Stephen Benson is very active on the New York City freelance scene. He is comfortable in a variety of musical settings from jazz and classical music to rock, blues, rhythm and blues, Broadway, bluegrass, and klezmer music. He has performed and or recorded with people as diverse as Phoebe Snow, John Sebastian, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Natalie Cole, Harry Connick Jr., Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, Jane Krakowski, Sutton Foster, Garrison Keillor, The New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Lukes and the American Symphony Orchestra. He has most recently performed on Broadway in the orchestra pits of The Lion King, Chicago, Aladdin, Violet, Fiddler on the Roof and On Your Feet. He is on the jazz faculty at Montclair State University and lives in NYC with his wife and twins.