Steve Amerson has established a reputation as an excellent tenor with a vocal flexibility that allows him to feel at home in both popular/contemporary music and classical literature. With the wealth and depth of his performance experience, radio personality, Rick Dees has dubbed Steve as America’s Tenor.
Steve has been a featured soloist with virtually every major performing organization in Southern California and has made numerous appearances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Hollywood Bowl. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the Los Angeles master Chorale under the direction of Roger Wagner, the Long Beach Symphony, The William Hall Chorale, The Orange County Master Chorale, The Ojai Festival, and the Mozart Festival in San Luis Obispo. He has also been a guest soloist with numerous orchestras across the United States. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in April of 2006 singing in the premiere of Missa Americana by Ed Lojeski.
Steve was one of three tenors chosen to record demonstration tapes used by Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras in preparation for select “The 3 Tenors” performances including their 1994 Dodger Stadium concert, 1998 Paris concert and 2002 Yokohama, Japan concert.
Presently, much of Steve’s time is dedicated in presenting concerts based on his Front Row Center project, which is a collection of inspiring songs from the Broadway stage and screen.
Along with his concert singing schedule (which includes 50-60 sacred concerts), Steve does studio singing for various recording projects, movies, commercials and television shows. His voice can be heard on over 140 feature films.
Projects on which Steve’s voice is heard include King Kong, Fantastic Four, XXX, Men In Black II, Jurassic Park 3, Sum of All Fears, Scorpion King, A.I., John Q., Touched By An Angel, Contact, Men In Black, Wild Wild West, Anastasia, Amistad, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones; Temple of Doom, Hunt For Red October, Joe vs. the Volcano, Glory, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, Hercules, Far And Away, Hook, Man Trouble, Batman Returns, the Abyss, Three Musketeers, Picket Fences, Cheers, Suddenly Susan, Nothing Sacred, Hooperman, Highway To Heaven, Designing Women, St. Elsewhere, The Flintstones, The Santa Clause, The 1990 & 1991 Academy Awards Shows and commercials for IBM, Honda, Lexus, Nissan, Toyota, the Marines, Lea & Perrins, Perkins Restaurants, Isuzu, U. S. Sprint, Kibbles & Bits, Texaco, Ford Trucks, Coco's Restaurants, Diet Coke and Delta Air Lines.
Steve and Kristine have been married for 28 years and have two children, Matthew (age 19) and Katherine (age 15). They live in Granada Hills, California.
