Steven Fox

Steven Fox is Artistic Director of the Clarion Choir & Orchestra. He is also Music Director of Cathedral Choral Society at Washington National Cathedral. Fox has served as Assistant Conductor at the New York Philharmonic to Jaap van Zweden during the 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons and has appeared as a guest conductor with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Handel & Haydn Society, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Opéra de Québec, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Music of the Baroque in Chicago, Washington Bach Consort, and Theatre of Early Music in Toronto. He has served as a chorus master for the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap (2024) and the Kennedy Center (2025). In 2023 and 2024, Fox led performances of Rachmaninoff’s complete choral works, a project that was featured in the New York Times and BBC Music Magazine, and which culminated with a performance of the composer’s Vespers at Carnegie Hall. He has made four recordings of choral music by Rachmaninoff and his contemporaries Maximilian Steinberg and Alexander Kastalsky. This series has received nominations for a Grammy (Best Choral Performance) and the BBC Music Magazine Choral Award and was named an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone. He has been recently nominated for a Grammy for Best Choral Performance for Clarion’s new recording of Requiem of Light by Patti Drennan. Fox was named an Associate (ARAM) of the Royal Academy of Music and has given master classes at the Royal Academy of Music, his alma mater Dartmouth College, the Juilliard School, and Yale University, where he also served for two years as preparatory conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum.