Steven Blier is the co-founder and artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, and has served as programmer/translator/pianist/arranger of more than 130 of its programs.He has been a recital collaborator with some of the great singers of our time.Steven has recorded on the Koch, New World, Nonesuch, Albany, RCA, and Musicmasters labels and he won a Grammy Award in 1990.  He was nominated for Grammy Awards in 1999 and 1989.  He has given master classes around the U.S. in song repertoire, and had been a feature writer for Opera News magazine. He has been guest faculty/recitalist at the Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Chautauqua Festival, and San Francisco Opera, and was a faculty member at the State University of New and Aspen Music Festival. He holds a BA degree from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.