Steven Epstein

For a period of more than 30 years, Steve has worked for CBS Records Masterworks/Sony Classical as well as other labels including Nonesuch, Columbia Records, RCA Red Seal, and PS Classics, and has produced an incredible array of artists and ensembles in the fields of classical, jazz, Broadway and film soundtracks.

These artists include: Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, Wynton Marsalis, (both classical and jazz), Midori, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, David Zinman, Erich Leinsdorf Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kurt Masur, Pinchas Zukerman, ltzhak Perlman, Michael Tilson Thomas, Raymond Leppard, Cho-liang Lin, Murray Perahia, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Tokyo Quartet, Emanuel Ax, Elly Ameling, Placido Domingo, Sylvia McNair, Renee Fleming, Andre Previn, Sarah Vaughan, Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin, John McGlaughlin, Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa Williams, James Taylor, Mark O’Connor, the Vienna, Berlin, New York, and London Philharmonic Orchestras, and also the Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, Concertgebouw, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and London Symphony Orchestras.

Eighteen albums produced by Steve have won Grammy Awards.

Steve, himself, has been honored to date with a total of thirteen Grammy Awards including six for Classical Producer of the Year as well as Grammys for Best Classical Crossover Album, Best Classical Album, Children’s Spoken Word Album, and Soundtrack Album, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He has also garnered a total of 28 Grammy nominations.

Other honors, for albums, which he has produced include the Edison and Grande Prix du Disc Awards, as well as four Gold records.

 

 

 

 

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The ceramics depicted here were made by David Ohannessian (1884-1953), who is conside red the father of Armenian pottery in Jerusalem. He was born in Kütahya, Turkey, where he and other Armenian artists practiced a tradition of ceramic making dating back to at least 1500. In 1919 he resettled in Jerusalem where he founded the Dome of the Rock tile workshop. David Ohannessian was Sato Moughalian’s grandfather.