Stephen Savage

Education and Training
’75, ’80 MM, New England Conservatory
Stephen Savage
Division: Expanded Education
Department: Music Theory
Instrument: Piano
Musician and composer Stephen William Savage was born in St. Louis, MO and grew up in the Santa Fe, NM area. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Music with Honors and a Master of Music in music composition. He is now a member of the theory faculty at New England Conservatory's Preparatory School and Expanded Education Division, and he also works as a freelance music teacher and pianist.
Formerly, he was a faculty member at Berklee College of Music, teaching theory, composition, and piano, and was a faculty member at Groton Center for the Arts, whose music school later became Indian Hill Arts, now Groton Hill Music Center. Through outreach programs at these institutions, he worked at the Groton School and Lawrence Academy as a piano teacher, and he also assisted at Lawrence Academy as choral accompanist for several years.
During his career he has performed as recitalist, orchestral pianist, “cocktail” pianist, keyboardist and guitarist for various rock bands, and pianist in an improvisational opera group. He has also worked at a recording studio in Boston. His orchestral works have been performed by Mystic Valley Chamber Orchestra, New Works Orchestra, and Symphony Pro Musica.
He continues his work as a Theory Instructor at NEC Prep, and his compositional activities.”
Curriculum Vitae
’75, ’80 MM, New England Conservatory