG, PH.D.,

CELEBRATES A LIFETIME OF WORK WITH EXCITING PUBLIC RELEASE OF MUSIC CATALOG

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Live Performance and Celebration – June 14 via Zoom

Los Angeles, Calif.  (June 10, 2025) – A catalog of new classical music – favoring an emotional style infusing Romanticism with the pulse and color of contemporary soul -- is being publicly launched by Los Angeles-based composer Russell Steinberg, Ph.D.  Recently named one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year, Steinberg’s work is now available entirely online at https://www.russellsteinberg.com/composer.

Steinberg’s catalog features nearly 100 original works for chamber ensembles, orchestra, solo performers, and vocalists, thoughtfully composed for both seasoned musicians and emerging players. Spanning decades of creative output, this collection of compositions is now available for performers to preview and purchase, and the interested layperson to listen to.  Each piece is professionally notated and curated for performers, educators, and music enthusiasts alike.

Join Us to Experience the Catalog via a Zoom party!   

To watch a catalog demo join us for a live performance on Zoom featuring Steinberg and six gifted musicians:

• Selections from Periods of Luminance and Beach Pebbles with Russell Steinberg, piano
• “Mirror Eyes” and “It Is Never Too Late” from Sacred Transitionswith mezzo soprano Diana Tash
• “Into Night” from the piano trio Paleface with Alisa Luera, violin; Charlie Tyler, cello; Nora Chiang Wrobel, piano
• Piano Quartet Mulholland Fantasies with Alisa Luera, violin; Bryan Gonzalez, viola; Charlie Tyler, cello; Alexandre Tchaykov, piano
• Both Alisa Luera and Bryan Gonzalez have performed with the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra (www.losangelesyouthorchestra.org)

Date: Saturday, June 14^th

Time: 4:30 – 5:30 PT; 7:30 – 8:30 ET

Zoom Info: Zoom Link for Russell Steinberg Catalog Release Concert Saturday June 14, 4:30pm Pacific Time

Meeting ID: 854 2054 4903
Passcode: 970345

 

The Composer

Russell Steinberg, Ph.D. in Composition, Harvard University, has a list of accomplishments in the classical music field that made him a perfect candidate for Musical America’s recent honor.  He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra for 25 years, a group that has gone on tour to Carnegie Hall twice, and traveled to Italy, Vienna and Prague to perform.   He is a popular pre-concert lecturer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  And Steinberg’s Zoom music lecture series, as well as his “Classical Listening Hangouts,” attract an enthusiastic global fan base on a weekly basis.  His concert music has been performed extensively in the United States and abroad in Austria, Italy, Czechia, Mexico, Chile, New Zealand, and Israel.

Steinberg’s music has been described as “floating, luminous” (Boston Globe), and “freshly lyrical, pulsating, edgy, infectious” (New York Concert Review).  Fanfare Magazine wrote “Steinberg’s music goes deeper while maintaining a descriptive surface.” His piano trio Paleface inspired by the artwork of New York “psychological-pop” artist Jerry Kearns is available on Albany records, recorded by Trio Accento. Three orchestras— New West/Los Angeles, Bay Atlantic/New Jersey, and Hopkin/ Baltimore—commissioned and premiered Cosmic Dust, a work that Science News Magazine featured in its issue celebrating the 25^th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Daniel Pearl Foundation commissioned Stories From My Favorite Planet, alternating music with Pearl’s own tragi-comic articles. Steinberg’s Hanukkah fantasy Lights On! is performed annually by the Bay Atlantic Symphony in New Jersey and the Hopkins Symphony in Baltimore, and last year as well by the Lakeview Orchestra in Chicago and the Southeast Kansas Symphony in Pittsburg, Kansas.  

The Catalog

Steinberg’s Catalog is set up in four sections: Solo Music, Chamber Music, Orchestra Music and Vocal Music.  The compositions range from 3 to 44 minutes.

Solo Music www.russellsteinberg.com/solo

The catalog’s Solo section focuses on piano, guitar, violin, cello and clarinet.  Many of these pieces explore the wonder of nature, including piano pieces Beach Pebbles, Desert Stars (Death Valley), Joy in the Sea, The Perseids, and Small Rain; violin piece Maroon Bells, and White Crane Study.  Steinberg’s piano solo -- Variations of Amazing Grace -- transports the listener home to a familiar and comforting melody.

Chamber Music  www.russellsteinberg.com/chamber

The Chamber section focuses on Duos, Trios, Quartets and Large Ensembles. Steinberg’s music here features the wild west of his Paleface piano trio, a violin virtuoso journey that tells the story of Wall St. Journalist Daniel Pearl in his own words in Stories From My Favorite Planet, an intersection of a string quartet with a world music percussion trio in Strange Attractors, as well as string quartets, trios, and a flute sonata.   

Orchestra Music www.russellsteinberg.com/orchestra

This section focuses on Steinberg’s music for professional orchestras, and youth orchestras.  The music is influenced by the cosmos and night sky in Cirrus Nimbus and Cosmic Dust 1 and 2, city life in Symphony No. 1 CityStrains, a Hanukkah celebration in Lights On!, and the struggle to preserve democracy in Diminished Resistance. The youth orchestra pieces are generally easy to learn with upbeat Shabbat tunes of Sabbath Fantasy 1 & 2, and the infectious mixed meters of Carnegie Overture, an energetic opening for Los Angeles Youth Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall debut.

Vocal Music www.russellsteinberg.com/vocal

Finally, the Vocal section features art song cycles for voice with piano, or chamber ensemble, based on texts by James Joyce (Lights of Amethyst), American poet Ray Underwood (Brim a Brew), noted American rabbi Harold M. Schulweis (Sacred Transitions), and Holocaust survivor Juliane Heyman (Rucksack).

The catalog includes a guided tour with videos for navigation, highlights of special works, and anecdotes about Steinberg’s musical evolution. All composition entries in Steinberg’s catalog include instrumentation, list of movements, duration, and program notes that tell the story behind the music. Most also include audio and/or video recordings.

For more information and links to the catalog visit https://www.russellsteinberg.com/composer

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