When Ouma se Slim Kind director, Gustav Kuhn, identified the song as being a perfect fit for the film, he approached Lucas Maree to rework it for a modern audience. The song has since become a well-loved Afrikaans classic Kinders van die Wind was written by the late Koos du Plessis in 1967, but only became a hit when Laurika Rauch recorded it for the hit television series, Phoenix en Kie in 1979. Popular singer/songwriter Lucas Maree has given the song a new lease on life. This is almost three decades after the song became a hit in South Africa. Steve is the Past-President of the North American Saxophone Alliance.Kinders van die Wind has been recorded for the upcoming Afrikaans-language film, Ouma se Slim Kind. Steve’s teachers have included Eugene Rousseau, Joseph Wytko, David Baker, Larry Teal, Daniel Deffayet, Jean-Yves Formeau, and Leroy Wolter. Steve teamed up with pianist Inara Zandmane and saxophonist Susan Fancher to produce the critically acclaimed recording Louder than Words – music for two saxophones and piano. Together they have performed throughout the Netherlands, the US and on Dutch radio. In 2000, he won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with accordion virtuoso Otine van Erp. He has been the principle saxophonist for the Eastern Music Festival and the Greensboro Symphony for the past ten years. As a soloist, Steve has appeared with the Eastern Music Festival and more recently with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference. He has been on the UNCG faculty since 1999. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University, Middlebury College, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. After living in the Netherlands for almost eight years he returned to Indiana University and was awarded a DMA in Saxophone in 2001. Before beginning a Master’s degree in saxophone and chamber music at Arizona State University, Steve spent a year in Paris studying at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale Superior de Musique de Paris) and the Conservatoire de le Région de Paris, where he was awarded the Prix d’Or à l’Unanimité in Saxophone Performance. Originally from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he received his Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Indiana University. Steve Stusek, saxophone, is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he is a member of the Eastwind Quintette d’Anches and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet.
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