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St. Louis Jesuits

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The St. Louis Jesuits are a group of Catholic composers who composed music for worship most often in a folk music style of church music in their compositions and recordings, mainly from their heyday in the 1970s through the mid-1980s. Made up of Jesuit scholastics at St. Louis University, the group initially used acoustic guitars and contemporary-style melodies and rhythms to set biblical and other religious texts to music sung in English in response to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. John Kavanaugh, also a Jesuit and composer, never worked with the group; however, a few of his compositions were included in the first collection, “Neither Silver Nor Gold,” which was produced before the original members decided to further collaborate and record together. History Some of the music was recorded in the basement of Fusz Memorial Chapel, the rest at a local studio. After the groundswell of interest in their music and liturgies, this first collection of 58 songs, some dating back as early as 1964, was called Neither Silver nor Gold and included music by Bob Dufford, S.J., John Foley, S.J., Tim Manion, and Dan Schutte. The original purpose of the recording was only to

Ståle Kleiberg

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Ståle Kleiberg (born 8 March 1958) is a contemporary classical composer and musicologist from Norway. Biography Kleiberg was born in Stavanger in 1958. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in musicology and later from the Norwegian Academy of Music with a diploma degree in composition. In addition he has studied in England. Kleiberg has worked as a composer since 1981 when he received his first commission. He was appointed associate professor at the department of music at the University of Trondheim in 1986, and professor of music at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2008. Works Kleiberg’s output ranges from chamber music to works for full orchestra; a number of these are the result of commissions from leading orchestras and ensembles. Kleiberg’s works are often to be found on concert programmes. His ‘Dopo’ for cello and string orchestra was included on the TrondheimSoloist’s recent tour of England. In the British journal ‘Tempo’ this work is described as having ‘…made a deep and lasting impression’ and that ‘Kleiberg weaves an angry expressionistic line of immense power and virtuosity’. Among his works for full orchestra is the sympho

Stan LePard

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Stanley James LePard (August 10, 1956 – February 11, 2021) was an American composer, orchestrator and sound designer. He is best known for his work on the Halo and Destiny game series, as well as Guild Wars 2. In addition to games, he has also composed music and designed sounds for numerous Microsoft software products, including Encarta and Windows. Early life LePard was born in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He composed piano ragtimes for his assignments in music theory classes. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition at Eastern Washington University, as well as a master’s degree in Music Education at University of North Texas. Career Starting from 1980, LePard composed for TV shows and films. One of his first projects was composing the theme song for Vintage Video Jukebox, a music video show which played soundies from the 1930s to the 1950s. During the late 1980s, LePard was part of the new wave band Secret Cinema as a keyboardist and saxophone player. He was also part of industrial band Steel Porn Rhino along with Jerry Schroeder, a fellow composer and sound designer whom he continued to collaborate with on later projects. Around 1994, LePard started a long working relationsh

Stanislao Gastaldon

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Martino Stanislao Luigi Gastaldon (8 April 18616 March 1939) was an Italian composer, primarily of salon songs for solo voice and piano. However, he also composed instrumental music, two choral works, and four operas. Today, he is remembered almost exclusively for his 1881 song “Musica proibita” (“Forbidden Music”), still one of the most popular pieces of music in Italy. Gastaldon also wrote the lyrics for some of his songs, including “Musica proibita”, under the pseudonym Flick-Flock. He was born in Turin and after a peripatetic childhood studied music there and in Florence. By 1900, he had settled permanently in Florence, where he died at the age of 77. In his later years, he also worked as a voice teacher, music critic, and art dealer. Life and career Gastaldon was born in Turin on 8 April 1861 to Luigi Gastaldon and Luigia Grazioli. His father was an engineer from Lerino, a village near Torri di Quartesolo in the Veneto region of Italy. His mother was a Roman noblewoman who had married a wealthy landowner, Count Bernardo Genardini, at the age of 16. She met Luigi Gastaldon in 1854 when she was 23 and shortly thereafter abandoned her husband and four children to live with him. T

Stanislao Mattei

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Stanislao Mattei, O.F.M. Conv. (10 February 1750, in Bologna – 17 May 1825, in Bologna), was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who was a noted composer, musicologist, and music teacher of his era. Life Mattei was born in Bologna, then part of the Papal States, to a family of artisans. At the local Church of St. Francis, he became a pupil of the famed musician, Friar Giovanni Battista Martini, O.F.M. Conv., a member of the Franciscan community attached to the church. He also followed Martini’s example and entered the Conventual Franciscans. Following his period of novitiate, he was named his mentor’s assistant and substitute conductor of the famed girls choir at the church and succeeded him in that position upon his death in 1784. Mattei continued as choir director at the Church of St. Francis until 1809. He then moved briefly to Padua, where he served in that function for the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua, operated by his religious Order. This situation was temporary, however as he soon returned to Bologna, where he became the music director at the Church of St. Petronius. During the occupation of Italy by the French Revolutionary Army, the friary was suppressed and the c

Stanislav Binički

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Stanislav Binički (, ; 27 July 1872 – 15 February 1942) was a Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue. A student of German composer Josef Rheinberger, he became the first director of the Opera Sector of the National Theatre in Belgrade in 1889 and began working with the Belgrade Military Orchestra a decade later. He composed the first Serbian opera, At Dawn (), in 1903. In 1911, Binički established the second Serbian Music School. He joined the Serbian Army following the outbreak of World War I and composed one of his most famous works, March on the Drina, following the Serbian victory at the Battle of Cer. He retired as head of the Opera Sector of the National Theatre in 1920 and died in Belgrade in 1942. He is considered one of the leading Serbian composers of the Generation of the 1870s. Life and career Stanislav Binički was born on 27 July 1872 in the village of Jasika, near Kruševac, Principality of Serbia. He studied in Belgrade and Munich with German composer Josef Rheinberger. Binički became the first director of the Opera Sector of the National Theatre in Belgrade in 1889. In 1899, he began collaborating with the Belgrade Military Orchestra. He enriched the orchestra’s

Stanislav Lyudkevych

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Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych (, , ; 24 January 1879 – 10 September 1979 ) was a Ukrainian and Soviet composer, theorist, teacher and musical activist. He was a People’s Artist of the USSR (1969) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1979). Biography Lyudkevych was born in 1879 in Jarosław, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). From 1897 to 1901 Lyudkevych studied philosophy at Lviv University. During this time he also studied on his own at the Conservatory of Galician Music Society in Lviv under Mieczysław Sołtys. Starting in 1901, Lyudkevych worked as a teacher in Lviv and Przemyśl. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology in Vienna in 1908, learning from O. Tsemlinsky and H. Hredener. and from 1919, teacher of theoretical disciplines and inspector of legal entities. He worked with the choirs Boyan, Bandurist, Surma. In 1936, Lyudkevych became head of the musicological commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. From 1939 until 1972, he was a professor in the institute named after Mykola Lysenko. He died on September 10, 1979, in Lviv, aged 100. * 1949 – Order of the Red Banner of Labour * Lviv Art College is named after S. Ludkevych as well as streets in Lviv, Stryi, Pustomyty and

Stanisław Moniuszko

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Stanisław Moniuszko (; May 5 (17), 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, He is generally referred to as “the father of Polish national opera”. Since the 1990s, Stanisław Moniuszko has been recognized in Belarus as an important figure to Belarusian culture as well. Life Moniuszko was born into a noble landowning family in Ubiel, Minsk Governorate (Russian Empire, now Belarus). His father, Czesław, and his uncle, Ignacy, both served in Napoleon’s army. His first piano teacher was his mother, Elżbieta (Elizabeth) Madżarska of Armenian descent. He later continued his musical education in Warsaw and Minsk, and studied under Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen in Berlin. In 1840, he married Aleksandra Mueller, with whom he had ten children, and settled down in Vilnius, taking up the position of organist at the Church of St. John’s. Moniuszko also offered private music lessons, which turned out to be an important source of income for his family. His first operettas Loteria (Lottery) and Żółta szlafmyca (Yellow Nightcap) were not very successful. However, in 1847, the premiere staging of Halka (the two-act version), considered one of his most notable operas, was more successful. It took place

Stanisław Wiechowicz

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Stanisław Wiechowicz (; 27 November 1893 – 12 May 1963) was a Polish composer, music conductor, music educator and music critic. Biography Stanisław Wiechowicz was born in Kroszyce, near Kielce, Poland. He studied organ at the Conservatory of Music in Kraków and composition at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze near Dresden. He continued his studies at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, but his education was interrupted by military service. After demobilization, he worked from 1921 to 1939 as a music teacher and choral conductor in Poznań. From 1926 to 1927 he continued his musical studies at Schola Cantorum in Paris. From 1920 to 1926 and from 1930 to 1939, he was a professor at the Conservatory in Poznań. After 1945, Wiechowicz held the Composition Chair at the State Higher School of Music (now the Academy of Music) in Kraków. Wiechowicz authored a number of works on vocal pedagogy, and wrote for publications including Przegląd Muzyczny and Muzyka Polska. He received a number of composition prizes, and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in 1952. His work was also part of the music event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Wiechowicz married Valenti

Stanley Bate

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Stanley Bate (12 December 1911 – 19 October 1959) was an English composer and pianist. Education and early career Bate was born at Milehouse in the County Borough of Devonport, and received his first musical education from local teachers. He took to the piano early and by the age of 12 had secured a post as organist at Herbert Street Methodist Church in Devonport. His first opera, The Forest Enchanted, was completed in 1928 when he was 17, and produced locally with Bate conducting. Winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, he studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin. Compositions from this time include the String Quartet No 1 (1936) and the Symphony No 1 in E, which was first performed at the College in 1936. Bate also began writing incidental music for theatre director Michel Saint-Denis (including productions of Twelfth Night and The Cherry Orchard) and produced two ballet scores - Perseus for Les Trois Arts and Cap Over Mill, for Ballet Rambert. Marriage and wartime travel While at the College Bate met Australian-born fellow student and composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Although Bate was openly homosexual they married in 1938

Stanley Black

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Stanley Black (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist. He wrote and arranged many film scores, recording prolifically for the Decca label (including their subsidiaries London and Phase 4). Beginning with jazz collaborations with American musicians such as Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter during the 1930s, Black moved into arranging and recording in the Latin American music style, and also won awards for his classical conducting. Life and career Black was born as Solomon Schwartz on 14 June 1913 in Whitechapel, England. He began piano lessons at the age of seven and trained in piano and composition under Rae Robertson at the Matthay School of Music. He was aged only 12 when his first classical composition was broadcast on BBC Radio. His first professional job was for a C.B. Cochran 1930 theatrical revue followed by winning a Melody Maker competition for his arrangement of a jazz chorus the next year. In the early 1930s, he was employed in dance bands, and had worked with Howard Jacobs, Joe Orlando, Lew Stone, Maurice Winnick and Teddy Joyce by the time he joined Harry Roy in 1936. Black later presented his own programmes

Stanley Clarke

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Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold status. Clarke is the recipient of five Grammy Awards, with 15 nominations, three as a solo artist, one with the Stanley Clarke Band, and one with Return to Forever. Clarke was selected to become a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship. A Stanley Clarke electric bass is permanently on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. His mother sang opera around the house, belonged to a church choir, and encouraged him to study music. He started on accordion, then tried violin. But he felt awkward holding such a small instrument in his big hands when he was twelve years old and over six feet tall. No one wanted the acoustic bass in the corner, so he picked it up. He took lessons on the double bass at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, studying classical bass for five

Stanley Hawley

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Harry Stanley Hawley (17 May 1867 – 13 June 1916) was an English pianist and a composer who specialised in recitation melodramas for speaker and piano. Education Hawley was born at 61 South Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the son of a butcher, who died before his son’s first birthday. Stanley won a scholarship to attend Derby Grammar School. At the age of 15 he was appointed organist at the Independent Chapel in Pimlico, Ilkeston. In 1883 he began studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, supported by a further scholarship. His teachers there included Arthur O’Leary and Ebenezer Prout. Performer and composer Hawley rapidly established himself as an accompanist and soloist, making his debut at the St James’s Hall in 1887. According to Eric Coates Grieg, during one of his visits to London in the late 1880s, heard the student Hawley play his Piano Concerto and praised his performance, though the facts and exact date of this often repeated anecdote have since been disputed. In 1890 he was the first to receive the medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and in the same year he performed for Queen Victoria at Osborne House (her summer residence) on the Isle of Wight. He perfor

Stanley Hollingsworth

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Stanley Walker Hollingsworth (August 27, 1924, Berkeley, California – October 29, 2003, Rocklin, California) was an American composer and teacher. He was a student of composer Darius Milhaud from 1944–46, and of Gian Carlo Menotti from 1948–50. As a composer he is probably best known for his operatic trilogy of children’s stories: “The Mother”, “The Selfish Giant”, and “Harrison Loved his Umbrella”. Life and career Hollingsworth was conversant in all the vocal and instrumental forms, examples of which are his “Five Songs” (1960) for solo voice and piano, “Death Be Not Proud” (1978) for mixed chorus and piano or orchestra, Sonata for Oboe (1949), and his Concerto for Piano (1980). A notable success was achieved with his opera “La Grande Breteche” when it was commissioned for broadcast by the NBC Opera Theatre in 1957. Hollingsworth was also honored with the Rome Prize (1958), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1958), and residencies at the Montalvo Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo Arts Colony, Wolf Trap, and the Ossaba Island Project. He received commissions from the Curtis Institute, Fedora Horowitz, Meadowbrook Music festival, and the National Endowment for the Arts. H

Stanley R. Avery

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Stanley R. Avery (1879 – September 17, 1967) was an American composer, choirmaster, and organist at St. Mark’s Church for 40 years. He was a member of the first class to register at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, in 1921. In Minneapolis, he was a member of the faculty of MacPhail School of Music from 1919 to 1966, and the director of music at Blake School for Boys (1934–43) and at the Hennepin County Library Minneapolis Central Library Special Collections department which also has biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, obituary, and scrapbooks. External links *Hennepin County Library Special Collections Personal Archives References *

Stanley Vann

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William Stanley Vann Hon FTCL FRCO ARCM (15 February 1910 – 27 March 2010) was an English composer, organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer, primarily in the Anglican cathedral tradition. Early life Born in Leicester, he started to learn the piano around the age of six. He turned to the organ in 1927, achieving his ARCM, ARCO and FRCO diplomas by 1930. The start of a musical career 1931 saw his appointment as Assistant Organist at Leicester Cathedral, whilst still a pupil under the organist George Charles Gray. This was followed by his becoming the Organist at Gainsborough Parish Church in 1933, and then a move to Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa to be Organist in 1939. Whilst in Leamington he founded the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and (in 1940) the Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra. https://wso.org.uk/ His time at Leamington was interrupted between 1942 and 1946 by service in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. After his initial service, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 17 December 1943, later rising to the rank of captain. In 1949 he was appointed as Organist of Chelmsford Cathedral and Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at Trinity College

