STEVE WALLACE is an award-winning singer and composer from Chicago IL. He is a member of Theater Now’s Writer’s Lab and most recently the winner of “The Harrington Award” for creativity as a composer with  BMI’s Lehman Engel Workshop for composers and lyricists. His professional expertise incorporates a plethora of genres and styles from Soul, Hip Hop, Blues, and Classical and in the span of his career, Mr. Wallace has produced, performed and written on hundreds of albums. He has, and continues to compose scores for television and film including networks such as MTV, BET, NBC, and his score for the film Four Seasons won the award for best musical score at the 2021 Diversity at Cannes film showcase. Steve also created an arrangement of Lift Every Voice and Sing for the NAACP, worked with Sony Music, The Universal Music Group, and he was the producer, composer and arranger for the song for the theme of the United Nations’s “Humanitarian Day” Be A Humanitarian that was also in the running for a Grammy Award. Mr. Wallace premiered his chamber opera based on a song by the rapper, Nas called Undying Love this past November at the Kehrein Center in Chicago to great acclaim and the music from the opera was highlighted on Classical WFMT in February of 2022. Steve Wallace has written a book of 14 art songs, 2 symphonies, 4 operas, a variety of chamber works and 4 musicals, of which the animated musical Humpty’s Hatching Day was a REMI award winner at The WorldFest Houston Film Festival. The groundbreaking R&B Opera/film musical Hal King that Mr. Wallace created, composed, and produced was released on Feb 9th 2021, distributed by Gravitas Ventures and was a nominee for “Best Diaspora Feature” at the African Movie Academy Awards 2021 in Lagos Nigeria. Find him on IG @stevewstudio1 or visit www.stevewallacemusic.com