Compositions
Steven has composed for ensembles of all sizes. Below is a list of compositions for Chamber Ensembles, Large Ensembles, and Keyboard.
Art Songs
- "All Our Stories," from Confluence (a collaboration with the Composers' Collective of Vancouver, BC, Voice, Flute, & Piano, 2012)
- American Fragments (from the poetry of Sandburg and Dickinson, for soprano & piano, 2016)
- An Hour is a Sea
- Under the Harvest Moon
- I am afraid to own a body
- Dying at my music!
- Two
- "Baltic Fog Notes" (poem by Carl Sandburg, for soprano & piano)
- "Black Riders" - 5 songs from the poetry of Stephen Crane (for voice and piano, 2019)
- Black riders
- Mystic shadow
- Three little birds
- Places among the stars
- I saw a man pursuing the horizon
- "Confessions" - 5 songs from the poetry of Amy Lowell and Walt Whitman (for Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano [3 songs], Baritone/Tenor [2 songs] & piano, 2018)
- Opal
- June
- Aubade
- To a Stranger
- Venus Transiens
- Five Children's Songs (for voice, piano, and plucked piano strings OR voice, piano, bongos, and glockenspiel, 2019)
- Twinkle, Twinkle
- Little Star
- Do you know?
- Jack fell down
- Are you sleeping, Frère Jacques?
- Five Norwegian Songs (for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, & Piano, 2010) -Recording-
- Five Sombre Songs (for Soprano & Piano, 2011) -Recording 1- -Recording 2-
- "Human Nature" (for soprano & piano, A collaboration with the poet Val Mallinson, 2017) -Recordings-
- Saltwater Heart
- Leave No Trace
- Way Finding
- I Call to the Earth and Sea -- Four Songs from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (for Soprano & Piano, 2013) -Recording 1- -Recording 2- -Recording 3-
- You Sea!
- Twenty-Eight
- Night
- Immortality
- "Nuit Blanche" - Three songs inspired by French poetry (for Soprano & Piano, 2018)
- The house should be full of roses
- Dance the Jig
- Nuit Blanche
- Obstfelder Songs - Four songs in Norwegian with poetry by Sigbjørn Obstfelder (for Soprano & Piano, 2018)
- Eva
- Kan Speilet Tale
- Regn
- Psalme
- "Resistance" - Five songs to poetry by Joanne Kennedy Frazer (for Soprano & Piano, 2018)
- Work
- Tweet, tweet, tweet
- Communion
- A would-be prophet
- Re-visioning
- Sandburg Songs (ongoing project, begun in 2016)
- "Sea Songs" (Five songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano, 2019) (Text by Fearnside, Jeffers, St. Vincent Millay, Teasdale, and Sandburg)
- On Christmas Eve
- Ebb-Tide
- Low Tide
- Peace
- Sea-Wash
- "Smoke and Steel" (Four songs with poetry by Carl Sandburg, for Soprano & piano)
- Prayers of Steel
- Monotone
- Stars, songs, faces
- Valley Song
- "Solveig's Song" (for Mezzo-Soprano & Piano, 2011)
- "Song Offerings" (five songs for unaccompanied treble voice with text by Rabindranath Tagore, 2020)
- Pilgrimage
- The Wall
- Sleep
- Night
- Light
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" (poem by Sara Teasdale, for Mezzo-Soprano & Piano, 2018)
- Three Biblical Songs (for Soprano & Piano, 2008) -Recording-
- Three Folk Songs of the Pacific Northwest (for voice & piano, 2016)
- Seattle Illahee
- The Girl with the Striped Stockings On
- The Old Settler
- Three Norwegian Songs (for Soprano & Piano, 2015)
- Holder du af mig
- Diset Kvæld
- Det første møde
- "We Wear the Mask" - Four songs from the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar (for Mezzo-Soprano & Piano, 2018)
- We Wear the Mask
- Theology
- Curtain
- In Summer
- Whitman Songs (ongoing project, begun in 2016)
Mixed Chamber Ensembles
- Canzonetta (for Viola and Bassoon, 2016)
- Ceremony (for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and French Horn, 2019)
- Four Dances (for Flute, Violin, Viola, & Piano, 2008) -Recording-
- Norwegian Rhapsody (for Violin, Viola, & Piano, 2020 - Commissioned by the National Nordic Museum)
- Remembrance (Trio for Oboe, Viola, & Piano, 2018) -Recording-
- Rite (for Flute, Viola, & Harp, 2011) -Recording-
Strings
- Dance for Viola and Piano (2015) -Recording-
- Elegy for String Sextet (2008) -Recording-
- Fantasy for Viola and Piano (2009) -Recording-
- Folk Dances for Solo Viola (2012)
- Intermezzo for Viola and Piano (2014) -Recording-
- Sacred Suite (for Viola and Piano, 2016) -Recording-
- String Quartet (2012)
Winds
- Brass Quartet (2011)
- Ceremony (for Flute, Alto Saxophone, and Horn, 2019) -Recording-
- Four Pieces (for Flute & Piano, 2009) -Recording-
- Five Impromptus (for Solo Flute, 2014)
- Melodious Fragments (for Oboe & Viola, 2017)
- Northwest Coast Pictures (for two Flutes, 2017)
- Prayer (for Flute & Piano, 2012) -Recording-
- Prelude (for Flute Choir, 2013) -Recording-
- Suite for Flute and Piano (2014) -Recording-
- Sax Quartet (2011)
- Sonata for Oboe and Piano (2016) -Recording-
- Wind Quintet (2010)
Handbells
- Campanile - Surround Sound Etude for Handbell or Handchime choir
- Introit & Prayer - "Many and Great, O God" (for 4 handbell ringers and piano, 2017)
- Lament (Commissioned by the ringers of Des Moines United Methodist Church, 2017)
- Prelude - Now the Green Blade Riseth (Commissioned by the ringers of Des Moines United Methodist Church, 2015)
- Winter Rose (for Handbell Soloist) (2016)
Large Ensemble Compositions
- Wind Ensemble
- Lament (2011) -Recording-
- March, Melody, & Jig (2006)
- Orchestra
- Dark Dances (2011)
Keyboard Music
- Air and Ground Dance for solo organ (2016) -Recording-
- Etude for solo harpsichord (2019)
- Meditations on American Hymn Tunes (2016)
- Over 80 pieces for solo piano
- Nocturne (2008) -Recording-
- Rhythmic Suite (2010)
- Suite of Primitive Dances (2007)
- Suite Parisienne (2008)