Stanley Wilson (composer)

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Stanley Wilson (November 25, 1917 – July 12, 1970) was an American musical conductor, arranger and film composer. Wilson was one of the most prolific collaborators in the Hollywood music industry for more than three decades. The creator of original themes and incidental music for several TV series, he also composed, arranged, or orchestrated more than 100 films. Wilson is considered “truly outstanding and most deservedly well loved of all the music directors”. Early life Stanley James Wilson was born on November 25, 1917, in Long Beach, New York, the youngest of Regina (née Reiman) and Philip Wilson’s four children: Nancy, Ruth, Mitchell, Stanley. Wilson’s father had emigrated from Russia, his mother emigrated from Vienna, Austria. Wilson’s parents had a brief career in the Yiddish Shakespeare Theatre. Wilson had his first trumpet recital at the age of five and was a trumpet player in a police band at 7. Republic Studios Wilson wrote scores for countless B-movies and serials for the next twelve years. While at Republic, he provided the music support for classic serials as King of the Rocket Men and Zombies of the Stratosphere, as well in exciting adventures featuring western heroes

Stanley Zabka

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Stanley William Zabka (November 6, 1924 – October 7, 2023) was an American songwriter, filmmaker, and television director, most notably working on NBC’s The Tonight Show and The Doctors. Early life Born in Des Moines, Iowa, as the sixth of eleven children, Zabka’s parents had owned and operated an opera house in Omaha when first married, directing and starring in productions. Zabka returned to military service in Europe during the Korean War. During this time, Zabka’s song, “Christmas Eve in My Home Town”, was recorded by Eddie Fisher in 1954 in a version made exclusively for military personnel, rather than commercial distribution. After the Korean War, Zabka toured with a travelling orchestra for three months before returning to NBC in an associate director position. In 1966, a version of “Christmas Eve in My Home Town” recorded by Kate Smith and published by Zabka through his Big Island Music label was sent by Zabka to 800 Armed Forces Network stations. On television, Zabka worked on the daytime series The Doctors, which received an Emmy Award during his tenure there. Personal life Zabka and his wife, Nancy, married on August 2, 1964, and had a daughter and two sons, including ac

Stasys Šimkus

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Stasys Šimkus (23 January 1887, Motiškiai, now in Jurbarkas district municipality, Russian Empire – 15 October 1943, Kaunas, Reichskommissariat Ostland) was a Lithuanian composer. Šimkus studied in Vilnius and Warsaw and later became the pupil of Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov, Jāzeps Vītols, and Maximilian Steinberg. After visiting the United States, he went to Leipzig for further studies with Paul Graener and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. A national Romantic, Šimkus helped resurrect the Lithuanian cultural organization Daina in 1916. In 1923, he opened a private music school in Klaipėda, which was soon converted into the national Lithuanian Conservatory (now called the Klaipėda Stasys Šimkus Conservatoire). He was a professor of composition at the Conservatoire from 1931 to 1937 and also conducted the State Opera at Kaunas. Šimkus composed several operas, a cantata, a symphonic poem, a piano suite, a ballade, choral works, lieder, and church music. He composed the music for Lietuvininkai we are born by Georg Sauerwein. His son Algis Šimkus also became a renowned conductor but in Canada instead of Jamaica, pianist, and composer. A group of cultural operators in Klaipėda, led by Vytautas Blū

Stavros Xarchakos

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Stavros Xarchakos (Greek: Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος ; born 14 March 1939) is a Greek composer and conductor. Internationally he is known as the composer for the Rembetiko film score, composing the music for the Werner Herzog film Signs Of Life, and composing the music for the 1983 BBC TV mini series, The Dark Side of the Sun. Biography Stavros Xarchakos was born in Athens, where he studied at the Athens Conservatoire. He has family origins from the Mani Peninsula. He emerged in the Greek music scene around 1963, composing music for the theatre and cinema. Among his collaborators was lyricist Lefteris Papadopoulos and singer Nikos Xylouris. In 1967, he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger. He stayed in Paris for four years, and then studied with David Diamond at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He served as director of the National Orchestra of Greek Music. He was later involved in politics and was elected Member of the Greek Parliament twice, before becoming a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2000 to 2004. He was again a candidate for the European Parliament with New Democracy, in the elections of 25 May 2014, but was not elected. References External links * *

Stefan Bolesław Poradowski

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Stefan Bolesław Poradowski (16 August 1902 – 9 July 1967) was a Polish composer. Life Poradowski was born on 16 August 1902 in Włocławek. He received his musical education in Włocławek at P. Bojakowskiego, then at the Conservatory of Music in Bydgoszcz Winterfeld. From 1922 to 1926 he studied in Poznań at the National Conservatory of Music where he studied composition and theory (Henryk Opieński) and the University (the right and musicology). Complementary studies in composition took place in Berlin with Emil Reznicek. He worked as a teacher of violin playing and lecturing on theoretical subjects in Poznań and Leszno, and in 1930 he became professor of theory and composition, as well as a special chamber orchestra director in the Poznań Conservatory. Before the war, he also lectured at the Municipal Conservatory of Music in Bydgoszcz (1935–1939), conducted the chamber orchestra and choir of the Society of Music “Harmony” in Poznań (1930–1939) and operated recenzencką. In 1939, he was arrested by the Germans and then taken to Opatów, Poland, where he worked as an organist and choral conductor. In 1945, he again taught a special class of theory and composition at the State Music Acad

Stefan Eichinger

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Since 1994 Stef Lopazz, also known as LOPAZZ, has been part of the Heidelberg based HD800 team; he also runs the multimedia label 800achtspur, and is renowned as a film composer and Mix-Mastering-Engineer, having written, produced and engineered many internationally acclaimed records and films. In 2001, he had success with Redagain P when they remixed the Miami Vice & Magnum, P.I. themes; then, in 2003, Lopazz’s self-titled EP was released by Output Recordings, followed by the singles ‘Blood’ (including a Tiefschwarz remix) and his first bona fide club hit ‘I Need Ya’ (later relicensed by French fashion label Colette). Its success led to Lopazz remixing Germany’s biggest pop act Xavier Naidoo, while techno legend Sven Väth snapped up ‘I Need Ya’ for his Sound of the Fourth Season mix CD. Stefan’s relationship with Berlin-based Get Physical Music began when he was commissioned to remix Chelonis R. Jones’ ‘I Don’t Know’. The label went on to issue Lopazz’s own vocal track ‘Migracion’, which was subsequently remixed by Chilean producers Luciano and Ricardo Villalobos. Releases for Pokerflat, Cocoon and Compost Black Label followed, along with remixes and productions for the likes of I

Stefan Hakenberg

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Stefan Hakenberg is a composer. He was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and currently lives in Juneau, Alaska. Reviewers have praised his music as “highly original,” “dramatic and memorable,” “creating strong musical expressions in a densely contrapuntal style.” The integration of players of non-Western classical background has particularly shaped Hakenberg’s creative thought. His work is an ongoing reflection on musical styles of today that he finds along an international career path that has taken him from Cologne in the 80s to Boston in the 90s to Seoul at the turn of the millennium. Stefan Hakenberg counts Hans Werner Henze, Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky and Oliver Knussen amongst his teachers. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Stefan Hakenberg, together with his wife, kayagum player Jocelyn Clark, founded the Alaskan contemporary music organization “CrossSound,” which won an ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming, and received an NEA Creativity Grant for a program including Hakenberg’s pansori “Klanott and the Land Otter People.” Works * Klanott and the Land Otter People a Southeast Alaskan p’ansori,

Stefan Hertrich

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Stefan Andreas Hertrich is a German vocalist for the band Shiva in Exile and formerly of Darkseed, Betray My Secrets and SpiRitual. The band is quoted as a “new age/oriental/gothic project” and was formed by Hertrich in 2003. The same year, Ethnic, Shiva in Exile’s debut album, was released by Canadian label Trostlos Records. In 2004, the album won the Just Plain Folks Music Award in the category “Best New Age/World Album 2004”. Since 2011, Hertrich is mainly occupied with writing spiritual audio books. Darkseed Hertrich first started his music career as the lead vocalist of the band Darkseed. Darkseed is a German gothic metal band formed in 1992. Darkseed, beginning as a death metal band, took a more unconventional song writing method that aimed more towards the gothic experimental route. Hertrich left Darkseed in 2006 to pursue his own projects. Shiva in Exile Hertrich has stated that the band’s name conveys a spiritual view about the world. He has stated that its meaning intends the world lacks a spiritual point-of-view or morale and that “Shiva” or “Spirituality” is in Exile. However; he has also stated that the name “is a bit too negative” and has noticed more people integrati

Stefan Lano

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Stefan Lano (born 1952) is a composer and music director, currently serving as the music and artistic director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Uruguay. He previously served an extensive career with the Vienna State Opera. Early life and education Lano was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1952 and is of Albanian descent. He attended Worcester Academy, graduating in 1970. He studied Biology and Composition at Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music before attending Harvard University on a full fellowship, where he gained a PhD in Musical Composition. The 1976 premier of his Sinfonie N° 1 afforded him his initial experience in the symphonic genre, both as composer and conductor at the Newport Music Festival. During his time in Berlin, he continued piano studies as well as conducting under Professor Hans Martin Rabenstein. It was during this period that he composed his Sinfonie N° 2 (Grodek) before assuming a position as pianist at the opera house in Graz, Austria. Symphony career In 1982, he worked under Lorin Maazel as répétiteur at the Vienna State Opera, a position which he held until his appointment by Maazel as Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony fro

Ștefan Neaga

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Ștefan Neaga (7 December 1900 – 30 May 1951) was a Moldovan and Soviet composer. He was the son of the Moldovan “Lăutar” folk musician Timofei Neaga. Biography From an early age he was a pianist in his father’s orchestra. At the age of 18, he graduated with high distinction the School of Music in Chișinău in the class of piano of the prominent teacher and pianist from Odesa Iuliu Guz. By that time he met the Romanian virtuoso Grigoraș Dinicu who invited him in his ensemble as a concert pianist, accompagnateur and arranger. In 1920 he entered the class of piano at the National University of Music Bucharest. He did not finish his course in composition due to his concert tours as a virtuoso pianist whose repertoire included works of Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, R. Strauss, etc. In 1926 he entered again the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine arts in the class of composition of Dimitrie Cuclin. There he was absorbed by the enthusiasm of composing, and, after graduating the Academy (in 1931), he decided to go to Paris where he met again Grigoraș Dinicu. There he was advised to enter École Normale de Musique de Paris in the class of composition of Nadia Bou

Stefan Nilsson (composer)

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Stefan Nilsson (27 July 1955 – 25 May 2023) was a Swedish composer and pianist who wrote music for feature films and television shows, including Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror and The Best Intentions, as well as Kay Pollak’s As It Is in Heaven. Born in Kukasjärvi, Hietaniemi, in the north of Sweden, Nilsson studied music at Framnäs folkhögskola outside of Piteå., where he developed an interest in jazz. At that time, he formed the progressive jazz group Kornet which also, among others, featured Örjan Fahlström, another prolific jazz musician, arranger and composer. The group existed until the late 1970s, and released three albums. Simultaneously, Nilsson continued to study music at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 1975–1977. As a film composer, Nilsson wrote numerous scores for Swedish filmmakers such as Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson and Peter Dalle. To international audiences, he is best known for his music for the films of Bille August, for whom he scored Pelle the Conqueror (1987), The Best Intentions (1991), Jerusalem (1996) and A Song for Martin (2001). In Sweden, due to the success of the film in the domestic box office and the hit song he wrote for it to lyrics by Py

Stefan Wolpe

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Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902 – 4 April 1972) was a German-born American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists’ Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He lived and worked in Berlin (1902–1933) until the Nazi seizure of power forced him to move first to Vienna (1933–34) and Jerusalem (1934–38) before settling in New York City (1938–72). In works such as Battle Piece (1942/1947) and “In a State of Flight” in Enactments for Three Pianos (1953), he responded self-consciously to the circumstances of his uprooted life, a theme he also explored extensively in voluminous diaries, correspondence, and lectures. His densely eclectic music absorbed ideas and idioms from diverse artistic milieus, including post-tonality, bebop, and Arab classical musics. Life Wolpe was born in Berlin to Jewish parents. He attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory from the age of fourteen, and for one semester the State Academic College of Music in Berlin (currently: Berlin University of the Arts). He studied composition unde

Stefania Zaranek

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Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek (23 September 190417 January 1972) was a Soviet composer, pianist, and artistic director. Zaranek studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with M. Steinberg and Samariy Savshinsky. After graduating in 1926, she taught piano at the Conservatory and the Worker’s High School. From 1942 to 1944 she was the artistic director of the Gorky Philharmonia. Life Stefania Anatolyevna Zaranek was born on 23 September 1904 in Kotelnich, Russian Empire. Zaranek studied at the Leningrad Conservatory with M. Steinberg and Samariy Savshinsky. * Cinq Miniatures, Opus 4 Theatre * music for over 20 plays Vocal * Fizkulturnaya (L. Rakovsky; 1934) * Four Song Dances: Polonaise, Mazurka, Krakoviak, Gopak (M. Shiffman; 1955) * Iz Dnevnika Shkolnitsy Song Cycle (E. Aplaksina and A. Churkin; 1948) * Pesnya O Narodnom Kitaye (I. Lukovski; 1950) * Pesnya O Vietname (I. Lukovski; 1950) * U Ryazanskikh Prichalov (L. Khaustov; 1950) * Za mir I Svobady Song Cycle (B. Rayevsky, B. Kezhun and B. Khanchev; 1950) References

Stefano Bernardi

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Stefano (or Steffano) Bernardi (18 March 1580 – 15 February 1637), also known as “il Moretto”, was an Italian priest, composer and music theorist. Born in Verona and maestro di cappella at the Verona Cathedral from 1611 to 1622, he later moved to Salzburg, where he was responsible for the music at the Salzburg Cathedral and composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs performed at the cathedral’s consecration in 1628. Bernardi’s career spanned the transition from late Renaissance music to early Baroque, with some of his works in the polyphonic style of Palestrina and others in the new stile concertato. He composed both sacred and secular music, including several masses and motets as well as sinfonias and three books of madrigals. He also wrote a treatise on counterpoint published in 1615. Biography Bernardi was born in Verona and educated at the Scuola Accolitale (Acolyte College) attached to the Verona Cathedral, where he also sang in the choir under Ippolito Baccusi. In 1622 Bernardi left Verona to take up a post as Director of Court Music to Archduke Carl Joseph, Bishop of Breslau and Brixen. Following the Archduke’s death in 1624, Bernardi settled in Salzburg, where he was to become the Di

Stefano D'Amico

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Stefano D’Amico (born February 3, 1996, in Turin) is an Italian composer. He composes film music and neoclassical music. Early life and studies At the age of 6 he moved to Cisternino, a small town in Apulia by the sea. He started studying piano when he was 11 and only a year later he entered ‘N. Rota’ Conservatoire, in Monopoli. He continued his studies with Francesco Buccarella. Some months later he wrote his first piano composition ‘Ora che noi’, which was performed at the year-end show and much appreciated. He then wrote other melodies which made him known to other musicians. In 2011 he became the keyboardist of an Apulian band with which he started to perform live and won a competition for new groups. Stefano is trained in film music, having graduated in Film and Game Scoring at Film Scoring Academy of Europe, an academy founded by Andy Hill. In 2023, he received a scholarship from composer Jan Andrzej Paweł Kaczmarek to pursue advanced studies always at the Film Scoring Academy of Europe. In 2024, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media. As he declared, James Newton Howard, Max Richter and Philip Glass have been his biggest in

Stefano Fabri

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Stefano Fabri (c. 1560 – 1609, or Fabbri, Stefano Fab(b)ri senior) was an Italian composer, organist and furthermore he was known to play the trombone. He succeeded Ruggiero Giovanelli as maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Family and background He was born in Orvieto as the son of the flemish musician Franceso Fabri, who also had been his first teacher of music. His son Stefano Fabri jr. had been the teacher of Francesco Beretta - also a director of music at the Vatican. Biography His career began at the cathedral of his birth place in Orvieto. First he was a singer but he also played the organ and the trombone later on. In 1599 he left his position in Orvieto to succeed Ruggiero Giovanelli He kept this employment until 1601. 1601-1607 he worked at the Lateran and then he advanced to be the director of music at S. Loreto. Besides his function also a director of music at the Vatican, the Lateran and S. Loreto, where he stayed until the end of his life, he also composed for S. Luigi dei Francesi and S. Maria Maggiore. His burial place is near to S. Loreto. Works He was well-known as a capable couterpointist. He composed antiphones (Codice n.

