Stephen Wogaman

Piano

Stephen Wogaman, pianist, has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician and teaching artist since the early 1980’s. He was the founding pianist of the Whitney Trio, which made its debut in a critically acclaimed live radio broadcast concert in 1989 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Other performances include the Phillips Collection in Washington, the Weis Center for the Arts at Bucknell University, the Vassar College Chamber Music Series, and residencies in Costa Rica and Spain. Chamber colleagues have included members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfonica de Gallicia. He was trained at the Eastman School of Music and the Indiana University School of Music, where he completed a Doctor of Music degree under the legendary chamber pianist, Menahem Pressler.

In May 2011 Stephen Wogaman became the fourth president of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. For seven years before that he served for seven years as the chief executive of two orchestras, establishing new chamber music series in both. He was Executive Director of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Allentown, Pennsylvania and its historic Symphony Hall. More recently, he was president and CEO of the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Canton, Ohio. In the 1990’s, Steve and his wife, Michele, developed New Performing Arts, a non-profit music outreach organization that has reached an audience of nearly two million Kentucky children with live performing arts programs in their schools. He also developed programmatic partnerships with the nation’s classical music training institutions, including the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University Opera Theater, the New World Symphony and others.