Steve Dummer

Photo credit: Sandrine Brossard

Steve Dummer is a conductor, clarinettist, educator and all-round enthusiast for participation in music-making at every level. 

As well as conductor of Ensemble Reza’s Community Orchestra, he is musical director of Kidenza, a critically acclaimed professional orchestra giving concerts for children around the UK, founder and director of Talkestra, which tries to reach new audiences for concert music, conductor of Horsham Symphony Orchestra, musical director of CoMA Sussex, a regular tutor and conductor at Dartington International Summer School, director of the Junior Course of the European Youth Summer Music and founder of Stane Street Sinfonietta, is a professional orchestra of musicians living in the South East of England, formed in collaboration with the composer John Woolrich.

As a clarinettist, Steve performs regularly throughout the UK and abroad, and records for television and film. He’s performed world premieres written for him by composers including Patrick Harrex and first UK performances of music by composers including Gerald Busby, Derek Bermel and Paul Lewis. His recently recorded CD of the complete clarinet music by John Hawkins, including the Clarinet Concerto with Stane Street Sinfonietta and conductor Holly Mathieson, and the Clarinet Sonata with Yoko Ono, was given a five-star review by MusicWeb International. 

He was a member of Juan Martin’s Flamenco Group featuring on the much-admired CD ‘Musica Alhambra’, a founder member of the zany jazz band Itchy Feet and now plays piano, clarinet, saxophone, melodica, rubber bread stick and composes and undertakes balloon modelling for the great Speakeasy Revival Orchestra. 

Steve has performed with Ensemble Reza for many years and loves them all very much!