Selected recordings
Music to
bring home.
Explore Alki’s recordings—from the American songbook to original compositions and meditative soundscapes.
The stories behind the music
About the CDs.
AS. IS.
A live solo concert recorded in the autumn of 2007 on a gorgeous Steinway “D” concert grand in a stone church in Vermont. A magic evening of jazz standards, improvs à la Keith Jarrett, and my own compositions.
PHILATELY
An eclectic collection of my songs, recorded with musicians of the Miami Sound Machine and many other fine players. There’s jazz, pop, Latin, a bit of everything; all the influences of my life in music come home in the writing and making of this CD.
MUSIC FOR SENTIENT BEINGS
A meditative ambient collection of pieces intended to smooth the wrinkles from the cares of the world. This CD also features world musician Jorge Alfano on ethnic flutes such as the shakuhachi, bansuri, and caña.
STARDUST MEMORIES
The music of Hoagy Carmichael—songs such as “Georgia,” “Stardust,” and “The Nearness of You”—classics from the Great American Songbook.
A life in music
Broadway to
the world.
Alki’s career crosses the borders between music, theatre, and story. He conducted on Broadway and off-Broadway, served as associate conductor and pianist for A Chorus Line, and toured nationally with Five Guys Named Moe.
His work has reached Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, the Lucerne Festival, La MaMa, and stages across Europe and Africa. His arrangements and orchestrations can be heard in projects for the Muppets, DreamWorks, LucasArts, Pixar, and the Oscar-winning Zootopia.
Read the full biographyThose Were the Days
Ira Gershwin centennial tribute
Featured soloist
Arrangements heard in Zootopia
Biography
A remarkable life
in the arts.
Conductor, composer, pianist, arranger, musical director, performer and storyteller—Alki Steriopoulos has built a career across Broadway, concert halls, recording studios and stages around the world.
Alki’s extensive theatre résumé includes conducting Those Were the Days on Broadway and On Second Avenue off-Broadway. He musically directed Gifts of the Magi at the Lambs’, The Little Prince starring Tony-winner Daisy Egan at the John Houseman, and the 25th Anniversary production of Jacques Brel at the Village Gate. Other New York credits include playing keyboards for Tommy, Once on This Island, and Catskills on Broadway. Alki served as Associate Conductor and pianist for A Chorus Line, and conducted and played the first national tour of Five Guys Named Moe. He also musically directed Joel Grey in his solo portrayal of his father, Mickey Katz, at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and conducted two-time Tony nominee Bruce Adler in concert.
Alki served as Assistant Musical Director for Carnegie Hall’s 100th Anniversary Tribute to Ira Gershwin, a star-studded concert presented on PBS’s Great Performances.
As composer-in-residence at the world-renowned La MaMa theatre, he collaborated frequently with Tom O’Horgan—director of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar—on shows, workshops and concert retrospectives. He musically directed and supervised the multi-celebrity benefit A Call for Bread at Madison Square Garden. He founded and led the popular New York Latin-jazz band Zig-Zag, and represented the United States on a two-month goodwill tour of Mozambique and South Africa with the Friends Across Borders Project.
As a performer, Alki recreates the songbooks of Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington and Hoagy Carmichael. He has appeared in concert with cellist Eugene Friesen of the Paul Winter Consort and with Rock & Roll Hall of Famers The Band. His performances in Portugal with Filantropia culminated in sharing the bill with Brazilian superstar Milton Nascimento. He recorded with legendary singer-songwriter Richie Havens and was a featured soloist multiple times at the prestigious Lucerne Festival’s Off-Stage Piano in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Alki has recorded and arranged for the Muppets, Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Interactive, George Lucas’s LucasArts and Pixar, while assisting and collaborating with Grammy-, Emmy- and Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino. His arrangements and orchestrations can be heard in Zootopia, the 2017 Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature.
His recordings include Philately, showcasing his songs and music with musicians from the Miami Sound Machine and Latin-jazz Grammy winner Nestor Torres; Music for Sentient Beings, a meditative ambient work featuring acclaimed world musician Jorge Alfano on ethnic flutes; and As. Is., a live solo concert recording reminiscent of Keith Jarrett’s famed Köln Concert.
Alki has published the novel The Man Who Came Late to His Own Funeral and numerous short stories. His one-man show, Time 7:53, an exploration of time in word and song, premiered at NEYT in October 2001. In October 2014, Alki’s musical 21—the story of baseball legend and hero Roberto Clemente—received its world premiere at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
Book, music & lyrics
21 — The Musical
The story of Roberto Clemente
Written and composed by Alki Steriopoulos, 21 received its world premiere at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 2014, honoring the life, legacy, and humanity of a baseball legend.
Production inquiries
The novelist
Stories with
music in them.
“As a writer, I wish to be read. As a musician and composer, I wish to be heard.”
Alki is the author of The Man Who Came Late to His Own Funeral, as well as numerous short stories and the creative journal I Am Alki.
Watch & listen
At the piano.