Stefano Fabri jr.

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Stefano Fabri junior (born c. 1606 in Rome; died 27 August 1658 in Rome) was the son of Stefano Fab(b)ri (1560–1609), who was the Kapellmeister of the Cappella Giulia. He was the pupil of Giovanni Bernardino Nanino. and the music teacher of Francesco Beretta. Biography He was the director of music at the Seminario Romano (1638-1639) and following until 1644 at S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini. A compilation of several compositions (Florido, Cantiones Sacrae ab Excell. Musices Auctoribus) notices him as Maestro in S. Pietro in Vaticano. A severe outbreak of pestilence in 1656 made Pope Alexander VII forbid all public events in Rome. Despite all that Fabri was made the maestro at Santa Maria Maggiore and in 1657 he advanced to be the director of music of the private chapel of the Borghese family at the same church. Works About twenty of his compositions had been published during his lifetime. Several compilations of all the composers of that time were edited by Domenico Bianchi, Filippo Beretti, Giovanni Poggioli and especially by Florido de Silvestris. His brother-in-law and Giacomo Fei published his Magnificat and the Salmi concertati. Many polychoral compositions have been preserved, fo

Stefano Felis

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Stefano de Maza Gatto also known as Stefano Felis (baptised in Bari on 20 January 1538; 25 September 1603), was a Neapolitan Italian composer of the Renaissance, and the collaborator and probable teacher of composer Pomponio Nenna. He composed madrigals, sacred motets, and choral settings of the Mass. Felis was born in Bari, in the province of Apulia of the Kingdom of Naples, where he became a canon at Santa Nicola. He later became Maestro di Cappella of the cathedral in Naples. He accompanied the papal nuncio, Antonio Puteo, on a journey to the court of Rudolph II in Prague during the 1580s. It was in Prague that his first book of masses was published in 1588 by the printer Georgius Nigrinus, and Felis later remarked upon his stay in Prague in the preface to his Sixth Book of Madrigals, published in Venice in 1591. As an educator, Felis seems to have had a profound effect on the succeeding generation of musicians; Carlo Gesualdo, Giovan Battista Pace, Giovan Donato Vopa, and Pomponio Nenna are counted among his pupils. In Pomponio Nenna’s first published collection of madrigals, Il Primo Libro de madrigali à cinque voci, (c. 1603), there appear several madrigals by Felis. As a tea

Stefano Landi

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Stefano Landi (baptized 26 February 1587 – 28 October 1639) was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Il Sant’Alessio (1632). Biography Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States. In 1595 he joined the Collegio Germanico in Rome as a boy soprano, and he may have studied with Asprilio Pacelli. Landi took minor orders in 1599 and began studying at the Seminario Romano in 1602. He is mentioned in the Seminary’s records as being the composer and director of a Carnival pastoral in 1607; and in 1611 his name appears as an organist and a singer, though he was already maestro di cappella at S Maria della Consolazione in 1614. Agostino Agazzari was maestro di cappella at the Seminario Romano, and he may have been one of Landi’s teachers as well. In 1618 he had moved to the north of Italy, and published a book of five-voice madrigals at Venice; apparently he had acquired a post as maestro di cappella at Padua. In addition he wrote his first opera in Padua, La morte d’Orfeo. Most likely it was used as part of the festivities for a wedding. His experien

Stefano Lentini

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Stefano Lentini (born 26 November 1974) is an Italian composer based in Rome. He has extensively composed and produced music for film, television, and theatre, working across a wide range of genres. His musical journey began with a classical guitar crafted by his grandfather, a carpenter, using wood from old wardrobe doors. Lentini started composing and recording music at an early age. A multi-instrumentalist, he is recognized for his distinctive guitar melodies but also plays piano, bass, drums, flute, lute, and various other instruments. Through multitrack recording, he often performs all instrumental parts on his albums. His compositions frequently incorporate rich string orchestrations, resulting in a symphonic and cinematic sound. Lentini’s television work has been screened in Italy and around the world and includes the TV series Belcanto, The Sea Beyond (seasons 1–5), The Red Door (seasons 1–3), Braccialetti Rossi (seasons 1–3) (International Emmy Kids Awards nominee), El Maestro, Bakhita, and Drawn for Jury Duty. He composed the soundtrack for the feature films Maresia (Premiered at the 2015 Festival des Films du Monde, Montreal), The Nest of the Turtledove (Best Ukrainian F

Stefano Mainetti

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Stefano Mainetti is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Attended Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome where he earned a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, in Composition and a 1st class honors Master of Music in Film Scoring degree. He studied Conducting with Cesare Croci and Ennio Nicotra and holds a BA, magna cum laude, in Anthropology and Political Science with a published dissertation on Richard Wagner. He was a student of Giorgio Caproni, one of the greatest 20th century Italian poet, his teacher at the primary school, who influenced his musical and artistic training. He taught Composition and Film Scoring at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and is a lecturer in the Master’s Program in Music Management and Media at Roma Tre University, where he explores the relationship between music and generative artificial intelligence. Stefano is one of the founders of the ACMF, the Italian Association of Music Composers for Films Writes music for cinema, theatre and television. Works in Italy and the United States. One of the two composers who wrote the music for the CD Abbà Pater. Works in the United States includes writing and conducting the music for films such as The

Stefano Pavesi

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Stefano Pavesi (22 January 1779, Casaletto Vaprio – 28 July 1850) was an Italian composer. He is primarily known as a prolific opera composer; his breakthrough opera was Fingallo e Comala, and his acknowledged opera masterpiece is Ser Marcantonio. He also served as the maestro di cappella of Crema Cathedral from 1814 to 1818 (shared with Giuseppe Gazzaniga), and alone from 1818 (upon Gazzaniga’s death) until his death at the age of 71. His first music studies were in Crema (neighboring his birthplace), followed by studies in Naples. While in Naples, Pavesi actively joined the Parthenopean Republic. After its suppression, Pavesi was denounced, imprisoned, and deported to France (allegedly Cimarosa intervened to prevent his execution). In France he played the serpent in Napoleon’s army band and remained in Italy after the Battle of Marengo. He returned to Crema in 1814 after the Austrian occupation of northern Italy after the War of the Sixth Coalition. He suffered a stroke in 1831 after the failure of his opera Fenella. Operas Among his 66 operas are: *La pace (Livorno, Teatro degli Avvalorati 1801) *L’avvertimento ai gelosi (La scuola dei gelosi) (Venezia, Teatro San Benedetto 1803

Stefano Rossetto

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Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich. Life His life has not yet been thoroughly studied. The earliest information available shows that he may have lived and worked on Chios, an island in the Aegean, in the service of the Genoese Giustiniani family; the connection can be made from the dedication to one of his 1560 books of madrigals. In 1560 he assisted at the wedding of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy and Marguerite of Valois, which took place in Nice. In 1566 at the latest he went to Florence, where he served Ferdinando I de’ Medici as a composer, alongside Alessandro Striggio, and Francesco Corteccia, whose career by then had begun to wane. By 1579 he was in the employ of either Albrecht V, or William V (Albrecht died in 1579). The intermedio performed in Florence in 1583 alongside Fedini’s play Le due Persile may have been his work. Connections between the Medici and Bavarian courts were close through the period, and composers often passed between them. Nothing certain is yet known of Rossetto’s career after 1580. Rossetto also compos

Stefano Scodanibbio

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Stefano Scodanibbio (18 June 1956 – 8 January 2012) was an Italian musician who reached international prominence as a double bassist and composer. Biography Scodanibbio was born in Macerata. He studied double bass with Fernando Grillo and composition with Fausto Razzi and Salvatore Sciarrino. From an early age he was interested in the double bass as a solo instrument and in promoting new trends in contemporary European and American music. In 1983 he founded the Rassegna di Nuova Musica in Macerata. He has been described as “a tremendous bassist, a fearless improviser, and a gifted composer”. The many composers who have written for him include Brian Ferneyhough, Salvatore Sciarrino, Sylvano Bussotti, Iannis Xenakis, Fernando Mencherini, Gérard Grisey, Roberto Paci Dalò, Giacinto Scelsi, Julio Estrada. He worked for a long period with Luigi Nono. He worked closely with the musician Terry Riley, as well as with choreographers and dancers such as Virgilio Sieni, Patricia Kuypers, Hervé Diasnas, the poets Edoardo Sanguineti and Gian Ruggero Manzoni, the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the artist Gianni Dessì and the director and playwright Rodrigo Garcia. He played regularly with Rohan de

Stefano Venturi del Nibbio

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Stefano Venturi del Nibbio (fl. 1592–1600) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and Florence. In addition to composing madrigals in a relatively conservative style, works which were published as far away as England, he collaborated with Giulio Caccini on one of the earliest operas, Il rapimento di Cefalo (1600). Very little is known about Venturi del Nibbio’s life. In 1592 he was in Venice, presumably to supervise the printing of his first two books of madrigals (Il primo libro de madrigali, and Il primo libro de madrigali pastorali, both for five voices), and in 1593 or 1594 he moved to Florence. After 1594 his known musical connections are all Florentine, and no unambiguous mentions of his name after 1600 have yet been found. He had a reputation as a skilful composer of vocal music, both secular and sacred, in the conservative polyphonic style in a time and place in which a new musical style was quickly developing: monody, and the stile rappresentativo, developments which in retrospect demarcated the beginning of the Baroque era in music. Venturi published a total of five books of madrigals. The earliest book, Il primo libro de madrigali of 1592, incl

Stefans Grové

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Stefans Grové (23 July 1922 – 29 May 2014) was a South African composer. Before his death the following assessment was made of him: “He is regarded by many as Africa’s greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive compositional voices of our time”. Early life In Bethlehem, Orange Free State, where Grové was born, his mother worked as a music teacher and his father as a school principal. Grové’s musical education began at school and his first compositional efforts date from that time. He eventually trained as a pianist and organist, with the guidance from his mother’s brother, D.J. Roode. While working at the Bard College, Grové also took up a post as choirmaster for the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, where he pursued an interest in the performance of early music—most notably the cantatas of J.S. Bach. A similar venture was undertaken with a group that Grové founded in 1962, the Pro Musica Rara. He undoubtedly had a better exposure to European and American avant-garde than his contemporaries and that difference can be noticed in the quality of his music. His work, Glimpses. Five Miniatures for Piano (2004) was performed at the ISCM World Music Days in Hong Ko

Steffan Andrews

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Steffan Andrews is a Gemini-nominated Canadian film, television, and video game music composer known for animated series soundtracks. Steffan has composed music for hundreds of episodes of television including series such as Littlest Pet Shop, Pound Puppies, and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. His work has also reached triple-A video game titles and feature films. Steffan’s skills cover a diverse palette of genres and styles, from orchestral to acoustic, from comedy to drama, and beyond. Andrews described both John Williams and Michael Giacchino as an influence of his work. Film and television scores * Littlest Pet Shop – composer (seasons 1–3) * My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – song orchestrator and composer, additional music (seasons 1–4) * Pound Puppies – composer * Martha Speaks – composer, additional music (seasons 1–5) * Voltron Force – composer * League of Super Evil – composer * Rated A for Awesome – composer * Edgar & Ellen – composer, additional music (episodes 14–26) * Kung Fu Magoo – composer * Battle of the Bulbs – composer, additional music * Endangered Species – composer * Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – composer * Mega Man: Fully Charged – composer * L

Steinar Ofsdal

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Steinar Ofsdal (born 4 October 1948) is a Norwegian composer and flutist. Career Ofsdal has since 1967 performed on numerous stages in Norway, and worldwide in different settings. * Landskappleiken winner at Geilo, 2009 Discography As leader * Floytesprell (Plateselskapet Mai, 1978) * Hat Trick (Hot Line, 1984) * Reisefeber (Slager, 1985) * Kalender (Slager, 1987) * Vestenfor Mane (Slager, 1989) * Sjofloyta (Slager, 1995) * Aw/Ofsdal/Sereba/Kake (Etnisk Musikklubb, 2004) As sideman With Sigmund Groven * Motlys (Polydor, 1979) * Colour Slides (NOPA, 1985) * Nattonsker (Sonet, 1991) With Lars Klevstrand * Twostep & Bla Ballader (Polydor, 1974) * To I Spann (Plateselskapet Mai, 1979) * Frie Hender (Plateselskapet Mai, 1981) With Geirr Lystrup * Grendevisur & Danselat (Plateselskapet Mai, 1977) * Kom Sol Pa Alle Mine Berg (Sonet, 1981) * Brakar & Joanna (Juni, 1993) * Sangen Om Yebo (Juni, 2005) With Lillebjorn Nilsen * Portrett (Polydor, 1973) * …Og Fia Hadde Sko! (Polydor, 1974) * Byen Med Det Store Hjertet (Polydor, 1975) * Oslo 3 (NorDisc, 1979) * Sanger (Grappa, 1988) * Haba Haba (Grappa, 1995) With others * Stein Ove Berg, Nar Dagen Kommer (Talent, 1977) * Marie Bergman, Hjarta

