The Dearing Live performance Duo is honored to share that Steven Dearing has been featured in VoyageMichigan’s Day by day Inspiration collection, a long-form interview that seems within the publication’s Inspiring Tales part. The piece went reside on April 21, 2026, and is presently featured on the VoyageMichigan homepage.
The interview traces Steven’s path from a self-taught electrical guitarist at age 16 — by two years of chemistry research, a pivot to formal music training, and Grasp of Music work on full scholarship at Wayne State College — to the founding of the Dearing Live performance Duo with soprano and flutist Abha Dearing. The piece covers the Duo’s first recording with engineer Bruce Gigax in Cleveland, their excursions throughout america, United Kingdom, and Canada, and the 4 critically acclaimed albums that adopted.
Preserving classical music alive and thriving.
Steven Dearing, VoyageMichigan (April 2026)
Requested what he finds most rewarding, Steven pointed to 3 constants within the Dearings’ work: seeing college students progress, performing collectively as a married duo, and “doing music and music just for a dwelling.” That ethos — classical music as every day self-discipline and shared vocation — has formed the Duo’s 25+ years of live performance work, 500+ wedding ceremony ceremonies, six Detroit Music Awards, and their European live performance debut on the Cheltenham Worldwide Music Competition.
Learn the Full Interview
The entire interview — together with Steven and Abha’s story of assembly within the Wayne State College music division, Abha’s early performances at Hart Plaza Detroit festivals from age 5, and the story behind the Duo’s first album — is revealed on VoyageMichigan:
→ VoyageMichigan: Day by day Inspiration — Meet Steven Dearing
Our due to the VoyageMichigan editorial group for the considerate dialog and for that includes classical music within the Inspiring Tales Sequence. Further press protection — together with critiques from the Detroit Free Press, Windsor Star, Hour Detroit, Oakland Press, and WDET/NPR — is archived on our Press & Media Protection web page.
