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Steve Amerson with Laurie Gayle Stephenson
Songs from the Broadway Stage and Screen
Saturday - May 3, 2008 7:00 pm
Steve Amerson has established a reputation as an excellent tenor with a vocal flexibility that allows him to feel at home in both popular/contemporary music and classical literature. Songs from the Broadway stage and screen include selections from productions and films like Man of La Mancha, Jekyll and Hyde, West Side Story, Les Miserables, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. With the wealth and depth of his performance experience, radio personality, Rick Dees has dubbed Steve as America’s Tenor.
Steve has been a featured soloist with virtually every major performing organization in Southern California and has made numerous appearances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Hollywood Bowl. He as performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Long Beach Symphony, The William Hall Chorale, The Orange County Master Chorale, the Ojai Festival, and the Mozart Festival in San Luis Obispo. He has also been a guest soloist with numerous orchestras across the United States and Mexico. In 2006, Steve made his Carnegie Hall debut singing in the world premiere of Missa Americana by Ed Lojeski.
Steve was one of three tenors chosen to record demonstration tapes used by Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras in preparation for select The 3 Tenors performances including their 1994 Dodger Stadium concert, 1998 Paris concert and 2002 Yokohama, Japan concert.
Along with his concert schedule, which includes 50–60 Christmas and sacred concerts, Steve does studio singing for various recording projects, movies, commercials and television shows. His voice can be heard on over 150 feature films. Presently, much of Steve’s time is dedicated in presenting concerts based on his Front Row Center project, which is a collection of inspiring songs from the Broadway stage and screen.
Projects on which Steve’s voice is heard include Get Smart – The Movie, Evan Almighty, Meet the Robinsons, King Kong, Fantastic Four, Matrix Revolutions, Matrix Reloaded, Men In Black II, Jurassic Park 3, A.I., John Q., Touched By An Angel, Contact, Men In Black, Wild Wild West, Anastasia, Amistad, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones; Temple of Doom, Hunt For Red October, Joe vs. the Volcano, Glory, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Hercules, Far And Away, Hook, Man Trouble, Batman Returns, the Abyss, Three Musketeers, Picket Fences, Cheers, Suddenly Susan, Highway To Heaven, Designing Women,
St. Elsewhere, The Flintstones, The Santa Clause, The 1990 & 1991 Academy Awards Shows and commercials for IBM, Honda, Lexus, Nissan, Toyota, the Marines, Lea & Perrins, Perkins Restaurants, Isuzu, U. S. Sprint, Kibbles & Bits, Texaco, Ford Trucks, Coco's Restaurants, Diet Coke and Delta Air Lines.
Laurie Gayle Stephenson made her Broadway debut in the Tony award-winning The Secret Garden where she performed the role of Lily. She starred for two years on Broadway as Christine Daae in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. Most recently, Laurie had the honor of performing An Evening of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert at The Kennedy Center. She is a regular soloist with the popular Bravo Broadway and has sung with most major symphony orchestras across the country.
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