Stella Stocker

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Stella Prince Stocker (3 April 1858 – 29 March 1925) was an American composer, choral conductor, and early ethnomusicologist of Ojibwe traditions. Life and career Stella Prince was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, to parents Dr. David and Lucy Manning Chandler Prince. Her father directed the David Prince Sanatorium in Jacksonville. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Jacksonville and the University of Michigan in 1880 with a B.A. degree, and continued her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. She studied but did not graduate from Wellesley College, but did give an address at a memorial for Wellesley founder Henry Fowle Durant in 1889. She studied piano with Xaver Scharwenka and counterpoint and composition with Bruno Oscar Klein in New York City, piano with Frau Gliemann in Dresden, and voice with Giovanni Sbriglia. After completing her studies, she worked as a musician, composer and lecturer in Europe and America. In 1885, Stocker married Samuel Marston Stocker, a Duluth physician who was working at her father’s hospital. and Edward MacDowell. In Minnesota, Stocker began in-depth studies of the music and traditions of the Ojibwe. She visited the Mille Lacs, Leech Lake, Nett

Stelvio Cipriani

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Stelvio Cipriani (20 August 1937 – 1 October 2018), also known as Viostel, was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks, conductor and pianist. Biography Though not raised with a strong musical upbringing, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church’s organ. His priest gave Cipriani his first music lessons and encouraged the boy and his family. Cipriani attended the Santa Cecilia Conservatory starting at the age of 14. Around this time, he played in cruise ship bands, enabling him to meet Dave Brubeck. Upon returning to Italy, he began working as piano accompaniment for Rita Pavone. Cipriani’s first soundtrack was for the Spaghetti Western The Bounty Killer (1966). This was followed by his more widely known score for The Stranger Returns (a 1967 film, also known by the alternate titles A Man, a Horse, a Gun and Shoot First, Laugh Last, starring Tony Anthony). Cipriani would go on to compose other Spaghetti Western scores and also began composing poliziottesco soundtracks. Cipriani became prolific in the Italian film world, eventually garnering a Nastro d’Argento for Best Score award for The Anonymous Venetian (1970). Furthermore, one of Cipriani’s most famous

Stepan Davydov

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Stepan Ivanovich Davydov (, ; January 12 OS January 1 1777 – May 21 OS May 9 1825 in Moscow) was an Imperial Russian composer and singer. He was born in Chernihiv in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). Biography When the principal choirboy of the Imperial Court Capella, he drew the attention of the Empress Catherine II, who consigned him to the care of the Italian composer Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802). Davydov wrote and published a complete four-part liturgy and 13 Spiritual Choral Concerti, three of which were written for a double chorus. In the field of secular music Davydov participated in the composing of opera tetralogy Mermaid (together with Ferdinand Kauer and Catterino Cavos, 1803–1807, providing the additional music for the 1st, 3rd and 4th parts). He also wrote 10 ballets, various divertissements, a series of choruses to the tragedy Amboar and Aurungzeb (1814), a concert overture and numerous other works. He held the post of the Kapellmeister of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg (1806–1810). From 1810 he taught at the Theatrical School in Moscow. Operas *Dneprovskaja rusalka (Днепровская русалка – A Mermaid of the Dnepr, Russian libretto by Nikolai Krasnopolsky a

Stepan Hiha

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Stepan Petrovych Hiha (sometimes Giga; ; 16 November 1959 – 12 December 2025) was a Ukrainian composer, singer, associate professor and a People’s Artist of Ukraine (2002). Being one of the most influential representatives of Ukrainian pop music in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, Hiha combined academic vocal singing with a pop-musical repertoire. Among his most popular songs are “Zoloto Karpat”, “Tsei son” and “Yavoryna”. Hiha was among the few Ukrainian singers of the same era who have never performed in the Russian language. Hiha was a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine and was the first person to be awarded the Golden Disc in independent Ukraine. As an associate professor, he was researching higher art education in Zakarpattia Oblast and the development of Transcarpathian pop music in the second half of the 20th century. Biography Early life and education Stepan Petrovych Hiha was born on 16 November 1959 in the village of Bilky, Zakarpattia Oblast. He was raised in a family of modest means, with parents who were ordinary labour workers. In addition to attending a secondary school, he also took vocal and bayan classes. After completing ten

Štěpán Rak

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Štěpán Rak (born 8 August 1945) is a Czech classical guitarist and composer of Ukrainian origin. He is well known for the technical innovations that he uses in his compositions. Biography Štěpán Rak was born as Štěpán Slivka in Prague to Cilja (Vasilina) Slivka (1924-1993). His mother escaped from Carpathian Ruthenia in 1941 after it was occupied by Hungary. She was imprisoned in USSR and joined Czechoslovak Army in 1944. Štěpán was adopted by Marie and Josef Rak in 1946 and his biological mother later returned to Ukraine. Rak first studied at a Fine Arts High School in Prague and continued with guitar studies at the Prague Conservatory until 1970. Later he studied composition at the Prague Academy of Arts. In 1973, his orchestral composition Hiroshima won a second prize at a Czechoslovak competition for young composers. From 1975 to 1980 he taught guitar at the Jyväskylä Conservatory in Finland. After his return to Czechoslovakia he taught at Prague Conservatory. Since 1982 he has been teaching guitar at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Rak speaks English, Russian, Finnish and German. Compositions Solo Guitar * Sonata per chitarra No. 1 (op. 1, No. 1) * Sonata per chitarra No

Steph Copeland

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Steph Copeland is a Canadian musician and composer, known principally for her work on horror films. Her credits have included the films Antisocial, Ejecta, The Drownsman, Bite, The Heretics, Vicious Fun, The Retreat, Laced, Outpost and Cascade. Awards References External links *

Stephan Berg

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Stephan Berg (born 11 February 1957) is a Swedish composer and songwriter. He was the writer of the Carola song Fångad av en stormvind, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991. He also wrote and composed the song Bara hon älskar mig, performed by Blond, winning the 1997 Swedish Eurovision Song Contest preselction. Melodifestivalen entries References External links * Official website

Stephan König

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Stephan König (born 4 October 1963) is a German composer, pianist and conductor. He is the musical director of the “LeipJAZZig-Orkester” and the chamber orchestra “artentfaltung” and is considered one of the most authoritative Jazz musicians in Leipzig. Life König was born in Berlin in 1963. After six years of music school lessons in Magdeburg, König was a pupil at the Spezialschule für Musik in Halle from 1974 to 1980. In 1980, he began studying at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, majoring in conducting (Olaf Koch and Christian Kluttig), piano (Wolfram Merkel) and composition (Peter Herrmann) and graduated in 1986 in all three subjects. He then completed additional studies in composition at the same university until 1988. Since the same year, he has held a teaching position at the university. In the field of jazz/popular music he currently teaches jazz piano and piano. In 1985, he made a guest appearance as harpsichordist of the Halle Opera House in Poland. In 1986, he was a founding member of the Leipzig Jazz Theatre, of which he was musical director for two years. In 1987, the pianist founded the König Trio together with Thomas Moritz (double bass) and Jörg Steffens

Stephan Mathieu

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Stephan Mathieu (born 11 October 1967) is a German mastering engineer and former musician. He currently lives in Bonn, Germany where he runs Schwebung Mastering, an independent studio for audio mastering and restoration. :"(In 1997), I worked as an engineer and teacher in a classic electronic music studio in France, the former CERM (Centre européen de recherche musicale) Metz, where I had set up an experimental analog lab around their vintage devices by ARP, Crumar, EMS, Moog, New England Digital and Roland, as well as a digital production studio featuring the latest Pro Tools 24-Bit audio technology. There I started mastering in 1998 – without exactly knowing that’s what I did – by transferring countless DATs and reels with recordings made during their annual festival, cleaned, edited, and EQed them for archival purposes and as CD-R copies for the composers and performers. Around the same time, I began a long journey of learning more about listening critically, frequencies and dynamics while attending many mastering sessions for my material." Mathieu founded Schwebung Mastering in 2014 and has “collaborated with producers running the gamut of modern recorded music.” He has worked

Stephan Moccio

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Stephan Moccio is a Canadian composer, producer, pianist, arranger, conductor and recording artist. He co-wrote and co-produced the two end credit songs for Fifty Shades of Grey and its soundtrack: “Earned It” (The Weeknd) and “I Know You” (Skylar Grey), with the former being nominated for Best R&B Song and Best Song Written For Visual Media at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, and Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards. He also was a producer on the Weeknd’s album Beauty Behind the Madness, which was nominated for Album Of The Year at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. father and a French-Canadian mother. Moccio is fluent in English and French. Growing up in Niagara Falls, Moccio began his piano studies at the age of 3. His musical style and vocabulary are influenced by the musical genres of classical, jazz, pop, hip hop, blues, and dance. Career Moccio enrolled at the University of Western Ontario where he studied performance and classical piano studies under instructors John Paul Bracey and Jack Behrens. After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in composition and piano performance in 1994, he was accepted into Berklee College of Music. However, he chose to focus on developing

Stéphane Blet

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Stéphane Blet (9 March 1969 – 7 January 2022) was a French classical pianist and composer. Life and career Born in Paris, France, Blet was a disciple of the great American pianist Byron Janis who discovered an exceptional talent in him and invited him to New York. He was also a young assistant of Vladimir Horowitz. In 1986, he began an international concert career. His recitals at the Salle Gaveau and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées earned him the adulation of the public, as during his “Franz Liszt marathon” in February 1987 where he was applauded for more than thirty minutes, which made the music critic Pierre Petit say: “Stéphane Blet is more than just piano, it’s the music itself.” At the age of fifteen, he recorded his first album, exclusively devoted to Franz Liszt. He was also a concert performer from the age of fifteen. One year later he signed with Philips Classics, for whom he recorded two new CDs, still dedicated to the Hungarian composer, including the Piano Sonata in B minor, selection of the meilleurs CD Diapason 1989, who led André Boucourechliev to write: “From his body to body with the work is born a superb architecture, chanted in turn by majesty and the most int

Stéphane de Gérando

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Stéphane de Gérando (born June 23, 1965) is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, and researcher. Biography Stéphane de Gérando was born in L’Haÿ-les-Roses in France into a family with historical ties to France and Hungary. He studied classical music from the age of 7 in France (conservatories of Saint-Brieuc, Rennes, Paris). At the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de paris, he was the pupil of Alain Bancquart in composition, Michel Philippot in analysis, Gérard Grisey in orchestration, Guy Reibel and Laurent Cuniot in electroacoustics, Tristan Murail in computer music and Philippe Manoury (IRCAM). In the third cycle, he follows the master classes of Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Emmanuel Nunes, Henri Dutilleux. In the field of research, his research dissertations are directed by Hugues Dufourt (DEA), Ivanka Stoïanova and Horacio Vaggione (PhD, Contingence et déterminisme procedural appliqués à la synthèse sonore informatique et l’écriture musicale (ISBN 2-284-00761-9), Pierre Abert Castanet (in French “Habitation à diriger les recherches”, La création musicale en question, 2 volumes, 800 pages, published under the name of L’oeuvre mus

Stéphane Delplace

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Stéphane Delplace (born 11 November 1953) is a French composer. Biography Delplace was born in Bordeaux. He studied piano under Pierre Sancan, as well as Harmony (Alain Bernaud), Counterpoint (Jean-Paul Holstein), Fugue (Michel Merlet), and Orchestration (Serge Nigg) at the Conservatoire de Paris, from 1979 to 1984, in addition to studying the Organ with Jean Galard through the Ville de Paris. Delplace began to compose in the mid-1980s, with a firm conviction, though unpopular at the time, that tonal music still hides infinite unexplored territories. His music finds its roots in that of Bach, Brahms, Fauré, Ravel, and Prokofiev. This determination to write tonal music has naturally kept him far from official contemporary music circles. In 2000, he joined the Phoenix Group founded by Jean-François Zygel and Thierry Escaich, in order to propose an alternative to institutionalized contemporary music. Having explored many different types of ensembles, from orchestra to choir, from chamber music to the organ, he dedicates a large part of his opus to the piano, often played by many prestigious performers. From 2008, he began to perform his own works in concert. His works are played mostl

Stéphane Héaume

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Stéphane Héaume (born 27 March 1971 in Paris) is a French novelist. He also writes texts for composers of classical music. After several years spent in Cameroun and New York, he now lives in Paris. Novels * Le Clos Lothar, Paris, , 2002 (Jury Prize of the Grand Prix Jean-Giono 2002 and Prix Emmanuel Roblès 2003) , and Seuil, series “Points”, 2009. * Orkhidos, Paris, Zulma, 2004 * Le Fou de Printzberg, Paris, , 2006 and Seuil, series “Points”, 2007 * Le Contemplateur, Paris, Éditions Anne Carrière, 2007 * La Nuit de Fort-Haggar, Paris, Seuil, 2009 * Sheridan Square, Paris, Seuil, 2012 (Prix de la Ville de Deauville 2012) * L’Insolite évasion de Sebastian Wimer, Serge Safran, 2016 Short stories * L’Atlantide retrouvée in L’Atelier du roman (n°25), La Table Ronde, 2001 – Lueurs froides in Immédiatement (n°23), 2003 – Houldine in Houlgate, Aude et ses livres, 2003 – Le Livre de moire in Musique intime, Imprimerie Laffont, 2003 – Le Naturaliste in Décapage (n°34), La Table Ronde, 2008 – Par ordre du roi in Décapage (n°35), La Table Ronde, 2008 – Au Venusberg in Décapage (n°37), La Table Ronde, 2009 – La Flèche dans la Jungle in 100 Monuments, 100 Ecrivains, Editions du Patrimoine, 2010

Stéphane Picq

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Stéphane Picq (16 August 1965 – 3 February 2025) was a French composer of video game music, primarily for ERE Informatique/Exxos and Cryo Interactive. History Picq first began composing in 1987. He retired from the industry in 1998 and moved to Madagascar. In February 2006, he announced that he was building a new studio in Madagascar and might release a compilation of old songs. On 13 November 2015, ZOOM Platform and the Jordan Freeman Group revealed that Picq, original musical composer for MegaRace 1, had joined the MegaRace Reboot Team and would be composing the soundtrack with other team members, including Jordan Freeman and Max Petrosky, along with some special guests. The news had actually broken on the previous day, 12 November 2015, via the MegaRace Reboot’s official Facebook page. On 22 August 2016, ZOOM Platform and the Jordan Freeman Group released Picq’s complete MegaRace 1 soundtrack re-mastered in stereo for the first time ever on various digital download services including Amazon MP3, CDBaby, Google Play, and iTunes. In an interview in July 2020, he looked back on his career and in particular on the reasons that led him to leave the video game industry. The composer e

Stéphane Roy (composer)

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Stéphane Roy is an acousmatic composer. His works have been programmed throughout Europe and the Americas. His latest album, L’inaudible, received the 2019-2020 Prix Opus — Album of the year, Electroacoustic Music. Born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Roy earned both a doctorate degree in electroacoustic composition and a PhD in musicology from the Université de Montréal. He is the author of L’analyse des musiques électroacoustiques: Modèles et propositions (published 2003, Paris; 2003-04 Prix Opus — Book of the Year), a book on electroacoustic music analysis. He has taught composition, auditory perception and electroacoustic music analysis in various universities and music conservatories, in Québec and abroad. Once in a while he gives lectures on electroacoustic music analysis. Stéphane Roy is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), and his works have been published on audio support by various labels, including empreintes DIGITALes (Kaleidos, 1996; Migrations, 2003; L’inaudible, 2019). He lives in Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. * Ondes / Arborescences (1987) * Paysages intérieurs (1988) * Récit pour cordes (1998) * Résonances d’arabesques (1990) * Trois petites histoires

