Steven Sherrill
Assistant Librarian

Steven Sherrill has been with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1987. At that time, he reorganized and modernized the orchestra's library and updated the filing system by being the first person to enter the music collection into a computerized database. He was the first at the ASO to use computerized music notation, having prepared several new editions, arrangements and transpositions for the orchestra.

Mr. Sherrill was the first librarian to establish a website dedicated to the interests of orchestra librarians and for over ten years has served as webmaster for the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association (MOLA). He was additionally the first to set up a website for the orchestral musicians of the Atlanta Symphony. He has recently produced a series of video tutorials on the operations and methods of orchestra librarians.

In his early career with the orchestra, he prepared music for the Robert Shaw Workshops at Carnegie Hall, and was one of two orchestra librarians serving at the 1996 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

He has served three music directors and he has contributed to the support and orientation of five assistant conductors at the ASO as well as numerous managers and instrumentalists of the orchestra. He has also served the ASO as Assistant Personnel Manager and Artist Assistant.

At Georgia State University, he presented a seminar sponsored by the American Music Center on the subject of music preparation and notation for composers. He has represented the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at seven conferences of the Major Orchestra Librarians' Association.

His early musical training was on piano and later, trombone and bass. He went on to get his undergraduate degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts in Trombone Performance. His graduate studies were in music theory at Georgia State University. Most of his early career was spent in the recording studio where he was a music copyist and orchestrator.

In addition to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera, the Fox Theater, and the Alliance Theater, Mr. Sherrill has written and prepared music for numerous musical organizations including orchestras, bands, chamber ensembles, and choruses across the U.S. and abroad. Having served twenty-one years at the ASO, he is the longest serving Assistant Librarian in ASO history.