biography
Steve Yépez is an active freelance flutist in Chicago. Being part of a city with such a vast variety in culture, Mr. Yépez gets to experience a wide range of styles and experiences through music and events. As an orchestral player, Mr. Yépez has enjoyed playing with groups such as the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra and Orbert Davis, the Chicago Summer Opera Theater, Chicago Arts Orchestra, Orchestra NOVA, the Chicago Metropolitan Orchestra and the Lira Ensemble of Chicago. In Los Angeles, he performed with the West Los Angeles Symphony, Burbank Philharmonic, Antelope Valley Symphony and Beach Cities Symphony Orchestra.
Performances
2014 to Present Chicago Summer Opera Orchestra, principal flute 2016 to Present Chicago Arts Orchestra, principal flute, second, picc. 2009 to Present Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, principal flute
2023 Northbrook Symphony, principal flute
2023 Oistrach Symphony of Chicago, principal flute 2008 to Present Yepez Players/Primavera Players, principal musician 2008 to Present Edgewater Ensemble (Wind Quintet)
2014 to Present NMS Faculty Chamber Music
2006 to 2010 Lakeshore Symphony
2001 to 2007 Idyllwild Summer Fest Orchestra, principal flute 2007 West L.A. Symphony Orchestra, piccolo
2007 Burbank Philharmonic, second flute
2007 Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra, second flute 2004 to 2006 DePaul Chamber and Symphonic Ensembles
2006 Lira Ensemble, second flute
curriculum vitae & repertoire
Mr. Yépez is on faculty at New Music School in Chicago’s Gold Coast.
Mr. Yépez holds a Master of Music Degree from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Music Degree from California State University, Northridge. He has studied with Mary Stolper of the Grant Park Symphony, Catharine Ransom Karoly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Sandy Kipp Iles of California State University, Northridge.
Opera Repetoire, principal flute
Mozart: Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, Marriage of Figaro, La
Clemenza di Tito
Bizet: Carmen
Puccini: Suor Angelica, La Rondine
Britten: Albert Herring, Turn of the Screw, Midsummer Night’s Dream
Massenet: Cendrillon
Menotti: The Medium
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Ward: The Crucible
Sullivan: The Mikado