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Growing up in South
Carolina and Alabama, and then living in New York,
then London and now finally Los Angeles, Stephen
has had a fairly adventurous background.
Stephen received a Bachelor’s
Degree in Music Composition from the Manhattan School
of Music, in New York. in 1994.
At 22, Stephen then
became the assistant conductor of the New York Youth
Symphony, where he made his Carnegie Hall debut in
1995, conducting Aaron Copland's ballet suite, "Rodeo" to
a packed house.
He has written
a full-length musical "ONE LAND" and a
film score for the feature-length independent film "WELCOME
STRANGER", which
was recorded at 20th Century Fox, Los Angeles.
Early in his career,
Stephen was hired by Tony Award-winning orchestrator
William D. Brohn to
assist in the orchestrations of Broadway shows including
"Crazy For You,"
"The Red Shoes,"
"The Secret Garden,"
and the Lincoln Center performances of "110
Degrees in the Shade."
From 1995 to 2001,
Stephen was Music Associate in the offices of Cameron
Mackintosh, LTD, in London, where he assisted
in the production, orchestration and rehearsals
of
"Miss Saigon"
(at Drury Lane Theatre), "The
Witches of Eastwick" (at Drury Lane
and Prince of Wales Theatres), and "Les
Miserables" (at Palace Theatre and
the Tenth Anniversary Concert). From the inception
to
the completion of "Martin
Guerre" (Prince Edward Theatre, U. K.
and U. S. national tours) he worked as assistant
to
the composer, Claude-Michel
Schonberg, taking-down and notating the original
music and preparing it for rehearsals. He also
worked
on the music of "The
Fix" (directed by Sam
Mendes and performed at Donmar Warehouse).
While in London, he
did the orchestral adaptation of the current
version of
"Oliver"
for Cameron Mackintosh's productions, based
upon
William D. Brohn's original West-End orchestration.
Stephen also orchestrated sections of "Hey,
Mr. Producer", commemorating the career
of Cameron Mackintosh, (performed at the Lycium
Theatre
and featured as a broadcast on many public television
stations). His most recent orchestrations for
theatre
were accomplished with Mr. Brohn for the hit show,
"My Fair Lady"
(directed by Trevor Nunn, performed at Royal National
Theatre and Drury Lane Theatre).
"Gone With the Wind" (directed
by Trevor Nunn, performed at the New London Theatre).
He was musical director
of the musical by Jimmy Buffett and Herman
Wouk, "Don't
Stop the Carnival".
Since moving to Los
Angeles in 2001, moved
to Los Angeles, he has orchestrated and or conducted
the following Feature Films:
IRON MAN - 2008
Incredible Hulk - 2008
Last House On the Left
- 2008
Open Season 2 - 2008
Fly Me To The Moon
- 2008
American Pie - Beta
House - 2008
Elizabeth: The Golden
Age - 2007
28 Weeks Later - 2007
Sunshine - 2007
SpiderMan 3 (VG) -
2007
FireHouse Dog - 2007
Paragraf 78 - 2007
The Nativity Story
- 2006
Open Season - 2006
Material Girls - 2006
Miami Vice - 2006
Basic Instinct 2 -
2006
Take the Lead - 2006
Just Friends - 2005
Just Like Heaven -
2005
The Man - 2005
Wedding Crashers -
2005
Blade: Trinity - 2004
Sideways - 2004
Mean Girls - 2003
Lilo and Stich (composer
as well) - 2003
Freaky Friday - 2003
and many more...
In 2006 he began to
return to musical theatre writing a demo for "Shrek
the Musical". You can find the demo on the audio
page of this website.
Stephen currently has
several musicals he is composing in development. |
