Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Stephen's music is being used in a theater prodcution at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood, California. This theater does very edgy, uncompromised theater art. It is a small theater with a very committed and talented group of actors under the direction of Jordan Cole (Zombie Joe).
The current production, which is the fourth to use Stephen's music, is entitled
Urban Death Tortured Abyss. It runs on Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30PM from April 25 - May 17. This production is not for the feint of heart, however if you have a taste for very dark humor and very pure theater, you may find this production to be a rewarding and unique experience. The theater is at 4850 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood CA. 91601. For Reservations call 818-202-4201.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Metaphors and Contrasts, Stephen's recently commissioned woodwind quintet was premiered on April 13, 2008 at Shumei Hall in Pasadena, California. It was performed by Midnight Winds, an extraordinary young ensemble who are all recent graduates of the USC Thornton School of Music. The new work received a very enthusiastic reception with offers for another performance and recording coming at the reception following the performance.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Stephen has been awarded a CAP grant from the American Music Center. This was given for his recently commissioned and newly completed woodwind quintet entitled,
Metaphors and Contrasts. The premiere of the work is coming on April 13, 2008 at the Shumei Arts Council in Pasadena, Califronia. It will be performed by Midnight Winds, an exraordinary group of young players who are all recent graduates of the USC Thornton School of Music. Please use this URL for the program and a map: www.shumeiarts.org/events.html
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Stephen is currently working with composer/arranger, Lee Holdridge on six arrangements for Neil Sedaka. The music which consists of songs by Neil Sedaka, will be performed on his upcoming Australian Tour. The arrangements are being written for large symphony orchestra with a pop rhythm section.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
On very short notice, Stephen has been informed that his piano trio,
Anticipation of Light, will be performed twice over this coming weekend by the Jung Trio. This an excellent group consisting of three Korean sisters who are virtuoso players and are all Yale graduates in performance. They have been playing together since they were very young children. The program also includes trios by Beethoven and Dvorak.
Here's the info:
The performances are January 19, 2pm at
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
134O Eleventh Street
Manhattan Beach, C 90266
(free admission)
and January 20, 2pm at
Greystone Estate - Living Room
905 Loma Vista Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tickets: $20/Adults; $15/Seniors; Students/Children
Purchase: Roxbury Park Clubhouse: 310.285.6850
Info: Greystone Office: 310.285.6830
*followed by light reception and tour of first floor of Greystone Mansion
Friday, October 19, 2007
Stephen has been commissioned by the Shumei Arts Council of America to write a woodwind quintet. The new work will be premiered at the Shumei Auditorium in Pasadena, California on April 13, 2008 at 2:00PM. It will be performed by Midnight Winds who are an extraoridnary group of virtuoso wind players and are all recent graduates of the USC Thorton School of Music.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
The Fleisher Collection in Philadelphia, which is the world's largest library of orchestral scores and parts, accepted two of Stephen's scores: Finale from Two Together, an American Folk Music Suite" and "The Family of God" The library makes the scores and parts available to orchestras around the world for performances.
The library has a weekly radio show called "Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection". For their Labor Day broadcast, they chose "Finale" to be part of the show. Below is text from a bulletin that was sent to conductors all over the world about the broadcast:
Folk tunes have always played a big part in music we call “American,” and the contemporary composer Stephen Cohn has composed a lovely work at the request of a modern company, not unlike Strauss did 140 years ago. For a series of family-health-oriented CDs, Cohn put together a suite for various combinations of instruments, culminating in the orchestral Finale we hear today. It’s expertly done, and the Emmy-winning composer uses the instruments efficiently, showing the prowess he acquired writing for film, television, and Motown Records, as well as for ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet. Strauss, we think, would be proud.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Les Amis Musicalles, a trio consisting of Cindy Ellis, flute, Jeanne Strocki, violin and Jannet Lakatos, viola, commissioned Stephen to write five arrangments for them. The chosen works are: Gnossiene No.1 and Sonatine Bureaucratique by Satie, Pavanne pour une Infante Defunte by Ravel and two selections for Histoire du Tango by Piazzolla.
