Steven Alcon Wyrick is a composer and tenor/bass trombonist who has collaborated with renowned performers and conductors through music.

            Steven has received several honors and awards, including the Randolph S. and Amalie Rothschild Scholarship and the Gustav Klemm Prize in Composition at the Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, and has worked in a range of ensembles as a classical and jazz trombonist. They have performed gigs and concerts with artists such as Carla Cook and Peter Norton, and have played under the batons of masterful conductors such as William Wiedrich, Joseph Young, Harlan D. Parker, Sean Jones, Dave Rivello, and Maria Schneider. They have been composing since they were a child, choosing to focus on composition when they were 16 and attending the School for Performing and Creative Arts in Cincinnati.

            Attending the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp on a scholarship, Steven had the honor of having their orchestral work Pride and Dignity read by the World Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jung-Ho Pak, for which they won a Fine Arts Award. Steven continued to work with talented artists throughout their undergraduate education at Peabody Conservatory – in 2018, they collaborated with film director Shiyu Wang to score Gleaming, her thesis film at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Later that year, they had their string quartet Winter in Ohio read by the renowned ETHEL quartet.

           From Fall 2021 to Spring 2023, Steven attended graduate school at the Eastman School of Music, studying film music and contemporary media under the tutelage of Jeff Beal, Mark Watters, Dave Rivello, and Rob LaVaque. After graduating, Steven was one of three students in the program selected to take up a one-year residence in a house, owned by Jeff and Joan Beal, in Agoura Hills, California, where Steven is currently living and working.

           At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steven began creating virtual performances of their works with the help of musicians from the MBEIQ Collective (Music, but Everybody Is Quarantined), a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering performer and composer output even when musicians cannot meet in person like they were once able to. In September 2020, they became the collective’s artistic director, and to this day is ensuring the success of the artists who work in this organization and community.