He is a trombonist who studied music and science at Indiana University and won the Brass Solo Concerto Competition while there. Later competitions resulted in him taking first prize at the Lewis Van Haney International Trombone Competition in Las Vegas. He took further studies at the Juilliard School of Music where he completed the Master of Music program and while there he premiered “Playtime”, which is a trombone concerto by Ruben Seroussi.
He was a founder of the prize-winning Juilliard Trombone Ensemble and a member of the original line-up of the Extension Ensemble who were the first prize recipients of the Fishoff Chamber Competition in 1999. That same year he took the position of Assistant Principal/Second Trombone at the San Antonio Symphony and stayed with them for a season before accepting the post of Assistant Principal Trombone with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2002.
He also currently performs with the trombone quartet Studio 309 and has previously been a member of the Presidents Own Marine Corps Band in Washington DC.
He has made several recordings, which include Trombonastics by Joseph Alessi, Holiday Brass featuring Susan Slaughter and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In the field of education he is a Trombone Teacher of Applied Music at the Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Holiday Brass recordings
Angels We Have Heard on High (Traditional French/James Chadwick/Edward Barnes)
Music Masters 01782 (CD: Holiday Brass featuring Susan Slaughter)
Trumpet – Susan Slaughter
St. Louis Children’s Choirs – Concert Choir
Here he is performing John Philip Sousa’s “The Thunderer March”with the St. Louis Low Brass Collective…
Sources:
- http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~music/lange.htm
- http://www.slso.org/cpp/articles/cpp5.htm
- http://www.indiana.edu/~trombone/HeadlineDetails03-04.shtml
- http://www.trombonesonline.com/artist-trombone/stephenlange.htm
- http://www.gatewaybrassquintet.com/gwbq_store/index.html?loadfile=item2.html