Stephen has just completed two arrangements for Meixican artist Tassinari who is a protege of Placido Domingo. The arrangments were written for large orchestra, children's choir, solo piano and vocalist and were recorded in Bulgaria. Information on the release of Tassinari's new CD will be coming soon. Other arrangements on the CD were done by Lee Holdridge.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
The Coro Citta Di Roma (Chorus of the City of Rome) has asked Stephen to compose a new acapella choral work for their upcoming CD to be recorded later this year. The choir is directed by Mauro Marchetti. Along with their classical concert performances, this choir is the ensemble which Ennio Morricone uses for his film scores and his concert performances. The new CD will feature works by American Choral Composers.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Working with Lee Holdridge, Stephen has just completed work on arrangements for the Quebe Sisters Band to play with the Reno Philharmonic. The work consisted of orchestral settings of four songs to accompany the groups performance with 3 singers who also play violins, guitar and bass.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Stephen has just completed giving a seminar at the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios. The title of the seminar is: A Director's Guide to Working with a Composer. As the title suggests, this is a class given to film directors from the point of view of a composer. It is an idea that Stephen has had for several years and was inspired by his observation that directors need to know how composers work in order to make effective plans for the scoring their films and in order to give composers good direction. After designing and teaching a class at UCLA Extension for six years intended for composers entitled, "Anatomy of a Film Score", Stephen noticed that this class was also being taken by directors - the light went on
Friday, December 08, 2006
On November 16, Stephen gave a concert/lecture presentation at the Shumei Arts Council Auditorium in Pasadena, Califronia for 350 third grade children. The presentation entitled "The Magical Creation of a New Piece of Music", was aimed at demonstrating how a composer conceives of and writes a new work. Stephen used a trio for flute, viola and cello he had written recently for a friend's wedding as an example. He was fortunate enough to be able to hire three superb young musicians from the USC Thorton School of Music: Jessica Pierce, flute, Renata Van de Vyer, viola and Mia Barcia-columbo, cello.
The children were an exceptionally bright and musical group who were very attentive and asked some wonderful questions in the Q&A after the talk. It was a great experience for all involved.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
"The Family Of God" for choir and chamber orchestra was premiered at Merkin Hall, New York on November 5th.
Last year, Stephen was commissioned to write a new work for choir and chamber orchestra. The sponsoring organization, Universal Sacred Music, has a mission to create a repertoire of choral music which is spiritual but not religious.
The text was created by taking quotes from a number of religious works from various cultures and setting them along side of each other to show that they all seem to refer to the same One Source of all Life and that they all expressed the same core spiritual values. Thus, the divisions we make between us are false and contrary to what the great spiritual thinkers have been telling us since the beginning.
The ensemble consisted of thrity two voices and nine instrumentalists.
Stephen has recently completed composing and producing music for a new web site promoting a novel about to be released. The novel, entitled "Nail Through The Heart", will be published by the William Morrow Company and was written by Tomothy Hallinan who was a member of the rock and roll band which was Stephen's first professional endeavor in the music business.
The novel is a powerful and soulful mystery that takes place in Thailand. Stephen used Thai instruments samples along with western orchestral instrument samples in creating the music for the site. There are three compositions: Main Title, Rose, and The Superman Chase. Reuniting forces with Tim Hallinan, an old and valued friend, was a great inspiration for Stephen in this project.
Monday, March 27, 2006
Stephen's composition, "Finale, from Two Together, An American Folk Music Suite was performed by the Kansas City Symphony on March 25th. The concert originally scheduled for January 21 was played at the Midland Theater in Kansas City to an full capacity audience of 2,600 people. Stephen participated in the rehearsal on Friday the 24th and then attended the concert on the 25th.
