Steven Fox

Conductor Steven Fox has -- unusually for an American -- specialized in Russian choral music. He is the director of prominent ensembles in New York and Washington, D.C. Fox founded the Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg, one of the country's first historical instrument orchestras. In 2006, Fox was named artistic director of the Clarion Choir and Clarion Orchestra, which together make up the Clarion Music Society. With the Clarion Choir, Fox has recorded several works from Russian repertory, beginning with Maximilian Steinberg's Passion Week in 2016. In 2020, he was chorus master for the premiere recording of Dame Ethyl Smyth's vocal symphony, The Prison. That recording earned a Grammy Award. In 2023, Fox and the Clarion Choir moved to the PentaTone label, releasing a recording of Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil.