Steve Margoshes has composed and orchestrated for Broadway shows, symphony orchestras, pop music groups, and vocalists. He’s written a large body of vocal works and "pops" symphonic music that have been extensively recorded. His original score of FAME - THE MUSICAL has been performed in twelve languages on every continent. Most recently, Steve has composed the music for FAME FOREVER. The show premiered in Glasgow, Scotland recently.
Steve's orchestrations were featured in both the New York production, as well as the Jim Steinman/ Roman Polanski version, of DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES (Tanz Der Vampire). His other orchestrating credits include many of the major Broadway rock scores: TOMMY, AIDA, GREASE (the Tommy Tune revival), the Boy George musical TABOO, the Beach Boys' GOOD VIBRATIONS and BIG RIVER, еtс . Steve has received two Drama Desk Award for orchestrations.
Steve Margoshes has enjoyed a thirty-year association with Jim Steinman. Steve also plays solo piano and is writing orchestrations for “The Dream Engine,” a band that performs Steinman's music.
Margoshes has written literally hundreds of songs with James Rado and Gerome Ragni, the authors of HAIR. Together they wrote the outrageous musical SUN and the concert JACK SOUND AND HIS DOG STAR BLOWING HIS FINAL TRUMPET ON THE DAY OF DOOM.