1. Dr. Stephen Matthew Black www.steblack.com
331 Pleasant Avenue, #4 Mobile: 917-239-0919
New York, NY 10035 Email: sblack@aya.yale.edu
EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________________
December 2015 DMA Choral Music University of Southern California
1999 MMA Choral Conducting Yale University Institute of Sacred Music
1992 MM Organ Performance University of Louisville School of Music
1989 BM University of Louisville School of Music
EXPERIENCE_________________________________________________________________________
Music Director, Amuse Singers New York, NY
September 2014-present
• Conductor of nine to twelve member semi-professional women’s chamber choir in an annual three-
concert season.
Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
August 2010-May 2013
• Instructor of Record for students enrolled in MUEN 308/508 USC Men’s Chorus. Works performed
include Mozart Dir, Seele des Weltalls K. 429 and Arvo Pärt Wallfahrtslied.
• Administered graduate auditions in 2011-12 and 2012-13. Also administered the USC JUCO
Invitational Choral Festival in February 2012. Assistant to President of ACDA 2011-2013.
Artistic Director, Central City Chorus New York, NY
September 2005-May 2010
• Conducted a mixed chorus of fifty singers in an annual subscription series of three concerts. Works
performed included Bach Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, Brahms Requiem, Delius Requiem.
Collaborated in performance with the Astoria Symphony Orchestra (Mendelssohn Elijah), the Empire
State Youth Orchestra (Walton Belshazzar’s Feast), and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
(Beethoven Symphony No. 9).
Chair, Music Department, The Buckley School New York, NY
September 2001-June 2003
• Instructed Middle and Upper School boys in theory, sight-singing and music appreciation.
• Supervised the Lower School music department, and the Middle and Upper School applied music
program.
• Directed the Glee Clubs in choral concerts and theatrical performances.

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Assistant Conductor, New Amsterdam Singers New York, NY
September 2002-July 2005
• Assisted conductor of eighty member mixed chorus in rehearsal and performance.
Artistic Director, The Greater New Haven Community Chorus New Haven, CT
September 1999-May 2002
• Conducted eighty member mixed chorus and instrumentalists in an annual concert season.
Director of Music and Organist, Saint Joseph’s Church Yorkville New York, NY
September 1999-June 2010
• Conducted the Parish Choir, Family Mass Youth Choir, and St. Joseph’s Singers in liturgies and
concerts. Works performed include Fauré Requiem, Gerald Finzi In terra pax, and Vivaldi Gloria.
• Founded the St. Joseph’s Singers, a semi-professional mixed choir of sixteen to twenty-four singers.
Works performed include Bach Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV 106, Himmelskönig, sei
willkommen BWV 182, and Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore K. 339.
• Prepared the Parish Choir and St. Joseph’s Singers for a concert on the occasion of the internationally
televised visit of Pope Benedict XVI to St. Joseph’s Church, April 18, 2008.
Teaching Assistant, Yale School of Music New Haven, CT
September 1998-May 1999
• Taught Section D of Advanced Hearing and Analysis MUS 692B.
Conductor of Yale University Battell Chapel Choir
September 1997-May 1999
• Conducted auditioned mixed choir of 24 undergraduate students in Sunday services, concerts and
tours. Participated in annual Three Choirs Festival with the chapel choirs of Harvard and Princeton.
Works performed include J. S. Bach Unser Mund sei voll Lachens BWV 110 and Arvo Pärt Te Deum.
Assistant Professor of Music, St. Catharine College Springfield, CT
August 1993-June 1995
• Directed the chapel choir in services and college assemblies. Conducted the college choir in concerts
and town and gown events. Taught courses in music appreciation and elementary music methods.
• Served as faculty advisor to the Student Senate.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES__________________________________________________________
Guest conductor - St. George’s Choral Society Summersing, West Village Chorale Summersing,
Association of Connecticut Choruses Summersing, Empire City Men’s Chorus, Lincoln Center Theater,
HarlemStage, National Association of Composers East Coast Chapter, and American Opera Project.
Professional singer - regularly appeared and recorded with the New York Virtuoso Singers, and also
recorded with the Society for Universal Sacred Music and the Vedantic Arts Ensemble. Performed in
world premieres at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.
HONORS_____________________________________________________________________________
2002 Recipient, conductor fellowship, Dennis Keene Choral Festival, sponsored by Chorus America.
1997 Winner, Richard French Prize in Choral Conducting, given by the Yale Institute of Sacred
Music to a student “considered to be in the top 1 or 2 percent of candidates in choral
conducting in the country”.
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