Stephen Deutsch

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Stephen Deutsch
Born (1945-07-17) July 17, 1945 (age 80)
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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Career

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). [5] [6] 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. [7] 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.

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. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "School of Sound 1998". www.schoolofsound.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Stephen Deutsch". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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