Steve Warner

Bio

Steve Warner is a Catholic composer, the founder and long-time director of the Notre Dame Folk Choir, founder of the Newman Vocare Ensemble and associate director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre in Dublin, Ireland. He has a B.A. in religious studies from St. Michael's College and an M.A. in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Steve joined Notre Dame’s campus ministry staff in 1979, where he worked for more than 35 years. By 2016, the Folk Choir, begun in 1980, had more than 60 singers and instrumentalists, their repertoire spanning all styles and languages. There are about 100 octavos available from "Songs of the Notre Dame Folk Choir," published by the World Publications of Chicago, Illinois. The Mass of Charity and Love and Mass for Our Lady became nationally published settings for the Eucharist.

In 2016, Steve became associate director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason at St. John Henry Newman’s University Church in Dublin, Ireland. The choir he founded, the Newman Vocare Ensemble, released their first album with GIA Publications in 2020. Upon his departure from Ireland in 2021, a former chorister stepped forward and created an endowment in the liturgical arts, naming it after Steve. Most recently, he completed The Passion According to Saint John, a musical setting for the Good Friday liturgy published by OCP, and is working with several archdioceses as a liturgical consultant.