The orchestra, under the direction of Timothy Hankewich, did a beautiful reading of the piece. Stephen was called to the stage for a bow and was blinded by a wall of white light as he turned to face the audience. The work was very well received.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Holiday Updates:
The Kansas City Symphony will perform "Finale" from Stephen's "American Folk Music Suite" on January 21, 2006 at the Midland Theater in K.C.. This will be a world premiere of a work that was released on a CD in 2003 and won a Parents Choice Gold Award in 2004.
Stephen received a commission from Universal Sacred Music to write a new work for choir and chamber orchestra which will be premiered in New York next October.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Stephen has just completed doing orchestrations for a "Belafonte Medley" to be performed by the Florida Orchestra and a steel band in Tampa in March. It will be conducted by Richard Kaufman. Stephen was given the steel band arrangement and asked to write parts for the orchestra. The steel band includes a vocalist who will sing the Belafonte classics. This was a particularly enjoyable job as Stephen was a big fan of Harry Belafonte as a child.
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Stephen has completed a large work for choir and organ, entitled "Requiem For An Underground Redeemer". The work, which consists of text and music by Stephen, is dedicated to Dr. Robert Gould, an important figure in Stephen's life and the lives of many. Dr. Gould passed away in 1998.
"More To Love", a new choral work in which Stephen wrote text and music has been licensed for a premiere performance by the Choral Union of the First Methodist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. The performance will take place in the spring of 2005 as a part of a concert dedicated to World Peace and will also include Stephen's composition, "Where Is Peace?"
Stephen has just completed score preparation work on "Misa Justa", a jazz mass for orchestra, choir and solists, composed by Eduardo Gutierrez del Barrio. The five movement work will be performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a part of their new symphonic jazz series on January 29, 2005. The Sibelieus notation program was used for the score and the parts. Solists include Diane Reeves, Billy Childs and Hubert Laws.
Monday, November 15, 2004
Three of Stephen's chamber works were performed in Europe during this last summer. "Eye Of Chaos" for string quartet and "Anticipation Of Light" for Violin, cello and piano were played at the International Musical Encounters of Catalonia in Ceret, France in August. "Matin Sur Les Collines De Ceret" for violin duet was performed at the Otzberg Summer Concerts in Germany in September. Below are reviews of these concerts:
>From L’Independant, Ceret, France - August 17, 2004
Review by Charles Greiveldinger-Winling
Translated from French:
"Eye of Chaos." This "Eye of Chaos" by Stephen Cohn is a magnificent work; at the beginning tense and serious with gravity and importance, overwhelming , infinitely sad ; and whose continuation becomes extraordinary - shooting pain, torn asunder. Thus it oscillates between temptations of sweetness and the dizziness of anguish, attempting to escape from present times into dark reminiscences.
"Anticipation of Light". This World Premiere of Stephen Cohn, performed by Dolly Kessner on piano, and two musicians from Amar Corde (violin and cello) brings to mind a rainy day, happy, a peaceful intimacy; certainly marked now and then by a streak of restlessness, but also of bounding insouciance, of gratitude. It closes on a suspended meditation.
>From the Otzberg Summer Concerts in Germany in September:
In the Newspaper "Darmstaedter Echo" : (translated badly from German)
...It happened not less breathtaking and was very diversified up to the interlude. Kinneret Sieradzki (Violin) together with Annette von Hehn played ?Matin sur les collines de Ceret„, a duo for violins from Stephen Cohn, a composer living in California. The first performance in Germany in the fully crowded „hall of chevaliers has been received with enthusiasm. In the short character piece, dedicated to the city of Ceret in the Pyrenees, the two violins entered in a exquisite dialogue which was performed intensively by the two women.
