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Steve Cohen is associate professor of clarinet at Northwestern University, where he is the co-coordinator of the winds and percussion program. Formerly, he was principal clarinetist and featured soloist with New Orleans Symphony, later known as Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Cohen joined the New Orleans Symphony in 1975 and became principal clarinet in 1983. He remained as principal clarinet with its successor, the Louisiana Philharmonic, through May of 2004. He was featured as concerto soloist with that orchestra many times and has also been featured as concerto soloist at the Brevard (North Carolina) Music Center, where he has played and continues to play principal clarinet each summer since 1979. He has toured in the U.S. as principal clarinet with the Texas Opera Theater and throughout Europe as principal clarinet with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. He has given solo recitals throughout the U.S., Europe and Korea, and appeared as a guest artist at the Seoul Philharmonic Clarinet Festival and Idaho/Montana Clarinet Symposium. He studied with Loren Kitt, Larry McDonald, Karl Leister, and Robert Marcellus. Cohen was formerly on the faculty at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Louisiana State University, Loyola (Louisiana) University, and Tulane University and has written articles for Clarinet magazine. Since moving to Chicago in 2005,Cohen has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Lyric Opera, Music of the Baroque Orchestra, and Ars Viva Symphony.