Stephen Deutsch

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Stephen Deutsch
Born (1945-07-17) July 17, 1945 (age 79)
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genres Electronic music
Occupation Film score composer
Years active1976–present
Websitestephen-deutsch.com

Stephen Deutsch (July 17, 1945) is a filmmaker, professor, and film score composer who has composed over 30 scores for film, theatre, radio, and television. His many collaborations with the playwright Peter Barnes include Jubilee (2001), the Olivier Award-winning play Red Noses (1985) and the feature film Hard Times (1994). [1]

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He was a sound designer/composer on two films, Wild South and Postcards from, Applecross, which he also directed.[ citation needed ]

He has published one novel about music: Zweck. [2] His second novel, Champion, [3] was set in France and Germany in the 1930s was published in July 2020. He was editor of The Soundtrack and The New Soundtrack journals from 2007-2018. [4]

Deutsch was educated initially in the United States (initial training - Juilliard Preparatory Division; BMus - SMU; MA - San Francisco State College). After settling in Britain, he attended the Royal College of Music where he was engaged in electro-acoustic composition under the direction of Tristram Cary.[ citation needed ] In 1971, he and two partners established Synthesiser Music Services, Ltd., an electro-acoustic studio in London.

At Bournemouth University, he was Professor of Post-Production. [5] In 1992, he founded the University's PGDip/M.A. in Electro-Acoustic Music for Film and Television (later called Composing for the Screen). He was also Senior Tutor in Screen Composition at the National Film and Television School.

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References

  1. Scott, Tony (26 April 1995). "Masterpiece Theatre Hard Times". Variety. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  2. Deutsch, Stephen. Zweck.
  3. "Champion". Unicorn Publishing Group. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  4. "The New Soundtrack: v. 1, Issue 1 av Professor Stephen Deutsch, Larry Sider, Dominic Power (Häftad)". Bokus.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  5. "Stephen Deutsch". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 18 April 2020.