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He is a flautist, piccolo player and author, often
known as Steve, born in Boston who studied for degrees in the piccolo and
flute at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Philadelphia Music
Academy.
He has been active in the music industry of the East
Coast of America for several decades and in the 1980s he became a member of
the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and remained with
them for more than two decades as Principal Piccolo. He also held the same position with
Peter Nero and the Philly Pops.
He has also performed with many other ensembles and
orchestras that include the American Ballet Theatre, Baltimore Symphony,
the Kirov Ballet, the Miami Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the
Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra and he has recorded with the
New York Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta. He has performed at several
nightclubs and in 2002 he began to play at Atlantic City’s Caesar’s as a
featured flutist.
Also working in music by popular artists, he was
accompanied singers such as Andrea Bocelli, Ray Charles, Bobby Rydell and
Mel Torme.
As an author he has written the instructional A
Basic Guide to Fingerings for the Piccolo and in the field of musical
education he has given many masterclasses alongside artists such as
Jean-Paul Rampal and for Washington D.C.’s Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair and the
Flute Society of Philadelphia.
He is also the president of the piccolo headjoint
manufacturing Tanzer Headjoint Co I Franklinville, New Jersey.
The Philadelphia Singers recordings
Adeste Fidelis (Frederick Oakeley/John Francis Wade)
RCA 6559-2-RC (Gloria! Gloria!)
Soprano – Benita Valente
Concerto Soloists Chamber
Orchestra of Philadelphia
Conductor – Michael Korn
Sources:
- http://www.tanzermusic.com/
- http://www.magikflute.com/~tanzermusic/Tanzer_Broch.pdf
- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-tanzer/16/794/8b5
- http://www.piccolohq.com/players.html
- http://www.larrykrantz.com/makers.htm
- http://www.spso.info/roster.htm
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