Steve Ingle is Instructor of Bassoon at Valparaiso University and Concordia University, River Forest.  He is a former contrabassoonist of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and can be heard on recent OSO recordings of Shostakovich, Benjamin Lees, and Michael Daugherty.  As a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Mr. Ingle performed with many of the world's leading conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, and Pinchas Zukerman.  An extensive freelance career has led him to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee's Skylight Opera Theater, the University of Chicago's Contemporary Chamber Players, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and many others.  With the Spoleto-USA Festival Orchestra, Mr. Ingle participated in the American premiere of Kurt Weill's Die Burgschaft, a recording of which is available on EMI-Classics.  In 2002, while on tour with the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, Mr. Ingle was heard on live radio from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.  He has performed in studio sessions for television and has taught and performed at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Houghton, Michigan, since 1998.  He was a founding member of the Barossa Quintet, appearing on the Dame Myra Hess and Music in the Loft series and at the Ravinia Festival's Bennet-Gordon Hall.  From 1999-2002, he worked with the Barossa Quintet, in conjunction with the International Music Foundation and the Ravinia Festival, to produce educational programs in Chicago public schools.

Mr. Ingle has also been active as a conductor, specializing in new music, and has led premiere performances of works by Timothy Dwight Edwards, Michelle McQuade, Frederick Gifford, and Dana McCormick at venues including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the Hot House-Center for International Performance and Exhibition.  He has conducted music by Toru Takemitsu at the University of Chicago, and music by Gloria Coates on a 1998 Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra program featuring new music by female composers.  He has also led members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in performances at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and at Symphony Center and has been a guest conductor of the North Park University Symphony Orchestra.  Mr. Ingle is a former Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Suburban Youth Symphony Orchestra in Homewood, Illinois.  He recently conducted the Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio at the First Congregational Church, LaGrange, Illinois. Mr. Ingle holds degrees from the University of Tennessee and the Eastman School of Music, where he was also awarded a Performer's Certificate in 1996.

Office: VUCA B533
Tel: (219) 464-6791
Email: stevenvingle@gmail.com

Return to Music Faculty Index Page | Department of Music Home Page