Claudia Stevens creates unique and complex interdisciplinary pieces, now a body of a dozen original plays, for her solo performance as musician-actor. Her most recent published works encompass topics including artistic hubris and responsibility; science, gender and religion; hate crimes and reconciliation. Earlier work draws from literature, history, hidden family past, and issues of identity. She also has become a recognized thinker and speaker about ethics and the arts.

Trained as a pianist, musicologist, conductor and composer Claudia holds degrees in music from Vassar College (summa cum laude), the University of California at Berkeley and the Doctor of Musical Arts in piano from Boston University.  Her academic positions include Williams College and the College of William and Mary, where she is Assoc. Prof. of  Music (currently on leave).  As a composers’ pianist in the 1980’s she was associated with Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, presenting their works and those of emerging younger composers at Carnegie Recital Hall (sponsored by the New York Composers’ Forum) and other leading venues, and was the featured artist on several “Performance Today” on NPR broadcasts. Many works she commissioned have been published.  The Aaron Copland House in New York and several other libraries now house collections devoted to her projects in new music advocacy.