In the Newspaper "Main-Echo": (translated badly from German)
Sun over the Pyrenees landscape
As a First performance in Germany, Kinneret Sieradzki and Annette von Hehn presented with their violins the duo "Matin Sur Les Collines De Ceret" from Stephen Cohn . In this piece, soft and tender, the sun rises over this Pyrenees landscape in the south of France, which has impressed the composer deeply emotional who has spent some time rambling in this area - as he said. Very slowly the daybreak is raising gently whirring, until penetrating intonations in the descant are illustrating the final sunrise. Profound dreamings can be felt, which brace up for a heaviness of symphony and finally vanish weightless. Colourful melodic and free floating tonality was very well received by the audiance.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
"Matin Sur Les Collines De Ceret", a violin duet Stephen composed for the 1996 festival in Ceret, France and revised for the 2002 festival in Ceret, was performed for the first time in Germany at the Otzberger Summer Concerts on September 19. It was played by young Israeli vionist, Kinneret Sieradski along with Annette von Hehn. There were two excellent reviews from two different newspapers which will be posted on this site under "Press" on the "Home" page. The audience reaction was reported to be enthusiastic.
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Stephen and his assistant, Stephanie Wukovitz, were both invited to be composers in residence at a festival in the south of France called "The International Musical Encounters of Catalonia". Due to a series of health problems which Stephanie suffered, neither of them made the trip. However, two of Stephen's compositions were performed there on August 13. The Amar Cord String Quartet played his first quartet, "Eye Of Chaos" and members of the quartet with pianist Dolly Kessner premiered his piano trio, written for the festival, entitled "Anticipation Of Light".
Monday, July 26, 2004
Stephen and his assistant Stephanie Wukovitz have collaborated as composers in composing for another children's theater production, "The Princess and the Frog,". The production opened at Zombie Joe's Underground in the Noho Arts District on Saturday July 24 and will play Saturdays at 1:00 and 3:00PM. For more information, visit
www.zombiejoes.com; for reservations call 818-202-4120.
Monday, July 19, 2004
Stephen is currently doing score preparation for an opera. The music is being composed by Dorrance Stalvey who is head of the L.A. Country Museum of Art Music Programs. The libretto is by author, Mark Lee. The score is being notated with the use of Sibelius music notation program.
Monday, May 31, 2004
Stephen has just completed an arrangement for the Houston Symphony. The arrangement of the song "From A Distance" was a collaboration with composer Lee Holdridge and was written for tenor Ronan Tynan. It will be performed by Tynan and the Symphony on June 15 in Houston.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Stephen, along with three other Los Angeles composers, has received a Subito Grant from the
American Composers Forum for the purpose of attending The International Music Encounters Of Catalonia, a music festival in the south of France this coming August. The festival is produced by acclaimed Polish composer Joanna Bruzdowicz and was conceived to celebrate, with music, the first three countries to adopt democratic constitutions: USA, France and Poland. The other three invited composers are Don Davis (composer of the scores from the Matrix movies), Dr. Daniel Kessner (head of the composition department at Cal State Northridge) and Stephanie Wukovitz (local film and concert composer); all four will be composers in residence.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Stephen acted as copyist and score preparer for David Benoit's composition, "L.A.eXperience" which received its premiere performance under David's direction on Saturday March 13. The composition was written to be performed in sync with a film which shows the planning and constrution of the new pylons at LAX.
Stephen and his assistant Stephanie Wukovitz have collaborated as composers in creating songs for another new play, "The Sneaky Little Muffin Man," at the ZJU Theater. The children's musical production will open at Zombie Joe's Underground in the Noho Arts District on Saturday March 27. For more information, visit
www.zombiejoes.com; for reservations call 818-202-4120.