Stephanie Economou

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Stephanie Economou is an American composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Her score for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok won the first Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media at the 65th annual ceremony. Early life and education Economou grew up in Long Island, where she was involved in music programs at public school. She was inspired by her older sister Nicole to begin playing music, and chose the violin. Economou attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied composition. Career Video games Ubisoft approached Economou and employed her to initially work on Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The Siege of Paris. Economou composed the soundtrack to the Dawn of Ragnarök expansion of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The album for this soundtrack won the first ever Grammy award given to a game soundtrack. Economou was the only woman nominated in her category. Films Economou’s film credits include scores to the films About My Father, Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 among others. Filmography Music department As composer Awards and honors * Fellow for the Sundance Institute

Stephanie Martin (composer)

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Stephanie Martin (born 1962) is a Canadian composer, conductor, and associate professor of music at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design. Biography Martin was born in Tillsonburg, Ontario. She began to learn music as a child, and once said “When I was a kid I listened obsessively to Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame, written in the 14th century.” Martin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in music from Wilfrid Laurier University, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto, and an Associate Diploma from the Royal Canadian College of Organists. As of 2019, Martin is an associate professor in the music department at York University. She is founder and director of the medieval music ensemble Schola Magdalena, spent 20 years from 1997 to 2017 as artistic director of Pax Christi Chorale, and worked as the music director and organist of the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Toronto. Partial list of works Regarding her composition practices, Martin said in an interview “I don’t have a very healthy composition practice. I am a binger. I carve out blocks of time when I don’t do anything but compose. That means I neglect some other important things, but it does m

Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach

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Countess Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach (December 26, 1849 – February 16, 1919) was a Hungarian pianist and composer. She was also known as Stephanie Brand-Vrabely. Biography Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Hungary. Her father, Karl von Vrabély, was a director of the Royal Hungarian Mail. Her mother, Seraphine Edle von Szlemenics, was a Doctor of Laws, the daughter of the Privy Councillor Professor Paul von Szlemenics. Stephanie showed early musical talent and received piano lessons. She released her first song composition at age 14, and later released a collection of thirty songs under the pseudonym Stephanie Brand-Vrabely. She gave concerts in Vienna and other major cities in Europe. On July 6, 1869, she married Count Ernst von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, brother of Adelma Vay. She worked as a writer, publishing in the feuilleton supplements of various newspapers. In recognition of her achievements she received a Silver Medal for Art and Science from Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Works Selected works include: Piano Works: *Three Character Pieces (Opus 8) *Fifteen little fantasy pieces (Opus 24) *Five Piano Pieces (Opus 25) *Dance sce

Stephanus Le Roux Marais

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Stephanus le Roux Marais (1 February 1896 – 25 May 1979) was a South African composer known for his significant contribution to Afrikaans art song. Early life and education Stephanus le Roux Marais was born on 1 February 1896, on the farm Aasvogelkop in the district of Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Stephen A. Emery

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Stephen Albert Emery (October 4, 1841 – 1891) was a 19th-century American music composer and theorist. Many of the younger American composers were indebted to Emery for their instruction in the art of composition, and he stood in the front rank of American theorists. Emery has a national reputation as a lecturer upon musical subjects, a contributor to musical papers, a composer, a teacher of harmony, counterpoint and piano. As a composer, he wrote about a 150 published pieces, all of which were musicianly, and many of which enjoyed a large share of popular favor. Emery early manifested a strong love for music, and he even composed some little pieces before he was able to read notes, an elder sister showing him how to write them. After a common school education, he entered upon a collegiate course at Colby University in the fall of 1859, but owing to ill-health and impaired sight, he was compelled to leave after the freshman year. He, then as a pastime, took up the study of the piano and harmony, his teacher being Henry L. Edwards, of Portland, Maine. Acting upon the advice of his teacher, Emery went to Leipzig in 1862, and there for two years, he studied with Richter, Papperitz, Pl

Stephen Albert

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Stephen Joel Albert (6 February 1941 – 27 December 1992) was an American composer. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning Symphony No. 1 RiverRun (1983) and his Cello Concerto (1990), written for Yo-Yo Ma. He died suddenly in a 1992 automobile accident, having just sketched out his Second Symphony. The work was subsequently completed by Sebastian Currier, and his death sparked musical tributes from composer colleagues such as Aaron Jay Kernis and Christopher Rouse. Life and career Born in New York City, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Darius Milhaud and Bernard Rogers (1958–1960) Following composition lessons in Stockholm with Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Albert studied with Joseph Castaldo at the Philadelphia Musical Academy (BM 1962); in 1963 he worked with George Rochberg at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1965 he won a Rome Fellowship to study in Rome at the American Academy. From 1985 to 1988 he worked as the Seattle Symphony’s composer-in-residence. His notable stud

Stephen Bray

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Stephen Pate Bray (born December 23, 1956) is an American songwriter, drummer, and record producer. He is best known for his collaborations with Madonna, being a member of the band Breakfast Club, and for winning the 2017 Grammy Award for the Best Musical Theater Album of the Tony Award-winning revival of The Color Purple. Bray owns and operates Saturn Sound recording studios and the Soultone Records label. His song “Cross My Broken Heart” was featured on the soundtrack to the 1987 feature film Beverly Hills Cop II. Career Bray began studying music through private instruction in Detroit, attended Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor. He continued his education at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1978. Collaborations with Madonna Bray dated Madonna before her fame when she was attending the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for dance in 1976. He moved to New York after receiving a call from Madonna in November 1980; at that time she was a member of the band Breakfast Club in Queens. Madonna wanted to form a new band and invited Bray to play the drums. They formed the band Emmy and the Emmys. They also rekindled their romance and together they moved into The Music Building

Stephen Caudel

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Stephen Caudel is a British composer and guitarist. He studied at Leeds College of Music where he took a specialist course in Classical and Jazz music and then moved to London to work as a composer and performer. He has met and worked with a wide range of established artists/musicians over the years including Louis Clark, Art Garfunkel, Stanley Myers and John Williams. Caudel’s creative output to date includes 6 albums (4 solo) and several highly individual orchestral works. Having taken a break from music for several years due to family commitments, he currently lives in Cumbria and has returned to music, actively composing and recording again. Musical Influences *Classical: Mahler, Chopin, Tchaikovsky *Jazz: Gershwin, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli (became friends in the late 70s) *Popular: Beatles, Hendrix Orchestral works * 1983 - Wine Dark Sea (Rock Symphony) – large scale classical/rock piece premiered at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre with the Wren Orchestra conducted by Louis Clark of “Hooked on Classics” and ELO fame. * 1985 - Nostalgie (Rhapsody) – for Classical guitar and Chamber Orchestra * 1993 - The Edel Rhapsody – for solo Wagner Tuba and Orchestra Discograph

Stephen Chatman

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Stephen Chatman (born 28 February 1950) is an American-born Canadian composer residing in Vancouver. His compositions have been performed across Canada and in the United States. Early life and education Chatman was born in Faribault, Minnesota. He studied with Joseph R. Wood and Walter Aschaffenburg at the Oberlin Conservatory. At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he studied with Ross Lee Finney, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, and Eugene Kurtz, completing a D.M.A. degree in 1977. A Fulbright grant enabled him to study with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in 1974. Career In 1976, Chatman joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. He composed a number of musical works in the 1980s, including the suite There Is Sweet Music There for chorus and oboe, and the choral work Due North. Chatman became Head of the Composition Division of the UBC School of Music in 1977 and was promoted to Professor in 1987. He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in July 2012. In 2010 his composition “Magnificat” was his third nomination for a Juno Award. He has received three BMI Awards to Student Composers and four Western Canadian Music

Stephen Codman

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Stephen Codman (c. 1796 – 6 October 1852) was a Canadian composer of English descent. His known compositions all date from before 1835, and mainly consist of works for solo voice or vocal ensembles. Early life and education Codman was born in Norwich, England. He was a pupil of John Christmas Beckwith and William Crotch. Career In 1816 Codman came to Canada to assume the post of organist at Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral in Quebec City, most likely succeeding John Bentley. He remained in that post up until his death in Quebec City 36 years later. and They Are Not All Sweet Nightingales, were published by Goulding, D’Almaine, and Co in 1827, placing them among the oldest published Canadian compositions. He also wrote an instrumental piece for the organ, titled “Invocation”. Codman died in Quebec City on 6 October 1852. References

Stephen Cohn

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Stephen Cohn is an American composer of concert and film music living in Los Angeles, California. His compositional style embraces an expanded tonality with a 21st-century perspective. Early life Cohn was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father was an attorney who wrote chamber music as a hobby as his mother was a dancer and violinist and his sister a flutist. He studied the clarinet as a child and later, classical guitar. Cohn attended Whitman College in Washington and finished his Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in music at California State University at Northridge. also featuring guitarist and songwriter Robb Royer. The group released their first single in 1966 under the name of The Rainy Day People, before becoming The Pleasure Fair and issuing a self-titled LP the following year. In 1973, he released a self-titled solo album on Motown Records. His first string quartet, Eye of Chaos, was premiered by the Arditti Quartet, who also recorded the work for release on an Albany Records CD entitled Arditti Quartet California Composers. His chamber orchestra work Noah’s Rhythm was premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, conducted by Pulitzer Prize winn

Stephen Dodgson

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Stephen Cuthbert Vivian Dodgson (17 March 192413 April 2013) was a British composer and broadcaster. Dodgson’s prolific musical output covered most genres, ranging from opera and large-scale orchestral music to chamber and instrumental music, as well as choral works and song. Three instruments to which he dedicated particular attention were the guitar, harpsichord and recorder. He wrote in a mainly tonal, although sometimes unconventional, idiom. Some of his works use unusual combinations of instruments. Biography Stephen Dodgson was born in Chelsea, London in 1924, the third child of John Arthur Dodgson, who was a symbolist painter and nephew of Campbell Dodgson, and his wife, who was born Margaret Valentine Pease and also an artist. He was distant cousin of Lewis Carroll. He was educated at Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire and at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. In 1942, he was conscripted into the Royal Navy and took part in anti-submarine warfare escorting convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic. On returning to London, he studied composition privately for a year with Bernard Stevens before enrolling at the Royal College of Music in 1946, officially to study the horn (under Fr

Stephen Douglas Burton

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Stephen Douglas Burton (born February 24, 1943) is an American composer. Life and career A native of Whittier, California, Burton received his musical education at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied from 1960 to 1962, and Peabody Conservatory, from which he received his master’s degree in 1974; he studied further at the Salzburg Mozarteum under Hans Werner Henze. From 1970 until 1974 he was on the faculty of the Catholic University of America; beginning in 1973 he taught at George Mason University, from which he retired in 2006. There he became a professor in 1983; His textbook Orchestration, published in 1982, is popularly used in the teaching of the discipline. Burton received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969. During his career he has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants from the National Opera Institute; the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; the Myers Foundation; the Kipplinger Foundation; the Dreyfus Foundation; and the Coolidge Foundation. Works Adapted from: Stage *No Trifling with Love (opera, one act, libretto by the composer after Alfred de Musset), 1970 *Finisterre (ballet), 1970 *An American Triptyc

Stephen Endelman

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Stephen Endelman is a British born classical composer and conductor. He is best known for his soundtracks including The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), Ed (1996), City of Industry (1997), Finding Graceland (1998), The Proposition (1998), Jawbreaker (1999), Evelyn (2002), Home of the Brave (2006) and Redbelt (2008). He wrote the Grammy nominated score for De-Lovely (2004) and the incidental music for the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. Early life Endelman studied as a clarinetist at the Purcell School of Young Musicians when he was twelve years old. He subsequently studied composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. Endelman composed two operas at age eighteen as a prodigy. He moved to New York City to develop his film music career in 1992. He scored the Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, which won a Tony Award. Endelman made his film debut the following year with Robert De Niro’s A Bronx Tale. His second film, Household Saints, was released the same year. Career Endelman has worked with such distinguished direc

Stephen Ferguson

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Stephen Ferguson is a Scottish musician, composer and producer living in Vienna. Ferguson has since the early 1980s composed and produced film and movie scores, and has been praised as a composer of “undisputed originality”. Education Ferguson studied classical piano in London, musicology (Ph.D.) at the University of Vienna and holds a master’s degree in music analysis. Through his music producing background, Ferguson has attained a reputation as a technologically advanced musician, an additional skill that has offered him employment as an IT expert, such at the University of Vienna’s Department of English in the early 2000s. Compositions His compositions have been commissioned, among others, by the Edinburgh Festival, Ars Electronica (Austria), Salzburger Festspiele, WDR, BBC, King’s Lynn Festival, Musikverein Wien, ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, steirischer herbst. Discography (as solo artist) Stephen Ferguson: Multitracks, Blackplastic LP 07124 (1983) Stephen Ferguson: Piano Music, Extraplatte CD 850 088 (1988) Stephen Ferguson: Piano Wind Brass, Extraplatte CD EX 112 090 (1990) Current projects aAmplify, operational since 2000, is a digital music and productions site.

