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, he 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. His piano trio, ‘Music for Lancaster’ premiered with the Amael Trio in 2009 at the Festival Forfest in the Czech Republic. 

Steven formed the group, Duo Mento, with his sister Loretta to perform four-hand piano literature. Together, they have performed the world premiere of ‘Dies Irae’ for two pianos on October 23, 2008 at Merkin Hall in New York. They have also performed at Bosendorfer Hall in the Mozarthaus in August 2023 as part of the Golden Key Festival in Vienna, Austria.