Steven Radeck is a teacher, composer, and conductor of music. In addition, he is a versatile performer of classical, popular and ragtime music, and has appeared in countless concerts in the US and abroad.  

Among the foremost performers, historians and interpreters of ragtime music, Mr. Radeck has produced and headlined many ragtime festivals internationally. His close association with the legendary Eubie Blake climaxed with a performance at Eubie’s lOOth Birthday Party at the Shubert Theatre in New York.

Mr. Radeck has also produced, and performed in, a series of concerts with his friend and mentor Leo Smit. Their ‘The Masters Wrote Jazz’ concert series featured original arrangements from the Paul Whiteman Orchestra of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, as well as Mr. Radeck’s own arrangement of the Concerto in F, for symphonic winds.

As a pianist he has accompanied many celebrities, including the Mills Brothers, Bob Hope, Englebert Humperdinck, Redd Fox and Don Rickles. Mr. Radeck is also an accomplished organist and has served as music director at several churches in Buffalo, St. Louis and the New York City area.

In the academic facet of his career, Mr. Radeck was artist-in-residence and musical director of the Performing Arts Area at Washington University in St. Louis for seven years. He was also conductor and director of the vocal music program at New York’s Talent Unlimited Performing Arts High School for five years, and has held adjunct faculty positions at NYU and University College of St. Louis.

Mr. Radeck received his BA in music from Dartmouth College where he was founder of the Dartmouth College New Music Ensemble and the recipient of several awards, including a Senior Fellowship in Music. He received his Masters of Music from SUNY at Buffalo, where he worked with the eminent American composer Morton Feldman, as well as with Mr. Smit, a close associate of Stravinsky, Copland, and Bernstein.