Stephen Flaherty

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Stephen Flaherty (born September 18, 1960) is an American composer of musical theatre and film. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/book writer Lynn Ahrens. He is best known for writing the Broadway musicals Ragtime, which was nominated for thirty-five Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and won the Tony for Best Original Score; Once on This Island, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, the Olivier Award for London’s Best Musical, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and eight Tony Awards; and Seussical, which was nominated for the Grammy Award. Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards (with Lynn Ahrens) for his songs and song score for the animated film musical Anastasia. Biography Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began studying piano at the age of seven. When he was twelve, he knew he wanted to write musicals and by age fourteen he had already composed his first musical score. He attended South Hills Catholic High School in Pittsburgh and later studied musical composition and piano at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1982. with a B.M. in Musical Composition

Stephen Foster

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Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as “the father of American music”, was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Foster wrote more than 200 songs, including “Oh! Susanna”, “Hard Times Come Again No More”, “Camptown Races”, “Old Folks at Home” (“Swanee River”), “My Old Kentucky Home”, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”, “Old Black Joe”, and “Beautiful Dreamer”. Many of his compositions remain popular today. Early life There are many biographies of Foster, but details differ widely. Among other issues, he wrote very little biographical information himself, and his brother Morrison Foster may have destroyed much information that he judged to reflect negatively upon the family. Foster was born on July 4, 1826, in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. His parents, William Barclay Foster and Eliza Clayland Tomlinson Foster, were of Ulster Scots and English descent. Foster had three older sisters and six older brothers. He attended private academies in Allegheny, Athens, and Towanda, Pennsylvania, and received an education in English grammar, diction, the classics, penmanship, Latin, Greek, and mathematics. Foster s

Stephen Hale Marsh

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Stephen Hale Marsh was born in the United Kingdom and lived in other countries, including Japan, but thirty productive years of his career were spent in Australia. He gave popular lectures on music. He was fondly regarded as a pioneer of music. He taught singing in Sydney, where he was said to have raised the expectations of audiences. Although he was initially an ally of fellow composer Isaac Nathan, he later became a rival. Marsh took part in the inauguration of the Victorian Academy of Music. Marsh wore his beard in the chin-strap style. He played and wrote music for the harp. Works * 1824 There’s a magic in thine eye, love * 1841 Leichhardt’s Return * 1845 Australian Waltz * 1846 Leichhardt’s march * 1851 Ferrolana Polka Opus 63 https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165655339/view?partId=nla.obj-165655347 * 1854 ‘By Murray’s Banks’ - setting of bush poem by ‘Ignotus’ or ‘Evelyn’ * 1854 Liechhardt March * 1854 Bathurst March * 1855 Brilliant fantasia *1856 Far O’er the Sea * 1856 Allan McGan * 1859 In Thee Oh Lord Do I Put My Trust * 1862 (arrangeur) ‘Le Bon Voyage’ * 1865 ‘The Stockman’s last bed’ setting of lines published as early as 1857 *1872 Illustrations of Pipelӗ *Advance Australia

Stephen Hartke

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Stephen Paul Hartke (born July 6, 1952) is an American composer. Hartke is best known as the composer of Meanwhile – Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays, winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2013. Following a twenty six-year tenure at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California, Hartke became the head of Oberlin Conservatory’s composition department on July 1, 2015. Life Hartke was born in Orange, New Jersey. He studied at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1984 to 1985, he was Fulbright Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. He joined the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in 1987. He was composer in residence at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 1988 to 1992. In 2015, he took Emeritus status at USC when he moved to Oberlin Conservatory to chair its composition department. Hartke has received commissions from numerous groups, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for the new Brandenburg Project, Glimmerglass Opera (for The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif), the New Yo

Stephen Heller

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Stephen Heller (15 May 181314 January 1888) was a Hungarian pianist, teacher, and composer whose career spanned the period from Schumann to Bizet. Heller was an influence for later Romantic composers. He outlived his reputation, and was a near-forgotten figure at his death in 1888. Biography Heller was born in Pest, Hungary in 1813. He had been destined for a legal career, but instead decided to devote his life to music. At the age of nine he performed Jan Ladislav Dussek’s Concerto for Two Pianos with his teacher, Franz Brauer, at the Budapest Theater. He played so well that he was sent to study in Vienna, Austria, under Carl Czerny. Unable to afford Czerny’s expensive fees, he became a student of . In 1862 he performed Mozart’s E-flat concerto for two pianos with Charles Hallé at The Crystal Palace. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life in Paris. Works Heller was a prolific composer for the piano and his studies remain popular with music teachers and students. Complete worklist * Op. 1 Thème de Paganini varié * Op. 2 Les charmes de Hambourg. Rondeau brillant * Op. 3 Fantaisie dramatique sur les opéras Semiramide et Masaniello * Op. 4 Valse Favorite de Hubovsky. Variatio

Stephen Jaffe

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Stephen Jaffe (born December 30, 1954, in Washington, D.C. ) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and serves on the music faculty of Duke University, where he holds the post of Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition; his colleagues there include composers Scott Lindroth, John Supko, and Anthony Kelley. Jaffe graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977; he received a master’s degree the following year from the same institution. During his time in Pennsylvania, he studied with George Crumb, George Rochberg, and Richard Wernick. Jaffe’s music has been performed across the United States, Europe, and China (including the Nottingham, Tanglewood, and Oregon Bach Festivals) by ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra, the R.A.I. of Rome, the North Carolina Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Miami String Quartet, and the Ciompi Quartet. He has received awards and commissions, and recordings of his works are available, including a three-volume retrospective of his work The Music of Stephen Jaffe from Bridge Records. Jaffe’s not

Stephen Malinowski

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Stephen Anthony Malinowski is an American composer, pianist, educator, software engineer, and inventor. He was born on August 6, 1953, in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his musical animations and his computer program, the Music Animation Machine, which produces animated graphical scores. He visualizes music using a system of colored shapes, taking information from a MIDI file. He has collaborated with artists such as Vincent Lo, Alexander Peskanov, Björk, and the Del Sol Quartet. Malinowski studied music theory and composition with Thea Musgrave, Peter Fricker, Stanley Dale Krebs, and David Barton at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received a B.M. in 1981 and was a guest lecturer 1981–1982. In 1984 he began working as a software engineer. In 1990 Malinowski started selling video tapes with his animations on them, and Classic Arts Showcase began broadcasting his animations. In 2001, he began working on psychoacoustically-inspired audio processing algorithms. He also showcased the same technology in a TEDx talk in Zurich. and also have been featured at the TEDx conference in Zurich, Switzerland. As of April 28,

Stephen Manas

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Stephen Manas (; born 27 July 1992) is a French actor and music composer. Manas spent some of his early career in India, the Philippines, Japan, and the United Kingdom before returning to France. He is best known for his recurring role as Richard Montlaur in the Apple TV+ comedy series Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis. Early life Manas was born on 27 July 1992, He grew up in Megève, a ski resort village in the southeastern Alps in Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France. He realized he wanted to work in the film industry after watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. He was also interested in music, and played several instruments. In August 2019, as a first-time guest at the Cannes Film Festival, Manas met an agent specializing in international casting. A month later, he joined the cast of the new series Apple TV+, Ted Lasso in a recurring role, playing Richard Montlaur, a young French player on a Premier League football team in England. The series stars Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Nick Mohammed, Juno Temple, Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster, and Brett Goldstein. Music Manas started playing music at 8 years old. He first played clarinet in an or

Stephen McNeff

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Stephen McNeff (born 6 September 1951) is an Irish composer, best known for his work in contemporary theatre and opera. Biography Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast and grew up in south Wales. He studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and undertook post-graduate research at the University of Exeter. He was Associate Director of Manchester University’s Contact Theatre in 1979−80. From 1980−84, as Composer in Residence and Associate Director of the Music Theatre Studio Ensemble of the Banff Centre and then Comus Theatre Canada, he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his opera The Secret Garden (1985) based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. His theatre music in the 1990s saw McNeff receive a Scotsman award for the National Youth Music Theatre production of Aesop at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival before an unconventional staging of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland by the Donmar for the BOC Covent Garden festival in 1994 brought him wider attention. He was appointed ‘Composer-in-the-House’ with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2005 and later became Composer in Residence. During his three-year tenure, he wrote a number of major works for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and

Stephen Montague

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Stephen Rowley Montague (born March 10, 1943, in Syracuse, New York) is an American composer, pianist and conductor who grew up in Idaho, New Mexico, West Virginia and Florida. Musical statement “I write music to engage an audience, to seduce them sometimes by stealth with something they know, then taking them somewhere they may never have been. I’m a maverick and, like Henry Cowell, want to live in the whole world of music, not just one corner. My works range from the simple vernacular through high classical to the avant-garde. Variety is my oxygen.” ~ Stephen Montague Background Born in Syracuse, New York in 1943, Stephen Montague lived in Albion, Idaho, from 1947 to 1951, where his father, Dr. Richard Montague (1916–2015) was head of music at Southern Idaho College of Education. From 1952 to 1957, they lived in Fairmont, West Virginia, where his father was a professor of music at Fairmont State College, now University, and went on to become professor of music at St. Petersburg College, Florida, from 1959 to 1982. Stephen Montague’s brother Dr. John Montague (born 1944) is director of Buffalo Maritime Center, New York. Education After studying piano, conducting and composition at

Stephen Oliver (composer)

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Stephen Michael Harding Oliver (10 March 1950 – 29 April 1992) was an English composer, best known for his operas. Early life and education Oliver was born on 10 March 1950 in Chester, a son of Charlotte Hester (née Girdlestone; born 1911-2006), a religious education adviser, and Osborne George Oliver (b. 1903-2001), an electricity board official. His maternal great-grandfather was William Boyd Carpenter, a Bishop of Ripon and a court chaplain to Queen Victoria. Oliver was educated at St Paul’s Cathedral School, Ardingly College and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he read music under Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson. His first opera, The Duchess of Malfi (1971), was staged while he was still at Oxford. Career Later works include incidental music for the Royal Shakespeare Company (including The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby), a musical, Blondel (1983; with Tim Rice), and over forty operas, including Tom Jones (1975), Beauty and the Beast (1984) and Timon of Athens (1991). Oliver also wrote music for television, including several of the BBC’s Shakespeare productions (Timon among those), the soundtrack to the 1986 film Lady Jane, and some chamber and instrume

Stephen Paulus

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Stephen Paulus (August 24, 1949 – October 19, 2014) was an American Grammy Award winning composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature. His best-known piece is his 1982 opera The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of several operas he composed for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which prompted The New York Times to call him “a young man on the road to big things.” He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation and won the prestigious Kennedy Center Friedheim Prize. He was commissioned by such notable organizations as the Minnesota Opera, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, the American Composers Orchestra, the Dale Warland Singers, the Harvard Glee Club and the New York Choral Society. Paulus was a passionate advocate for the works and careers of his colleagues. He co-founded the American Composers Forum in 1973, the largest composer service organization in the U.S., and served as the Symphony and Concert Representative on the ASCAP Board of Directors from 1990 until his death (from complications follow

Stephen Rae (composer)

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Douglas Stephen Rae (born 8 November 1961) is an Australian AFI award-winning composer, musician and actor. Over his 30 year career, Stephen Rae has composed music for a varied roster of television, film, theatre and advertising. He has created scores for several iconic Australian television series, including Love My Way, Puberty Blues, Gallipoli and Safe Harbour, for which he won the 2018 FIPA (Federation Internationale de production Audiovisuale) Gold Prize for his music. Stephen’s film credits include the 2020 feature documentary EL METIDO, as well as Mary (2016) The Turning, (2014), Temptation (2003), Blackjack (2003) THE ROAD FROM COORAIN (2002), The Well (1997), Dead Heart (1996), Mary (1995) and Traps (1994). He has won the Australian Film Institute (AACTA), the Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCC) and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) awards for Best Screen Music. He has also won a CLIO (New York) for his work in advertising. He has composed music for theatre productions at Belvoir St Theatre and the Sydney Theatre Company. He has also worked as an actor in many productions with directors including Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sharman. Film and television Compositi

Stephen Scott (composer)

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Stephen Scott (October 10, 1944 – March 10, 2021) was an American composer best known for his development of the bowed piano. This is a form of extended technique which involves a grand piano being played by an ensemble of ten musicians who utilize lengths of rosined horsehair, nylon filament, and other utensils to bow the strings of the piano, creating an orchestra-like sound. Scott borrowed the technique from C. Curtis-Smith, who invented it in 1972. Scott founded the Bowed Piano Ensemble in 1977, for which he composed. His work is associated with the minimalist style of composition. Scott studied with Homer Keller at the University of Oregon and subsequently with Ron Nelson and Gerald Shapiro. He taught music at Colorado College from 1969 to 2014, becoming a full professor there in 1989. He also taught at Evergreen State College and has served as visiting composer at the Aspen Music School, New England Conservatory of Music, Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and at several universities and conservatories in Australia and Europe. Several recordings with Scott’s Bowed Piano Ensemble have been released by New Albion Records, Albany Records, and Navona Rec

Stephen Vitiello

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Stephen Vitiello (born November 5, 1964 in New York City ) is an American visual and sound artist who has released numerous ambient minimal noise electronic audio albums throughout the past three decades. Originally a punk guitarist, Vitiello was early on influenced towards art by working for video artist Nam June Paik who he met in 1991. In order to transform incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment, he frequently works with Moog Music ring modulators, hard disk recorders, Schoeps CMXY stereo condenser microphones and Sennheiser MKH short shotgun microphones. Vitiello has had solo exhibitions of sound installations, photographs and drawings at museums and galleries including The Project in New York City, MASS MoCA, the High Line, Museum 52 in Los Angeles and Galerie Almine Rech in Paris. Group exhibitions include Soundings: A Contemporary Score at the Museum of Modern Art, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Vitiello is currently a professor in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Richmond, Virginia. as well as photocells and used that material in his Bright and Dusty Thing

Stephen Vost Janssen

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Stephen Vost Janssen (or Vost-Janssen; November 1879 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Sydney, When he returned to Europe for further musical studies, he studied violin with Hans Becker Life Early years and studying The future violist came to Australia as a child among his teachers was G. Rivers Allpress (died 1918). In 1903 at a Sydney College of Music examination he received a silver medal as first prize for an original piano composition (Romance in F). In April 1903 he departed for Europe. The farewell concert was held in Newcastle King’s Hall and included some compositions of his own: the above-mentioned piano Romance and The Lifeboat (a song). In May Vost Janssen arrived in London and attended the Handel Festival. He then studied violin (with Hans Becker, brother of Hugo Becker), Among other famous musicians he attended three concerts by 12-years old Mischa Elman. Though he contracted scarlet fever and was a patient in a hospital for two months, While in Europe he published two articles in his native Newcastle newspaper describing musical life in England and Leipzig. A vast review of his non-musical impressions was published a year later, after his return to the homeland. After return to A

Stephen Whittington

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Stephen Whittington (born 13 August 1953) is an Australian composer, pianist, teacher and writer of music. Biography Whittington was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1953. He studied music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, where his piano teacher was Clemens Leske Sr. In the 1970s Whittington began performing contemporary music in Adelaide, performing music by George Crumb, Christian Wolff, Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton, James Tenney, Alvin Curran, Alan Hovhaness, Terry Jennings, Peter Garland, Claude Vivier, Morton Feldman and other contemporary composers. He promoted the music of Australian composers, some of whom were resident in Adelaide, including Quentin Grant, David Kotlowy and Raymond Chapman-Smith, both solo and with the Breakthrough Piano Quartet. In 2011 Whittington played the music of Erik Satie at a concert held in the Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide. In addition to writing an essay on Vexations, he has participated in a number of performances, including Vienna (2009), and Annecy (2010). In 1988 Whittington produced the Breakthrough Festival, a 3-day event of experimental music at the Adelaide College of Arts and Education, which pres

Stevan Hristić

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Stevan Hristić (; 19 June 1885 – 21 August 1958) was a Serbian composer, conductor, pedagogue, and music writer. A prominent representative of the late romanticist style in Serbian music of the first half of the 20th century. Biography Hristić started his music education at the Serbian Music School in Belgrade (established by St. Mokranjac) and continued his studies in Leipzig (1904–08) where he received instruction in composition from S. Krehl and R. Hofmann, and in conducting from A. Nikisch. Following a brief period of teaching at the Serbian Music School, he spent time in Rome, Moscow, and Paris (1910–12). Upon his return to Belgrade before the start of the World War I, Hristić began his conducting career at the National Theatre and resumed pedagogical activities at the Serbian Music School as well as at the Seminary. Between the two World Wars he contributed to the development of Belgrade musical life as: a founder and the first principal conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic (1923–34), conductor at the Belgrade Opera House (director 1925–35), and one of the founders and first professors of the Belgrade Music Academy (composition professor 1937–50 and president 1943–44). He w

