Steven Russell

Steven served as the Artistic Director for the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus from 2002-2014, and the Rutgers University Queens Chorale from 1988-2002, and was Interim Artistic Director of the Shrewsbury Chorale from 2001-2002. Steven was the Assistant Conductor of the Monmouth Civic Chorus from 1996-2001, and their Scandinavian Tour Conductor in 1996. He conducted the All Shore Chorus in 2003 in an all-American program featuring Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. Steven most recently founded the Ravine Crossing Chamber Chorale, which performed from 2014-2017. He was the Founding President of the New Jersey Choral Consortium from 2008-2013. Steven has served as the chair of the Repertoire and Standards Committee for Community Choruses for the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association from 2010-2011, and served the same for the New Jersey chapter from 2008-2010.