Zohn, Steven

steven zohn

Steven Zohn plays historical flutes with ensembles across the eastern United States, and is co-director of the Philadelphia Bach Collective and Night Music, which performs late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works on period instruments. Among his recordings on the Acis, Avie, Centaur, Chandos, and Newport Classic labels are premieres of instrumental and vocal works by Telemann.

He has taught for The Juilliard School’s graduate program in historical performance and for Amherst Early Music, and his contributions to the study and performance of early music have been recognized by the American Musicological Society with its Noah Greenberg Award. Also a musicologist, Steven’s writings focus on the Bach family, improvisatory music in the nineteenth century, the history of banquet music, and the life and works of Telemann, including the books Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann’s Instrumental Works (2008), The Telemann Compendium (2020), and Telemann Studies (2022). In 2022, he was the first American recipient of the prestigious Georg Philipp Telemann Prize from the city of Magdeburg (the composer’s birthplace). He is Associate Dean and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music Studies at Temple University.