Stevan Mokranjac

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Stevan Stojanović (, ; 9 January 1856 – 28 September 1914), known as Stevan Mokranjac (, ) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856, Mokranjac studied music at the University of Belgrade, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sapienza University of Rome and Leipzig University while in his twenties. Later, he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian string quartet, in which he played the cello. He left Belgrade at the beginning of World War I and moved to Skopje, where he died on 28 September 1914. Often called the “father of Serbian music” and the “most important figure of Serbian musical romanticism”, Mokranjac is well-regarded and much revered in Serbia. Following his death, the Serbian Music School was renamed the Mokranjac Music School in his honour. He has been featured on the country’s paper currency and that of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1964, the Mokranjac family home in Negotin was restored and turned into a museum and musical centre. Celebrations of Mokranjac’s life, known as “Mokranjac days”, have occurred annually in the town since 1965. In 1981, a larg

Steve Barakatt

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Steve Barakatt (born May 17, 1973) is a Lebanese-Canadian composer, music producer, pianist, singer and creative director. He was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 2020 and a National Ambassador of UNICEF Canada (2007-2016). Early years When he was four, he began piano lessons. Over the next 10 years he studied classical music, and then switched to jazz. Barakatt enjoyed many challenging musical experiences from an early age, including that of guest soloist with l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec when he was 13. When he was 16, he became fascinated by composition, arranging and production. He studied the new technology available and soon mastered all the intricacies of music programming. So much so that the Japanese firm Roland invited him to present their new products at the 1992 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Barakatt has been invited to appear on various recordings and live performances with many artists and ensembles from the Alexandrov Ensemble (Red Army Choir) to the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. A true passionate artist, Barakatt enjoys meeting musicians and exploring all styles of music. Recording artist Barakatt recorded his first solo album, Double Joie,

Steve Burke (composer)

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Steve Burke is a British video game composer, sound designer and voice actor. He is mostly known for his work at the British video game developer Rare. Background and career Burke was involved with music from early age. At home his family had a piano, which Burke played nearly every day. He also was playing the clarinet at Manx Youth Orchestra. Aged 20, Burke moved to London and studied at music branch of King’s College London. Then, he graduated from Royal College of Music with a master’s degree. At college, Burke often went to film recording sessions where he met such the masters of orchestra such as John Williams and Michael Kamen. After college he was composing for films about a year before he was recruited by video game giant Rare in early 2001. He firstly provided additional music for Star Fox Adventures, but his first major and most successful work at the studio was the soundtrack for 2005 game Kameo: Elements of Power. The soundtrack was scored with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The game’s music was well received and was nominated for several awards. He also scored Viva Piñata (with Grant Kirkhope), Jetpac Refuelled, Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise (with David Wis

Steve Fiset

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Steve Fiset (15 December 1946 – 7 November 2015) was a Québécois singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Biography Steve Fiset was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada In 1965, Fiset founded the duo Jean et Steve with Jean Lévesque, which sang French and American folk songs and some of their own compositions while playing the guitar. They relocated to Montreal in 1966 and performed as the opening act at the Patriote for one year and a half. In early 1967, they won a trophy for the best band having performed in the Patriote during the year. They recorded their first disc under Yvan Dufresne. Their song “C’est ainsi que va l’amour” won an award at the 1968 Festival du disque. On the same year, their song La banda was successful and they performed as the opening act for Èva’s show at the Place des Arts. from 1970 to 1973. His singing career reached its pinnacle in summer 1970 with the very successful song “Les chemins d’été” written by Luc Plamondon and André Gagnon. from cardiac arrest. Discography Filmography Footnotes References

Steve Gunderson (actor)

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Steve Gunderson is an American actor, singer, composer, arranger and playwright. As an actor, he has appeared off-Broadway, with regional theatre companies, and on film. As a composer, arranger and/or playwright, his works include Suds: The Rockin’ 60s Musical Soap Opera, Back to Bacharach and David, Dixie Highway, an adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and music for the TV series Romancing America. Career Gunderson made his off-Broadway debut as Daniel Buchanan in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene with the Equity Library Theatre in 1982. In 1983 he performed in the off-Broadway musical revue I’ll Die If I Can’t Live Forever by Joyce Stoner, and in 1987 he portrayed Joseph Keyston in Simon Gray’s play Butley at The Courtyard Playhouse (39 Grove Street, New York, NY). In 1991 he portrayed Sparky in Forever Plaid at the Triad Theatre. Gunderson co-created an original cabaret show with actress Melinda Gilb titled The Melinda and Steve Show, for which he arranged extant musical material by other composers and wrote original music. Cabaret critic Bob Harrington wrote the following in his Back Stage review: Melinda Gilb and Steve Gunderson exhibit a very limited range: from very funny to outrageous

Steve Horowitz

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Steven Michael Horowitz (born October 3, 1964) is an American composer, musician, producer, audio engineer, author, and teacher from Brooklyn, New York. Horowitz is the bassist for the experimental music group, The Code International, who has been creating and releasing album-format music since 1993. Since 2017, Horowitz has been an active lecturer of music composition and music for visual media (games, film and television) at San Francisco State University. He has spoken on the subject of music composition and video game audio at various American universities including New York University and CalArts. Game Audio Horowitz is a long-standing audio director of Nickelodeon Digital, In 2013, under partnership with fellow CalArts alumni Scott Looney, Horowitz founded the Game Audio Institute. The venture was created to develop and propagate video game audio-focused educational framework, and materials to private individuals and various accredited universities, respectively. The following year, the duo authored the interactive audio textbook The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games. * 2003: Broadcast Design award for audio direction on Max And Ruby To

Steve Martland

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Steve Martland (10 October 1954 – 7 May 2013) was an English composer. He helped to curate the Factory Classical label of Factory Records, featuring contemporary British composers. Life and music Martland was born in Liverpool, and studied composition at Liverpool University and in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen. He worked almost exclusively with artists outside classical institutions—Dutch and American groups, freelance musicians and especially his own Steve Martland Band which toured his music internationally. He also worked with the King’s Singers and Evelyn Glennie for whom he wrote Street Songs. Martland was composer in residence at the ETNA Music Festival in Sicily in 2006 and 2007. His music was published by Schott Music. Usually amplified, muscular and powerfully rhythmic, his music was extensively choreographed: Dance Works commissioned and premièred by London Contemporary Dance Theatre has received many new productions around the world, and Remix was awarded the SACD Prize for Video Dance Choreography Music after being choreographed for BBC TV by Aletta Collins. His Principia was adopted as the theme music for the BBC radio programme The Music Machine. Dance Works

Steve Porcaro

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Steven Maxwell Porcaro (born September 2, 1957) is an American keyboardist, synth programmer, songwriter, film & television composer, and founding member of the rock band Toto, which he founded with his brother, drummer Jeff Porcaro, and later included their brother Mike Porcaro on bass. He has won three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year for “Rosanna” and Album of the Year for Toto IV, and three nominations. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Porcaro brothers were in constant demand as session musicians, appearing on records for artists including Steely Dan, Don Henley, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Boz Scaggs, Seals and Croft, Warren Zevon, Paul Simon, Yes, and Pink Floyd. He was also a member of Chris Squire’s short-lived band, The Chris Squire Experiment, in 1992. Early life Porcaro was born in Connecticut. Like his brothers Jeff and Mike Porcaro, Steve started out as a drummer under the tutelage of his father, legendary jazz drummer and educator Joe Porcaro, who played with Frank Sinatra, Stan Getz, Rosemary Clooney, Marvin Gaye, and Madonna and played on hundreds of TV and film scores including: The Wild Bunch, Edward Scissorhands, Dances With Wolves and I Dream of J

Steve Race (musician)

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Stephen Russell Race (1 April 192122 June 2009) was an English composer, pianist and radio and television presenter. Early life He was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the son of a lawyer, Russell Race, who died in 1926. Race learned the piano from the age of five. He was educated (1932–37) at Lincoln School, where he formed his first jazz group, which included a young Neville Marriner, later a major figure in the world of classical music. At sixteen, he attended the Royal Academy of Music, studying composition under Harry Farjeon and William Alwyn. His brother Philip, a solicitor, was a Methodist preacher, and worked with the British Council of Churches, from 1990 known as Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. Career After leaving the academy, Race (encouraged by the classical music critic of the News Chronicle, Scott Goddard) wrote occasional dance band reviews for Melody Maker and, in 1939, joined the Harry Leader dance band as pianist, succeeding Norrie Paramor. Race joined the Royal Air Force in 1941, and formed a jazz/dance quintet. After the Second World War, he began a long and productive career with the BBC, where his ready wit, musicianship and broad musical knowledge m

Steve Reich

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Reich was born in New York City to Jewish parents, the Broadway lyricist June Sillman and Leonard Reich. When he was one year old, his parents divorced, and Reich divided his time between New York and California. He is the half-brother of writer Jonathan Carroll. He was given piano lessons as a child and describes growing up with the “middle-class favorites”, having no exposure to music written before 1750 or after 1900. At the age of 14 he began to study music in earnest, after hearing music from the Baroque period and earlier, as well as music of the 20th century. Reich studied drums with Roland Kohloff in order to play jazz. While attending Cornell University, he minored in music and graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in Philosophy. Reich’s B.A. thesis was on Ludwig Wittgenstein; later he would set texts by that philosopher to music in Proverb (1995) and You Are (variations) (2006). For a year following graduation, Reich studied composition privately with Hall Overton before he enrolled at Juilliard to work with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti (1958–1961). Subsequently, he attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud (1961–1963) and earned a master’s degree in composition. At Mills, Reich composed Melodica for melodica and tape, which appeared in 1986 on the three-LP release Music from Mills. Reich worked with the San Francisco Tape Music Center along with Pauline Oliveros, Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick, Phil Lesh and Terry Riley. He was involved with the premiere of Riley’s In C and suggested the use of the eighth note pulse, which is now standard in performance of the piece.

Steve Tittle

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John Stephen Tittle (20 May 1935 – 25 September 2024) was a Canadian composer and music educator. Biography Tittle was born in Willard, Ohio on 20 May 1935. He studied composition at Kent State University with Harold Miles, John White and Fred Coulter, and at University of Wisconsin–Madison with Hilmar Luckhardt, Robert Crane and Burt Levy. He was a school music teacher 1962–65 in Ohio, and his early performance experience was as a trumpet player in US Navy bands (including the USS Iowa BB-61 ship’s band) and in ensembles in Ohio and Wisconsin. In 1970 he joined the faculty of Dalhousie University, where until 1994 he was associate professor of composition and theory. Founder and co-designer of the Dalhousie Experimental-Electronic Sound Studio, he also inaugurated an improvisation ensemble, Murphy’s Law ensemble, which has evolved into the new music ensemble. He was a 1971 charter member, secretary and artistic director (1981–6) of NOVA MUSIC(“inNOVAtions in MUSIC”, an ensemble which preceded Murphy’s Law by two years) and in 1989, together with several other Halifax professional musicians, created its successor, Upstream. In these enterprises, and in numerous solo and ensemble ap

Steve Willaert

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Steve Willaert is a Belgian composer, arranger, musician and producer. Biography Since the eighties, Steve Willaert composed music for Belgian radio and television-shows. In 1993 he released a solo album called Musical Regards. He wrote the score for the French movie Le Golden Boy (1996). A year later, he did the orchestrations and arrangements for the movie When The Light Comes (1997) by director Stijn Coninx (Daens). In his home country, he regularly is musical director of great television shows. Since 2001, he is VTM’s musical director for their annual Christmas Parade. In 2003 he did orchestrations for 50 years TV, Eurosong live on stage in the Sportpalais Antwerp organized by the national broadcast (VRT). He toured as musical director and arranger with the Belgian artists Will Tura, Jo Lemaire, Axelle Red and Nathalia. He did arrangements for major orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Beethoven Academy, Philharmonic orchestra of Prague and the Flemish Radio Orchestra (VRO). By his experience with these orchestras and the use of acoustic, electronic instruments and computers, Willaert had the opportunity to collaborate

Steven Bryant (composer)

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Steven Bryant (born May 28, 1972, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American composer and conductor. His catalog of works includes pieces for orchestra, wind ensemble, electronics, and chamber music. Bryant states: “I strive to write music that leaps off the stage (or reaches out of the speakers) to grab you by the collar and pull you in. Whether through a relentless eruption of energy, or the intensity of quiet contemplation, I want my music to give you no choice, and no other desire, but to listen.” Biography Steven Bryant has studied composition with John Corigliano at The Juilliard School, Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas, and W. Francis McBeth at Ouachita Baptist University. With Frank Ticheli as his mentor, Bryant helped co-compose “Stomp” by Ticheli. Bryant’s music has been performed by numerous ensembles across North America, Europe, and East Asia. His first orchestral work, Loose Id for Orchestra, hailed by celebrated composer Samuel Adler as “orchestrated like a virtuoso,” was premiered by the Juilliard Symphony and is featured on a CD released by the Bowling Green Philharmonia on Albany Records. Alchemy in Silent Spaces, a new large-scale work commissioned by J

Steven Gellman

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Steven Gellman (born 16 September 1947) is a Canadian composer, pianist and professor. He has been commissioned to write works for the Besançon International Music Festival, the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic, McGill University, Musica Camerata, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Opera Lyra, the Pierrot Ensemble, the Stratford Festival, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra among others. Since 1976 he has taught music composition and theory at the University of Ottawa. Early life He was born in Toronto. Gellman began his musical training there with Samuel Dolin with whom he studied piano and music composition. He began his career as a concert pianist while still a teenager, first drawing acclaim for his 1964 performance of his own piano concerto with the CBC Symphony Orchestra. For that composition he won the BMI Student Composer Award. A performance later that year at Expo 86 in Vancouver, featured the Vancouver Symphony. Further performances followed, at the Festival de Lanaudiere with the Orchestre Metropolitan de Montreal and in Ottawa with the Ottawa Symphony. Composed with funding from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Cou

Steven Gerber

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Steven Roy Gerber (September 28, 1948, in Washington, D. C. – May 28, 2015, in New York City) was an American composer of classical music. He attended Haverford College, graduating in 1969 at the age of twenty. He then attended Princeton University with a fellowship to study musical composition. Biography and career Steven Gerber’s works include the contrapuntal Fantasy for Solo Violin, which has been recorded on both the CRI and Naxos labels, and Piano Trio, commissioned by the Hans Kindler Foundation. His composition teachers included Robert Parris, James K. Randall, Earl Kim, and Milton Babbitt. His early works are in a free atonal style. During his years as a graduate student, he wrote serial and non-twelve-tone works, such as the a cappella choral works “Dylan Thomas Settings” and “Illuminations” (Rimbaud), and throughout the remainder of the 1970s most of his works were twelve-tone. Beginning in the early 1980s, he abandoned twelve-tone composition, with rare exceptions, and his music became much more tonal, for example in his Piano Sonata. Since then his music remained largely tonal, sometimes extremely chromatic, sometimes diatonic. His music has been reviewed in The New Yo

