Roger Steptoe

Four Shakespeare Sonnets for baritone and string orchestra was composed to celebrate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth in 2014. For more than 40 years I have enthusiastically compos...

Four Shakespeare Sonnets for baritone and string orchestra was composed to celebrate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth in 2014. For more than 40 years I have enthusiastically compos...

Four Shakespeare Sonnets for baritone and string orchestra was composed to commemorate the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth in 2014. For more than 40 years, I have enthusiastically com...

Written for the Anglo-American trumpeter, Graham Ashton, and American organist, Christopher Jacobson, it was first performed in Washington National Cathedral, USA, on January 25th, 2009 as part of the...

Written for the Anglo-American trumpeter, Graham Ashton, and American organist, Christopher Jacobson, it was first performed in Washington National Cathedral, USA, on January 25th, 2009 as part of the...

The Toccata is composed in one movement. Written specially for Michael Matthes' CD 'XXème' (20th [Century]). The virtuosic and animated work alternates fanfares, trills and rythmically-played passages...

The Toccata is composed in one movement. Written specially for Michael Matthes' CD 'XXème' (20th [Century]). The virtuosic and animated work alternates fanfares, trills and rythmically-played passages...

Although the 'ripieno' and 'concertante' elements are played equally by each of the five instruments in turn, this fast, virtuosic and pithy work is essentially a mini-concerto for brass quintet. Cast...

Since 1977, when my Suite for Violoncello alone was awarded the BBC Young Composers' Prize, my passion for string instruments, their subtle sound and expressive possibilities, as well as the refined a...