Dr. Steven Errante
Conductor, Wilmington Symphony Orchestra

Steven Errante has been Conductor of the Wilmington Symphony and a member of the UNCW Department of Music faculty since 1986. He is also founding conductor of the Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra and the accompanist for the Girls’ Choir of Wilmington. Dr. Errante has degrees from the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School and has previously taught at the University of Michigan, Northern Michigan University, and the University of Richmond. He has also been active as a composer and arranger: his Battleship North Carolina March has been performed throughout the region by the North Carolina Symphony, and many of the guest artists performing jazz and popular music with the Wilmington Symphony have been backed up by his arrangements.

Errante’s approach to music centers on his belief that performance and education enhance each other, so in addition to his teaching at UNCW, he gives presentations in area schools, organizations, and before each concert in which he illuminates the music being heard. His comments and musical illustrations can also be heard in the form of audio blogs on the WSO website and on the Wilmington Symphony Facebook page. He lives in Wilmington with his wife Sandy, who is the founder and director of the Girls’ Choir of Wilmington and owner of Kindermusik with Sandy Errante. Their daughters Emmy and Casey are in college.

Listen to Dr. Errante's composition Battleship North Carolina March :