Steven Mento received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Delaware, studying applied piano with Leon Bates. After piano study with Annie Petit of The Curtis Institute, he enrolled in a Masters program at Temple University and worked with Harvey Wedeen in piano pedagogy. Steven Mento completed doctoral studies in piano performance at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Mento has performed in various locations in the United States and in Vienna, Austria, and has performed often at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 2003 Steven Mento composed and performed ‘Elegy’, for piano and orchestra, commissioned by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, and ‘Algonquian Dreamcatcher’ for the Bay-Atlantic Symphony in March of 2016.