Friday, February 20, 2004
Stephen is one of five finalists, out of 126 entries from five countires, who will be flown into Forth Worth, Texas at the end of April for the finals of the "Outside The Bachs Choral Competition". His work for mixed choir and piano, "Where Is Peace?", for which he wrote both words and music, has been chosen for the finals of the contest. All five of the finalists' works will be performed by an eighty-voice choir, and a judge's prize and an audience choice prize will be awarded. All of the finalists will receive cash prizes as well as travel expenses. The itinerary also includes a panel discussion with the finalists and sight-seeing activities in Fort Worth.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Martin Perlich at KCSN will interview Stephen and play selections of his work at 3:30pm PST on January 30.
Listeners unable to receive this station on their radios at 88.5 FM can still
listen to the station via streaming audio from the KCSN website.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Stephen has been asked to be a member of The Advisory Council for The American Composers Forum, Los Angeles Chapter.
Stephen has been invited to return as Composer In Residence to the "International Musical Encounters of Catalogne", a festival held in the city of Ceret in the south of France near the border of Spain. The festival will be in August and will premiere several of Stephen's new concert works.
Sunday, November 09, 2003
Stephen and his assistant Stephanie Wukovitz have collaborated as composers in creating music for another new play, "Ali Baba And The Secret Golden Treasure," at the ZJU Theater. The children's dance production will open at Zombie Joe's Underground in the Noho Arts District on Friday November 22. For more information, visit
www.zombiejoes.com; for reservations call 818-202-4120.
Stephen has completed three new works for classical guitar as a part of his collaboration with legendary guitarist Angel Romero. The new compositions will be premiered by Angel at a concert in Atlanta, Georgia this coming spring; details of the event will be posted in the near future.
Angel and Stephen have also formed a new publishing company which will publish Stephen's compositions for Angel, as well as Angel's transcriptions for guitar which have been in demand for many years and have not been available. The compositions will soon be offered on Angel's web site,
www.angelromero.com.
Saturday, November 01, 2003
"Two Together, An American Folk Music Suite", Stephen's CD album release on the At Peace Media label, has received a
Parents Choice Gold Award. The album was recorded in Prague in the summer of 2002.
The award and review can be viewed at
the Parents Choice website.
You can also
read more about the album on
At Peace Media's website.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Stephen and his assistant Stephanie Wukovitz have collaborated as composers in providing music for a new play, "Sculptress Of Angel X". The production opened at Zombie Joe's Underground in the Noho Arts District on Friday September 19 and runs on Friday and Saturday nights through October 11. For more information visit
www.zombiejoes.com; for reservations call 818-202-4120.
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Stephen is in the final stages of completing the "American Folk Concerto For Guitar And Orchestra" composed for world acclaimed guitarist Angel Romero. The work will be premiered and recorded by Angel during the upcoming concert season. Dates and locations of the events will be anounced here in the near future.
Saturday, February 01, 2003
Stephen is very excited to announce a new musical collaboration with an old friend, Angel Romero.
Angel Romero is hailed as the Spanish maestro of the guitar. A New York Times review said "What Heifitz was to the violin, Horowitz to the piano, so is Angel Romero to the guitar. Incomparable!"
In demand for his extraordinary artistry, both musically and aesthetically as guitarist and conductor, Maestro Romero performs regularly in major cultural centers worldwide, including those in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Munich, Zurich, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. He has appeared as recitalist and soloist with such leading orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw and the Miami Symphony in Carnegie Hall.
His extensive discography includes recordings on Angel/EMI, Telarc, Seraphim, Mercury, RCA Victor Red Seal, RCA Victor Worldwide and currently Delos International. His recordings of classical guitar repertoire include works from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, with many works by Bach, Rodrigo's much loved Concierto Aranjuez, and compositions by Lalo Schifrin and Bill Conti.
In addition, Angel is notable for his activities in the movie industry. He performed the entire score for The Milagro Bean Field War, directed by Robert Redford. He composed and conducted the score for Gabriele Retes film Bienvenido-Welcome, for which he won the 1995 ARIEL (the Oscar type award for Mexico) for best score. He also performed the entire score for the film By The Sword, composed by Bill Conti.
