Steven Zubich enjoys a dynamic musical career. He is an alumnus of the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minnesota. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in music with a minor in art history from the University of Minnesota-Duluth where he studied with Tracy Lipke-Perry and Alexander Chernyshev. At UMD, he received extensive musical training with supplemental coursework in collaborative piano, pedagogy, musicology, theory, and composition.
He was the winner of the Concerto and Aria competition and was awarded a Matinee Musicale scholarship. His studies continued at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he earned his Master’s of Music in Piano Performance. He studied under the tutelage of Venezuelan concert pianists Elena Abend and Judith Jaimes.
Zubich’s vocations include performing, composing, teaching, and administration. His incidental compositions have been performed with theatrical companies such as Phantom Chorus, Lakeshore abd Wayward Theater. He is a faculty member at MacPhail Center for Music and the Saint Paul Conservatory. From 2017 through 2024, Zubich managed the Northern Lights Music Festival in his Minnesota homeland. He has organized over 150 classical music performances throughout the Iron Range since his tenure with NLMF.