Steven Mead

Mead has played an important role in achieving worldwide recognition of the instrument.Roy Newsome, The Modern Brass Band: From the 1930s to the New Millennium, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=O6-iHNQwga8C&pg=PA338&dq=%22Steven+Mead%22+euphonium&sig=ACfU3U0H0yiDfU1-jDURPV30MjJ6CAJelQ#PPA252,M1 252]. {{ISBN|0-7546-0717-8}}.Peter Spaull, [http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0300whatson/1000classicalmusic/2003/03/28/blowing-in-the-wind-my-friends-50020-12785153/ "Blowing in the wind my friends"], Liverpool Daily Post, March 28, 2003. Accessed 10 September 2008.Martin Stote, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021114706/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60545729.html "Euphonium euphoria as BBC makes ban U-turn"], Birmingham Post, March 25, 1999. Accessed via subscription 10 September 2008. He has played solo concertos with many symphony orchestras, including: the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Helsinki Philharmonic, Capella Cracoviensis, the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and the Japan Chamber Orchestra. He has premiered works by Martin Ellerby, Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen, Vladimir Cosma, Goff Richards, John Reeman, Rolf Rudin and Philip Sparke, amongst others. Goff Richards' Pilatus, Aagaard-Nilsen's Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra, Reeman's Sonata for Euphonium and Ellerby's Euphonium Concerto were all written expressly for Mead.[http://www.torsteinaagaardnilsen.no/music/concerto_for_euphonium_and_orchestra.html Notes on Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} on the official web site of Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen.Lloyd Bone, Eric Paull, R. Winston Morris, Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire: The Euphonium Source Book, Indiana University Press, 2007, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=y7UWPZNqmXYC&pg=PA60&vq=%22written+for+Steven+Mead%22&dq=%22Mead,+Steven%22+euphonium&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U0dZJ1g0PMqopn-TuThJ04P1gmf2g#PPA60,M1 60] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=y7UWPZNqmXYC&pg=PA60&vq=%22written+for+Steven+Mead%22&dq=%22Mead,+Steven%22+euphonium&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U0dZJ1g0PMqopn-TuThJ04P1gmf2g#PPA132,M1 132]. {{ISBN|0-253-34811-0}}Roy Newsome, The Modern Brass Band: From the 1930s to the New Millennium, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=O6-iHNQwga8C&pg=PA338&dq=%22Steven+Mead%22+euphonium&sig=ACfU3U0H0yiDfU1-jDURPV30MjJ6CAJelQ#PPA367,M1 367].

He is married to Misa Mead ({{née}} Akahoshi) who is also a renowned euphonium soloist, additionally active as a freelance composer and orchestrator.{{Cite web|author=Denis Wick Products |title=Misa Mead |date=14 February 2019 |url=https://www.deniswick.com/artist/misa-mead}}

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• Joseph Horovitz: Four Concertos

:Ensemble: Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Soloists: Andrew Haveron (violin), Steven Mead (euphonium), David Owen Norris (piano); Conductor Joseph Horovitz; Label: Dutton Epoch.

• Concertino

:Ensemble: The Lillestrøm Musikkorps; Soloist: Steven Mead (euphonium); Conductor Gert Buitenhuis; Label: Polyphonic.

• Euphonium Virtuoso

:Ensemble: Brass Band Buizingen; Soloist: Steven Mead (euphonium); Conductor: Luc Vertommen; Label: Bocchino.

• Dreamscapes: Wind Music by Ellerby, Clarke & Josephs

:Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra; Soloist: Steven Mead (euphonium); Conductor: James Gourlay; Label: Polyphonic.

• Audacious

:Soloist: Steven Mead; Accompanied by Tomoko Sawano, piano; Label: Bocchino.

• Fandango, released 1 June 2011; Accompanied by Tomoko Sawano, piano; Label: Bocchino.

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{{Eau Claire'', January 25, 2001. Accessed 10 September 2008.

• Ronald Holz, [https://web.archive.org/web/20061128192645/http://www.nabbabridge.org/bridge/bridge_101_2006_10_low.pdf Review: Euphonium Virtuoso (Bocchino CD BOCC107)], The Brass Band Bridge, North American Brass Band Association, Issue 101, October 2006. pp. 21–22. Accessed 10 September 2008.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120216152612/http://www.besson.com/en/artists.php?mode=artistPresentation&aid=95&referer=P2FjdGlvbj1zZWFyY2gmY2lkPTkmYXJ0aXN0X25hbWU9bWVhZA== Steven Mead biography] on the Besson company web site. Accessed 10 September 2008.

• {{Official website|http://www.euphonium.net|Steven Mead's official website}}
• [http://euphonium.net/videos.php Video] of a live unedited performance, most of the third movement of the Hallows Concerto (Rolf Rudin) in a performance given by Steven at The Capitol Theatre, Offenbach, on Sunday 15 March 2009, with the Neue Philharmonie Orchestra, conductor Roland Böer

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