Angel and Stephen have been friends since adolescence. They met when Stephen began studying classical guitar with Angel's legendary father Celedonio. They spent a great deal of time together, both pursuing their musical interests and socially. Stephen traveled with the Romero Family to many of their concerts and also stayed with the family on many holidays at their vacation home in Santa Barbara.
After being out of touch for a while, Angel and Stephen met again at one of Angel's concerts. Still feeling a kinship and marveling at the musical growth and success of each of their careers, Angel suggested a collaboration. He had received many requests to write film scores and although he had found time to do some of them, the demands of his concert tours had prevented him from doing more. Clearly, music written with and for a uniquely expressive soloist, such as Angel, adds extraordinary depth to the dramatic quality of a film score, as it did in "Schindler's List" and "The Red Violin". Stephen's knowledge of the guitar, along with his extensive and highly successful background as an award winning composer and orchestrator, combined with his long-standing friendship with Angel, makes the collaboration an inevitable and exciting new direction in film music.
Angel and Stephen's creative synergy and long-standing camaraderie, as well as their love of the film medium, will produce passionate and wonderful film music.
Monday, January 20, 2003
Stephen has just completed an assignment orchestrating music for Enter The Matrix, a video game based on the highly successful movie "The Matrix". The music was composed by Don Davis and will be recorded by a large orchestra during the week of January 18th.
Thursday, November 14, 2002
On November 6, 7, and 8, Stephen produced a score for the film "Charlottes Web II", a Universal/Paramount direct to video release. The score was composed by Micheal Tavera and was recorded in Prague at ICN Studio. Stephen and Michael were in Prague for a week to do the recordings; this was Michael's first trip to Prague and Stephen's third trip this year (All three trips were for for the purpose of recording music). Stephen's assistant, Stephanie Wukovitz, was proofreader for the project, which was orchestrated and copied using the Sibelius music notation program.
Thursday, October 17, 2002
In August, Stephen traveled to Europe for two projects. He was "Composer in Residence" at The International Musical Encounters Of Catalogne. At this festival in the south of France, three of his compositions were performed: a woodwind trio entitled "Evolution and Remembrance", a violin duet entitled Matin Sur Les Collines Des Ceret, and a piano piece entitled "Moods Of A Goddess". The festival was a very successful and also a very intense creative experience.
Stephen then went to Prague, where he met his assistant Stephanie Wukovitz, to record an album for At Peace Media. The album is enitled "American Folk Music Suite." It consists of six pieces for small chamber ensembles, each of which is a theme and variations on a well known American folk song. Then the suite culminates in a finale for orchestra which brings together the main themes of the suite. There is also a short orchestral overture. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Stephen edited and mixed the album with the wonderful assistance of composer and friend Daniel May at Daniel's studio in Long Beach. The album will be released by At Peace media early next year. In the meantime, the same label will release an album of holiday relaxation music that Stephen finished earlier this year, entitled "Holly and Ivy".
The work on Lalo Schrifrin's commissioned work for the Chicago Symphony is now complete.
Stephen's new assignment is to produce a film score for his friend, composer Michael Tavera. Michael and Stephen will travel to Prague for the recording sessions in early November.
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Stephen has published music by his father, Morris E. Cohn on the Sibeliusmusic.com site. Stephen's father was a successful attorney who practiced in Los Angeles. In the fifties, he was Chief Counsel for The Screen Writers Guild and defended writers who were called in front the House Un-American Activities Committee. He also worked with Frank Sinatra on the sale of Reprise Records to Warner Bros.and had many other notable accomplishments as an attorney. His real love, however, was composing music, which he did in every spare moment. He was a highly intelligent and sensitive man, and these qualities are revealed in his music. Stephen promised his father, shortly before he died, that he would attempt to get some of this music published. Two of Morris E. Cohn's piano pieces are now published on the
Sibelius Music web site. Stephen is very glad to be able to honor his father's work in this way.
