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UUSM - Music ProgramUUSM - Music - Steve Wight
 Steve Wight
Choir Director
Steve Wight attended California
Institute of the Arts on the James Irvine Foundation scholarship. While at CalArts,
he taught Counterpoint and 20th Century Compositional Techniques as a Graduate
Assistant. At the request of his teacher and mentor, Pulitzer Prize winning
composer Mel Powell, Mr. Wight was awarded the first accelerated granting of
a Master of Fine Arts Degree in the Institute’s history.
His work spans a wide range of musical styles and media. He has composed music
for television (including Saturday Night Live, The Man Show,
and Cartoon Funhouse), as well as for the concert hall (including Music
for Chamber Orchestra, Bagatelles for Piano Solo, Night Piece,
and A Cantata on Poems of James Joyce). He did the vocal and instrumental
arrangements for Johnny Guitar, which won the Outer Critics Circle
award for Best New Musical of 2004. For eight years he was an instructor at
Cypress College, overseeing the construction of their midi lab in the mid-1980s.
During his time at Cypress, he also served as Conductor and Music Director for
a number of productions, including West Side Story, The Wiz,
Camelot, and The Pajama Game.
His work as church Choir Director / Music Director spans more than 20 years,
including 12 years at Hollliston United Methodist Church in Pasadena. In his
current position as Music Director of the UU Community Church of Santa Monica,
he has led the choir in a wide range of repertoire, from Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart,
and Faure to Bob Dylan and Paul Simon. He frequently contributes compositions
and arrangements for Sunday services, Christmas Eve, the annual Children's Pageant,
and other church functions.
Mr. Wight has also produced, engineered, and mixed a wide range of recordings
over a span of 30 years. Recent projects include work with pianist Bryan Pezzone,
singer/songwriter Mica Lee Williams, and composer Martin Silvestri.
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