Matthew Wadsworth has commissioned a Theorbo Concerto from Steve through the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the North York Moors Festival. Performances are taking place in Summer 2018 in Hong Kong, the UK, and a tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The SCO recorded the concert on 31st July for CD release later in the year.

The Flower of Cities was commissioned by John Williams for the 50th Anniversary of the City of London Festival. The recording features John Williams and Craig Ogden – guitars, Max Baillee – violin, Laurence Ungless – double bass, and Timothy Evans – percussion. Thomas Carroll was conducting and the recording was engineered and produced by Stewart French.

Commissioned through Jamie Nix and Andrew Zohn at CSU, Georgia, this concerto for guitar and wind orchestra is funded by a consortium of 13 wind orchestras form across the USA. The first performance took place in Columbus, Georgia on 28th September 2017. Subsequent performances by the other members of the consortium take place throughout the 2017/18 season.

Xavier Jara is performing Labyrinth in his touring programme for the Guitar Foundation of America. Performances take place across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, including a recital at Carnegie Hall, New York, in April.

Cinema Paradiso was commissioned by Guitar CoOp for Zoran Dukić, who gave the first performance at the Koblenz International Guitar Festival on 3rd June 2017. The piece is based on films by Quentin Tarantino, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier, Francois Truffaut, and Charlie Chaplin.

Invisible Cities is a double concerto for violin, guitar, strings and percussion, based on Italo Calvino’s eponymous novel. It was commissioned by Nicolo Spera with funds from the University of Colorado. The premiere took place on 22nd April at the Macky Auditorium, Boulder, CO with the Boulder Philharmonic conducted by Michael Butterman, joined by soloists Nicolo Spera and Charles Wehtherbee.

On 20th March 2017, Artyom Dervoed gave the premiere of ‘Carnival of Venice’ (2017), for guitar and orchestra, at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. The Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Mikhail Agrest.

Steve has recently completed a solo work for the theorbo player Matthew Wadsworth. The Miller’s Tale, based on Chaucer, was commissioned by John Williams after working with Steve and Matthew on a project at the Globe Theatre. Matthew has recorded the piece on his new album Late Night Lute. The premiere took place at Wigmore Hall in London on 6th March 2017. The performance was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

Ian Bostridge and Xuefei Yang’s recording of The Book of Songs has received excellent reviews in The Financial Times, Gramophone Magazine and BBC Music Magazine (where it received 5 Stars for both performance and recording). The CD ‘Songs from our Ancestors’ was the first to be released on the new Globe Music label.

This Spring sees the release of four new CDs featuring Steve’s Music. Rui Mourinho will be launching Stephen Goss Guitar Works Volume 1 on 25th February in Albufeira, Portugal. Late Night Lute which features Steve’s solo theorbo piece The Miller’s Tale will be launched at Wigmore Hall on 6th March. John Williams and Friends are soon to release The Flower of Cities, and Edelton Golden and Adelia Issa will shortly launch their recording of Songs of Ophelia.

Last September, Steve’s new Paganini Concerto for guitar and orchestra, received its premiere at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. The Russian National Orchestra were conducted by Mikhail Pletnev and the soloist was Artyom Dervoed (who commissioned the work). The work was broadcast live on national radio and filmed for TV broadcast. The film of the complete performance can now be seen here.

Guitarist John Williams has recorded Steve’s Guitar Concerto with Paul Daniel conducting The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The CD was released in the summer of 2014 and is now available on iTunes, Spotify and Naxos online. John Williams’s tour of the concerto with the RPO culminated in a sell-out performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Graham Roberts commissioned the piece and gave the first performance with the RPO in February 2012. The full score and the piano reduction were published in April 2015 by Doberman.

Steve’s Piano Concerto was commissioned by SW Mitchell Capital in 2013 for the French pianist Emmanuel Despax. The concerto was inspired by the designs of the Thomas Heatherwick Studio in London. It was recorded by the Orpheus Sinfonia conducted by Thomas Carroll. The CD is now available from Amazon, Spotify, iTunes and the Naxos Music Library.