Saturday, July 06, 2002
It has been a while since this page has been updated, and a lot has happened since then.
Stephen continues to work with Lalo Schifrin on Lalo's commission for the Chicago Symphony; the piece is in its final stages of completion. While this project has progressed, Stephen has also done orchestrations for composer-friend Michael Tavera on his score for "Land Before Time IX", an animated sequel which will be released by Universal Video. He has been assisted on both these projects by Stephanie Wukovitz.
Also during this period Stephen has completed a woodwind trio, "Evolution and Remembrance", and a violin duet, "Matin Sur Les Collines De Ceret". Along with a piano work entitled "Moods Of A Goddess", these pieces will be performed at a festival in Ceret (in the south of France) in August. Stephen will be composer-in-residence at this festival.
Stephen has also completed an album of Christmas relaxation music to be released on CD later this year by
AT Peace Media. He recently began work on a new CD of music for mothers and children, to be released by the same company as a part of their new expanded marketing. This album will be recorded in Prague while Stephen is in Europe in August and will make use of small orchestra and chamber ensembles.
Stephen has moved from North Hollywood to Burbank. His email address remains the same:
scohnmusic@earthlink.net. However, hIs phone number has changed; if you call the old number you will be referred to the new one.
Thursday, May 09, 2002
Stephen has received a grant from The Los Angeles Composers Forum to pay for traveling expenses to the festival in August described below. He is very grateful to have the support of the Los Angeles chapter of The American Composers Forum.
On Sunday May 5th Stephen appeared on a live television broadcast from the University of California at Dominguez Hills, demonstrating Sibelius Music Notation Software. The show is hosted by Dr. Peter Desberg.
Thursday, April 25, 2002
Stephen has been invited to be Composer in Residence at the International Musical Encounters of Catalogne, a music festival which will be held in Ceret, a small city in the south of France from August 18th to the 25th, this coming summer. He has accepted the invitation. Three of his works will be performed and he will give talks on American Music and will participate in round-table discussions with artists from France and Poland. Ceret is near the coast and is also very close to the Spanish border. It was one of Picasso's favorite places to work. A small museum there contains works by Picasso which he painted in Ceret.
In May Stephen will be orchestrating music for a "Land Before Time" sequel for video release. The music will be composed by Stephen's friend, Michael Tavera.
Saturday, April 20, 2002
Currently, Stephen is working with Lalo Schifrin, providing assistance with Lalo's new commission for the Chicago Symphony. He is also tutoring Lalo in the use of Sibelius Notation Software.
Stephen is happy to announce that he has a new assistant, Stephanie Wukovitz. Stephanie has a high level of expertise with computers and, in fact, has done computer programming as well as being a gifted composer and orchestrator. She is providing Stephen with assistance in both technical and musical matters.
Friday, April 12, 2002
"Serena's Garden", a new CD Album of relaxation music, composed and produced by Stephen, has been released by At Peace Media and is available on their web site
www.atpeacemusic.com.
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Stephen leaves for Prague on January 18 to be present at recording sessions of music he orchestrated for composer Daniel May. The music will be used for the theme park "Mediaeval Times". The ninety piece orchestra will be recorded in the Rudolphinum Concert Hall in the center of Prague.
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Stephen has writen an article entitled "How To Get Started On Your First Film Score - A Question List For Filmscore Production" which is now appearing on
soniccontrol.com.
The article deals with the inevitable questions that will come up once you're ready to start working on your first film score and is aimed at supporting the composer in getting a well-directed start in making good decisions early in the process.
Friday, November 30, 2001
A micro suite of three duets for violin and cello, composed by Stephen will be performed on December 2, this coming Sunday at California Institute of The Arts at 2:00PM in Roy O. Disney Hall by Cellist Jessica Catron and violinist Johnny Chang. This is a concert of thirty second pieces composed for the occaision and includes music by a number of other composers.
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