About Chloe DeSteno
Chloe DeSteno is a Boston-based composer and singer. Two of her most recent premieres include “The Sea-Shore,” an art song commissioned by The Rivers School Conservatory, and “O Vos Angeli,” which was premiered by Choral Chameleon in Manhattan after she was selected to attend their annual Institute for Composers this summer. She has worked with numerous ensembles and organizations including the Charlotte Chamber Choir, Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, the Worcester Chamber Music Society, the Crepusculum Choir, the Berklee Flute Society, and the Berklee/Boston Conservatory National Association of Teaching Singing. She has also premiered some of her own works including “Fairy Isle” at the Boston Marriott and “Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans” for voice and harp at the Old South Church using text from a chant by Hildegard von Bingen.
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In her early life, Chloe DeSteno studied at The Rivers School Conservatory where she earned a Young Artist’s Diploma and received departmental awards in composition and voice as well as the conservatory-wide Director’s Award. Participating in the Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young, she composed multiple works for invited ensembles every year during her studies. She received a commission to compose a viola duet for the chamber department, and two of her art songs were selected for an Emily Dickinson themed concert featuring works set to her poetry. In her senior year, she won the Young Composers Commission Award, for which she composed a duet for two pianos that was premiered the following spring. This past year, she graduated summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music, earning her B.M. in composition and vocal performance, and will begin her master’s degree in composition at New England Conservatory in the fall. She has studied composition under Dr. Stephen Halloran, Dr. Eleanor Aversa, Dr. Shawn Crouch, and Dr. Raphael Fusco.
At Berklee, Chloe DeSteno was a recipient of the World Tour Scholarship and the Amy Beach and Jim Reyes Departmental Scholarship Awards. Within her department, she was been chosen for an orchestral reading with the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, masterclasses with eminent composers Matthew Aucoin, Elainie Lillios, and Ellen Reid, and the NYC Industry Trip. Selected as president of the department’s composition club in fall 2023, The Society of Composers, she worked with her board members to bring in notable guest speakers for weekly meetings including Alexander Liebermann, Chris Frederick Bloquert, Reiko Füting, and Claudia Anderson. Coordinating and hosting multiple concerts of student work each semester at venues on campus and around Boston, they proudly premiered over one hundred member compositions during her time there. Actively performing as a singer, she has performed at multiple venues and festivals around Boston, and she has also worked as a vocal coach, arranger, transcriber, accompanist, and music director.