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. [1]

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Biography

Stephen McNeff was born in Belfast and grew up in south Wales. [2] 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 [3] 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 [4] staging of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland by the Donmar for the BOC Covent Garden festival in 1994 brought him wider attention. [5] He was appointed 'Composer-in-the-House' with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2005 and later became Composer in Residence. [6] During his three-year tenure, he wrote a number of major works for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its contemporary counterpart Kokoro.

Since 2002 McNeff has been a Visiting Artist of Dartington International Summer School, South West Music School, and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He is currently on the composition staff of Guildhall School of Music and Drama. [7]

Selected works

Operas

Other Vocal

Orchestral and Chamber Works

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References

  1. ↑ Biography at Edition Peters
  2. ↑ Biography at PRS Foundation
  3. ↑ Dora Award recipients Archived 29 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "T S Eliot: the sequel: First that film, now this Waste Land opera" . Independent.co.uk . 3 May 1994. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "MUSIC / Always good for a quote: Nicholas Williams on the many voices" . Independent.co.uk . 11 May 1994. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Royal Philharmonic Society report of BSO Composer in the House appointment
  7. ↑ "Stephen McNeff | Guildhall School of Music & Drama". www.gsmd.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  8. ↑ Ty Cerdd Records
  9. ↑ Edition Peters
  10. ↑ Trinity Laban masterclass report Archived 8 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ London Premiere of The Chalk Legend (London Concert Choir, 14 July 2012) (London Concert Choir pdf p. 19).
  12. ↑ "Daughters of the Elements - Tête à Tête". 19 June 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  13. ↑ "Musical landscapes at Presteigne". 19 May 2010. Retrieved 2 September 2016– via bbc.co.uk.
  14. ↑ "Independent Opera" . Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  15. ↑ "BRITISH COMPOSER AWARDS" . Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  16. ↑ "BBC - Leeds - Entertainment - fuseleeds 2006" . Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  17. ↑ Edition Peters
  18. ↑ Corporation, British Broadcasting. "BBC - Radio Ulster - Programmes" . Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  19. ↑ "Rambert Dance Company: Dance cosies up to science" . Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  20. ↑ Works performed: The Borletti-Buitoni Trust Archived 10 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ↑ "Clarinet Concerto". 30 May 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  22. ↑ Article on performing 'Ghosts' in 'Winds' magazine, 2008 Archived 6 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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