Steven Coburn is an active member of the Brooklyn music community as an accompanist, teacher, arranger, composer and musicologist. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree in performance and music education from the Crane School of Music at the State University College of New York at Potsdam and his M.A. and Ph.D. in music from New York University. Dr. Coburn studied choral music with such figures as Robert Shaw, Frank Pooler, Brock MacElheran and Gregg Smith, piano with George Mulfinger, Helen King and Jerome Rose, composition and theory with Elliot DelBorgo and Louis Karchin, and musicology with Edward Roesner, Stanley Boorman and Robert Bailey. In addition to teaching music at several middle schools and high schools, Dr. Coburn has also taught music at the Eugene Lang College of the New School University, New York University, and Pace University as well as privately in his own piano studio. In over 25 years of recital and accompanying experience he has performed in multiple venues and worked with singers, instrumentalists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, theater and show groups, and choruses. Dr. Coburn is the accompanist and assistant to the directors of the Brooklyn Community Chorus, and the Brooklyn Philharmonia Chorus, the accompanist and associate director of the Park Slope Singers, and has been the arranger and music director for Stageworks Summer Repertory Theater. As a musicologist, he has been a regular contributor to the All Music Guide and Naturlaut, and has written on musical subjects ranging from the Renaissance through progressive rock.
Dr. Coburn has been listed in "Who’s Who in America" since 2004
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