•Tucker was the Principal Conductor for the Atlantic Union College Symphony Orchestra in So. Lancaster, Massachusetts, for the 2003/2004 school year.

• In the fall of 2002,Tucker was appointed Assistant Professor in music, teaching courses in Conducting, Orchestration, and Graduate Analysis, while continuing to lead the development of University Orchestra.

• In early 2000 Tucker traveled bi-monthly to Massachusetts to develop the Chamber Orchestra of the Thayer Conservatory, an organization which recently named him its Principal Conductor for the 2003/2004 season.

• While at UCLA, Tucker conducted the UCLA Philharmonia, the UCLA Opera orchestra, and in the spring of 2000, six public performances of UCLA's Musical Theater Workshop's production of 'Babes In Arms'.

• In the summer of 2000 Tucker returned to Budapest to again record with the HNPO.

• The University of California, Irvine (UCI) named Tucker its orchestral conductor for the 2000-2001 school year. This orchestra performs five to six concerts yearly, with a repeat of each concert, along with an opera production. The glamorous Irvine Barclay Theater (IBT) hosts several of the orchestra's concerts, while the remaining performances are housed in one of the school's two other concert venues, Winifred Smith Hall and the Claire Trevor Theater.

• Since his debut with the UCI Symphony, an all Beethoven concert, on November 17, 2000, in the Irvine Barclay Theater, Tucker has performed such masterpieces as Mahler's first Symphony, and Debussy's La Mer with that ensemble.

• In July 1999 Maestro Tucker returned to Europe to conduct the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra (HNPO) in Budapest, Hungary. Following his return from Hungary he spent two weeks conducting at the Arrowbear Music Camp. During the Symphonic session of this music camp, Tucker guided outstanding young musicians from all areas of the United States in daily rehearsals and weekly performances of works from the standard symphonic literature.

• In the fall of 1998 Tucker entered the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a graduate conducting student, on a full merit scholarship. At UCLA Tucker served as a Teaching Assistant (conductor) for Musical Theater Workshop under John Hall, at Opera UCLA under William Vendice, head of the LA Opera's Music Staff, and was mentored by Dr. Jon Robertson, chair of UCLA's Music Department, and head of Orchestral studies.

• In 1993, under StephenTucker's artistic direction, the Neumark Ensemble , a professional chamber orchestra, was formed in Inland Southern California. The ensemble, which boasts some forty instrumentalists and approximately twenty singers, performs a variety of traditional and contemporary music chosen predominantly from the Classical genre. The Neumark Ensemble was hailed by the Riverside Press Enterprise as ... "a new chapter in the cultural life of the community."

• As a composer and arranger, Tucker's main interests lie in the world of film scoring and recording. Having completed the musical score to the 1996 Sundance Film Festival entry, "LOCKED IN", Tucker continues to participate in recording projects, despite his busy conducting schedule.