Steven Mackey

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Steven “Steve” Mackey (born February 14, 1956) is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator. Biography As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey’s compositions are influenced by rock and jazz, though in an avant-garde vein. He favors the electric guitar and frequently performs his own compositions for the instrument, which include a concerto for electric guitar and orchestra (Tuck and Roll) and two works for electric guitar and string quartet (Physical Property and Troubadour Songs). As an electric guitar soloist, he has performed with the Kronos Quartet (Short Stories), the Arditti Quartet, New World Symphony, Dutch Radio Symphony, and London Sinfonietta. Among Mackey’s notable awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, two awards from the Kennedy Center for the performing arts, and the Stoeger Prize for Chamber Music by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Miami performing arts center acknowledged his contributions to orchestral music with a special career achievement award, the Koussevitzky Foundation

Steven Price (composer)

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Steven Price (born 22 April 1977) is an English film composer, best known for scoring Gravity, which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Before making his debut as a composer with Attack the Block, he worked on the music department for various notable films, such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Batman Begins, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Early life and education Price’s passion for music began early: a guitarist from the age of five, he went on to achieve a First Class degree in Music from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Following graduation, he went to work in the London studio of Gang of Four guitarist/producer Andy Gill, for whom he would program, contribute string arrangements, and play on albums alongside artists such as Michael Hutchence and Bono. Career Price went on to work as a programmer, arranger, and performer with film music composer Trevor Jones. He provided additional music for projects such as Roger Donaldson’s Thirteen Days; Stephen Norrington’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Frank Coraci’s Around the World in 80 Days; the television series Dinotopia; and Tamra Davis’ Crossroads, on wh

Steven Richman

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Steven Richman is a GRAMMY Award-nominated American conductor and writer. He is music director of Harmonie Ensemble/New York, which he founded in 1979, and the Dvořák Festival Orchestra of New York. Career Conductor Steven Richman’s highly varied repertoire spans classical, jazz, and more for orchestra, chamber orchestra, symphonic jazz, big band, chamber- and wind ensemble. Richman and Harmonie Ensemble/New York are recipients of a GRAMMY Award nomination, as well as winners of the Lincoln Center Community Arts Award, WQXR Action for the Arts Award, and Classical Recording Foundation Award at Carnegie Hall. He has conducted 14 CDs, including a Toscanini 150th Anniversary Tribute comprising works by Rossini, Bizet/Toscanini, Tchaikovsky, Waldteufel/Toscanini, and Verdi, released in October 2017 on the Bridge Records label, with notes by Toscanini scholar Harvey Sachs. Richman’s versatility is reflected in his conducting a wide variety of classical and jazz performances and recordings ranging from composers including Gershwin, Handel, Stravinsky, Copland, and Dvořák to Henry Mancini, Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn, and Gil Evans/Miles Davis. Richman has conducted at all of New York'

Steven Sametz

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Steven Sametz (born January 27, 1954) is an American conductor and composer. He has been hailed as “one of the most respected choral composers in America”. Since 1979, he has been on the faculty of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he holds the Ronald J. Ulrich Chair in Music and is Director of Choral Activities and is founding director of the Lehigh University Choral Union. Since 1998, he has served as Artistic Director of the professional a cappella ensemble, The Princeton Singers. He is also the founding director of the Lehigh University Summer Choral Composers’ Forum. In 2012, he was named Chair of the American Choral Directors Association Composition Advisory Committee. Early training, education and influences Sametz’s earliest piano works date from the age of six. During junior high and high school years in his native Westport, Connecticut, he began to write for choirs and chamber ensembles and undertook large-scale scoring of works for band and orchestra with encouragement of his teachers. Summer studies at the Amherst Music Center (Amherst, Maine) focused on piano, viola, voice, baritone horn and composition. He continued to compose during his undergraduat

Steven Stucky

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Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Life and career Steven Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he studied music in the public schools and, privately, viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and composition with Macon Sumerlin. At Baylor University, he studied composition with Richard Willis, and conducting with Daniel Sternberg. He studied composition with Karel Husa at Cornell. Stucky wrote commissioned works for many of the major American orchestras, including Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and St. Paul. Steven Stucky was long associated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was resident composer 1988–2009 (the longest such affiliation in American orchestral history); he was host of the New York Philharmonic’s Hear & Now series 2005–09; and he was Pittsburgh Symphony Composer of the Year for the 2011–12 season. For Pittsburgh, he composed Silent Spring, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s epochal book of the same ti

Stewart Wallace

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Stewart Wallace (born 1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American composer and cantor. Biography The son of Marsha J. Wallace and Dr. Sidney Wallace, Wallace is one of three siblings in his family. Wallace attended the University of Texas at Austin. Without formal training in composition, His opera The Bonesetter’s Daughter is based on the novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who wrote the opera’s libretto. The Bonesetter’s Daughter premiered at San Francisco Opera in 2008. In 2010, Wallace was in a bicycle accident that resulted in traumatic brain injury and prevented him from composing, for a five-year period. Wallace and Korie prepared a revised 2-act version of Harvey Milk for Opera Parallèle in San Francisco, who jointly commissioned the revision with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, with an intended premiere performance run in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the postponement of this scheduled San Francisco production. The revised 2-act version of Harvey Milk received its premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on 11 June 2022. Wallace married the American television journalist Dianne Festa in 1999. References External links * Official website of Stewart Wallace * Schott M

Strat Andriotis

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Strat Andriotis (born April 21, 1963) is a Canadian-based jazz guitarist and composer. Life and career Born in Elefsina, Greece, Andriotis began playing the piano at a young age taking classical piano lessons. Later on, he started playing the guitar with rock bands. In the early 1990s, Andriotis started recording albums with pianist Tom Carney. His first album titled First was released shortly after. All three of the guitarist’s awards were handed out at the Saturday event, also held at Theatre Aquarius. In 2016, he released another album titled Less Off Patient with pianist Jeff Vidov and violinist Adrianna Lee. In 2018, Andriotis came up with a new album titled Night Manager featuring jazz rock violin icon Jerry Goodman and pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. In 2020, he released a new album titled Remember Me At Twilight. Discography Albums See also * Jerry Goodman * Gonzalo Rubalcaba References External links * Official website

Stravinsky Fountain

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The Stravinsky Fountain (French: La Fontaine Stravinsky) is a whimsical public fountain ornamented with sixteen works of sculpture, moving and spraying water, representing the works of composer Igor Stravinsky. It was created in 1983 by sculptors Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, and is located on Place Stravinsky, next to the Centre Pompidou, in Paris. Description The Stravinsky Fountain is a shallow basin of 580 m2 located in Place Stravinsky, between the Centre Pompidou and the Church of Saint-Merri. Within the basin are sixteen works of sculpture inspired by the compositions of Igor Stravinsky. The black mechanical pieces of sculpture are by Jean Tinguely; the brightly colored works are by Niki de Saint Phalle. The sculptures in the fountain represent: *L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird) *La Clef de Sol (The Musical Key of G) *La Spirale (The Spiral) *L’Elephant (The Elephant) *Le Renard (The Fox) *Le Serpent (The Serpent) *La Grenouille (The Frog) *La Diagonale (The Diagonal) *La Mort (Death) *La Sirène (The Mermaid) *Le Rossignol (The Nightingale) *L’Amour (Love) *La Vie (Life) *Le Cœur (The Heart) *Le Chapeau de Clown (The Clown’s Hat) *Ragtime (Ragtime) The basin covers s

Stu Gardner

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Stuart Gardner is an American musician and composer. He is known for his collaborations with Bill Cosby, and for co-writing “Kiss Me”, the theme song of Cosby’s sitcom The Cosby Show. He produced the album A House Full of Love: Music from The Cosby Show, and was the musical director of Cos, The Cosby Show and its spin-off, A Different World. Career Stu Gardner appeared in the 1967 film Point Blank as the singer in the nightclub scene, singing, “Mighty Good Times”, which was written by him, and appears on the film’s soundtrack album. In 1971, Stu had a record album out, Big Mouth which was produced by David Briggs. Among the musicians playing on the album were Kent Sprague and Gary Stovall. It was released on Spindizzy Records Z 31024 in 1971. All of the songs were composed by Stu Gardner except for “Wake Up Little Girl” which was composed by Sprague. Gardner’s composition “Where the Master Lives” was released on a single. Personal life As of 2012, Gardner lives in Richmond, Virginia, with his wife Gloria. References External links * *

Stu Phillips (composer)

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Stuart Phillips (born September 9, 1929) is an American composer of film scores and television series theme music, conductor and record producer. He is best known for composing the theme tunes to the television series McCloud, Battlestar Galactica, and Knight Rider. Biography Career Phillips studied music at The High School of Music & Art in New York City, New York, and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. While at Eastman, he began arranging music for the Rochester Civic Orchestra. In 1958, Phillips began composing for Columbia Pictures’ television and record subsidiaries. He founded Colpix Records and produced high-charting hits for James Darren, Nina Simone, The Skyliners, Shelley Fabares, and The Monkees. He also furnished music for Columbia’s television series, including The Donna Reed Show with Fabares and The Monkees. Phillips branched out into motion-picture work, and scored Columbia’s 1964 movie, Ride the Wild Surf. In the mid-1960s, he worked for Capitol Records and created, produced and arranged for the easy listening studio orchestra the Hollyridge Strings. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Phillips continued scoring films and television series includ

Stu Phillips (country singer)

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Stu Phillips (January 19, 1933 – December 25, 2025) was a Canadian-American country singer from Montreal, Quebec. Stu and his wife Aldona operated Long Hollow Winery in Goodlettsville, near Nashville. He was also an ordained Minister in the Episcopal Church. He was a long-time host of CBC’s Red River Jamboree. He was also a standing member of the Grand Ole Opry. Stu Phillips was part of RCA and featured on their The Best of Country and West volumes 1 and 2 with “Bracero” and “The Last Thing on My Mind”. Phillips was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993. He was ranked #29 in RPM Magazine’s top 57 Canadian Country artists from 1964 to 1994. Prior to his death, he had been the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry for nearly a year. He died in Nashville on December 25, 2025, at the age of 92. Discography Albums Singles References External links * Stu Phillips’ Grand Ole Opry member page * * Entry at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca *

Stuart MacRae (composer)

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Stuart MacRae (born 12 August 1976) is a Scottish composer. Education and career Stuart MacRae was born in Inverness, Scotland. He studied at Durham University with Philip Cashian and Michael Zev Gordon, and subsequently with Simon Bainbridge and Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. By his mid-twenties he was writing astonishingly original and powerfully expressive works, and was receiving commissions from organisations such as the BBC and the London Sinfonietta as well as being appointed Composer-in-Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Often inspired by aspects of nature and humans’ relationship to it, MacRae’s style draws on various strands of European modernism, including the music of Igor Stravinsky, Elliott Carter, Iannis Xenakis, Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies. Key works * The Witch’s Kiss (1997; chamber ensemble) * Violin Concerto (2001) * Ancrene Wisse (2002; choir, orchestra) * Motus (2003; chamber ensemble) * Echo and Narcissus (2006; chamber ensemble/dance) * Birches (2007; chamber orchestra) * Gaudete (2008; soprano and orchestra) * Earth (2010; orchestra) * Prometheus Symphony (2019; soprano and bass-baritone soloists

Stuart Mitchell

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Stuart Mitchell (21 December 1965 – August 2018) was a Scottish pianist and composer who was born in Edinburgh and who is best known for his Seven Wonders Suite (2001). The Seven Wonders Suite has been recorded by The Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mario Klemens. A performance of part of the suite was performed in The Dvorak Hall in Prague in 2005. This major symphonic work has placed Mitchell in The Classic FM Hall of Fame since 2005, and is regularly requested by their listeners. Stuart Mitchell was the son of pianist and composer Thomas J. Mitchell. In 2005, the Mitchells received media coverage from Reuters, ITN, BBC, and CNN/Fox News when they claimed to have deciphered a musical code carved into the ceiling design of Rosslyn Chapel. In 2008, Mitchell released the first in his series of works called DNA Variations, music translated from Ancestral DNA sequences of various species and Fly – Orchestral Suite in 2016 was based upon the mitochondrial DNA music of birds and winged beings. The Seven Wonders Suite was voted 181 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2017. In the 2023 chart, the suite had reached a new peak position of 82. Mitchell died of lung cancer in August 2018, a

Stuart Saunders Smith

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Stuart Saunders Smith (16 March 1948 - 3 June 2024) was an American composer and percussionist. After having studied composition and music theory at three music institutions, Smith was based in Vermont, United States, with his wife Sylvia. He produced almost 200 compositions, half of which were written for percussion instruments with a focus on the vibraphone. Life Smith was born in Portland, Maine. He started studying composition and percussion at six years old with Charles Newcomb, who was previously a vaudeville performer and exposed him to many musical styles e.g. Latin music, waltz, Dixieland. Smith has attributed a “physical” form of music composition to Newcomb. From the age of 13, Smith began performing publicly in clubs and dance venues. At the age of 18, Smith went on to Berklee School of Music where he furthered his studies in counterpoint, harmony and musical arrangements. He continued to study percussion and composition at Hartt College of Music from 1967 to 1972. He received his DMA in music composition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1977, where he studied under Herbert Brün, Salvatore Martirano, and Benjamin Johnston. Alongside Newcomb, his other p

Styalz Fuego

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Kaelyn Behr, known professionally as Styalz Fuego, is an Australian music producer, songwriter, vocalist and artist based in Melbourne. Styalz is renowned for his diverse production and songwriting, and most known for his eclectic take on hip-hop, electronic, R&B and K-Pop. Styalz’s accomplishments include the 2017 ARIA Song of the Year, 2012 ARIA Producer of the Year, 2013 APRA Breakthrough Songwriter Award and 2016 and 2018 APRA Most Played Australian Work awards and integral involvement in many multi-platinum, ARIA award-winning projects across his career in Australia, UK, USA and South Korea. He has been based in Melbourne, Australia since 2003. Early career In 2007, Styalz produced Chamillionaire’s hit “Not a Criminal” featuring Kelis, which received negative reviews for its lacklustre lyrics and a pointless Kelis cameo. Around this time, he also began to remix a number of songs for artists including Sneaky Sound System, Savage, and Chris Lilley’s Summer Heights High character Mr. G. Career In 2013, Fuego co-wrote the song “Astronaut” for UK singer/songwriter Joel Compass, which was added to BBC 1. Styalz was involved in a string of multi-platinum singles from Peking Duk inclu