Composer and Resident Conductor of the innovative Elgin, IL based Chamber Music on the Fox, Steven Vance Ingle has led recent performances of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat and Michael Daugherty’s Dead Elvis and has conducted CMOTF’s Crime Classics concerts featuring early radio plays by Bernard Herrmann. He conducted Daron Hagen’s vibrant film score Piano Concerto No. 2: Chaplin’s Tramp at the 2017 Elgin Short Film Festival before returning in 2018 to conduct his own score to Georges Méliès’s 1902 classic, Le Voyage dans la Lune.

Steve’s compositions REAPER! and Quiet, please!, multimedia homages to early fantasy and horror radio, were premiered by CMOTF and by Musicians for Michiana respectively, and his Air for Oboe and Piano and Facets: Subtle Variations for Trumpet and Piano were premiered at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Houghton, Michigan.

Steve has conducted on the Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra series and more recently led the South Bend Symphony Orchestra’s Young People’s Discovery Concerts in 2015 and 2016.

Steve’s highly dynamic and versatile career has also led him to perform as a bassoonist with many organizations. He is a former member of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and with the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Memphis, Knoxville and numerous others. In 2017, he performed as contrabassoonist for Joffrey Ballet’s production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet at Lincoln Center.

Steve has performed on Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess and Music in the Loft series, at venues including the Ravinia Festival’s Bennett Gordon Hall, and on live radio from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. In 2005, he was honored to perform under the direction of Pierre Boulez for Mr. Boulez’s Derive 2 for thirteen instruments at Chicago’s Harris Theater.

Steve is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and of the Eastman School of Music. He has served on the faculty at Valparaiso University and lives in South Bend with his wife, oboist Jennet Ingle, and their child, Ash.