Stephen Mark Barchan
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Stephen Mark Barchan is a British composer
and conductor
.
with Richard Steinitz (founder of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
) and Edwin Roxburgh
(supported by the EMI
Music Sound Foundation).
Organisations who have presented his music include London Sinfonietta
Collective, LSO
Discovery, Park Lane Group, Sounds New and Soundwaves Festivals at venues such as Adrian Boult Hall
, CBSO Centre
, Old Rep
, Purcell Room
, Queen Elizabeth Hall
, Royal Festival Hall
(Southbank Centre), Royal College of Music
, The Gate Arts Centre
, the Warehouse
, and Carnegie Hall
by performers such as Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
, David Purser (former principal trombone of the London Sinfonietta
), Endymion, Jane Manning
, Lior Eitan (principal piccolo of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
) and Peter Donohoe.
In 2009 he was commissioned to write the score for the 2009 film A Closed Book (also known as Blind Man's Bluff and based on the short novel A Closed Book
by Gilbert Adair
) directed by Raoul Ruiz
and starring Daryl Hannah
, Tom Conti
, Miriam Margoyles and Elaine Paige
, first screened at the Cannes Film Festival
in May 2009. In 2010 he was commissioned to write the score for the 2010 short film The Gap and in 2011 he was commissioned to write Changing Seasons for the ensemble Musitonik.
As a music copyist, he has completed projects for Anthony Payne
, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
, Faber Music
, Joe Cutler
, Samuel French Ltd.
, Schott Music
and United Music Publishers
.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
.
Career
Barchan studied compositionMusical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
with Richard Steinitz (founder of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...
) and Edwin Roxburgh
Edwin Roxburgh
Edwin Roxburgh is an English composer, conductor and oboist.After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music. He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in...
(supported by the EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
Music Sound Foundation).
Organisations who have presented his music include London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...
Collective, LSO
LSO
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Discovery, Park Lane Group, Sounds New and Soundwaves Festivals at venues such as Adrian Boult Hall
Adrian Boult Hall
The Adrian Boult Hall is the main concert hall of the Birmingham Conservatoire in central Birmingham, England. It is named after the conductor Adrian Boult....
, CBSO Centre
CBSO Centre
The CBSO Centre is the administrative home and rehearsal centre of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Choruses , and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on the corner of Berkley Street and Holliday Street, in Birmingham, England.It...
, Old Rep
Old Rep
The Old Rep is a theatre located in Station Street in Birmingham, England, managed by Birmingham City Council.Construction began in October 1912 and it was opened on February 15, 1913 with a performance of Twelfth Night and then a reading by its founder, Barry Jackson, of a poem written by John...
, Purcell Room
Purcell Room
The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the Southbank Centre, one of central London's leading cultural complexes. It is named after the 17th century English composer Henry Purcell and has 370 seats....
, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a music venue on the South Bank in London, United Kingdom that hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. The QEH forms part of Southbank Centre arts complex and stands alongside the Royal Festival Hall, which was built for the Festival...
, Royal Festival Hall
Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
(Southbank Centre), Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
, The Gate Arts Centre
The Gate Arts Centre
The Gate Arts Centre is a vibrant community building which is located in Keppoch Street, just off City Road, in the Roath suburb of Cardiff...
, the Warehouse
The Warehouse (London)
The Warehouse is a concert venue and recording studio located at 13 Theed Street on London's South bank, near Waterloo East. It is the home of the London Festival Orchestra....
, and Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
by performers such as Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is a chamber orchestra based in Birmingham, England. BCMG specialises in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham...
, David Purser (former principal trombone of the London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is an English chamber orchestra founded in 1968 and based in London. The ensemble specialises in contemporary music and works across a wide range of genres, performing modern classics alongside world premieres, and includes music by electronica artists as well as folk and...
), Endymion, Jane Manning
Jane Manning
Jane Manning OBE is an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. She has been described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms...
, Lior Eitan (principal piccolo of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel. It was originally known as the Palestine Orchestra, and in Hebrew as התזמורת הסימפונית הארץ ישראלית The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (abbreviation IPO; Hebrew: התזמורת הפילהרמונית הישראלית, ha-Tizmoret ha-Filharmonit...
) and Peter Donohoe.
In 2009 he was commissioned to write the score for the 2009 film A Closed Book (also known as Blind Man's Bluff and based on the short novel A Closed Book
A Closed Book
A Closed Book is a short novel by Gilbert Adair, published in 2000.The book starts with a slightly awkward meeting between a crotchety blind author and a sighted interviewee he seeks to employ as his assistant....
by Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec...
) directed by Raoul Ruiz
Raoul Ruiz
Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was a Chilean filmmaker.Ruiz spent some years at the Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina's cinema school. Back in Chile, he directed his first feature film Tres tristes tigres in the late 1960s, winning the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival...
and starring Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne and Kill Bill.-Early life:Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan...
, Tom Conti
Tom Conti
Thomas "Tom" Conti is a Scottish actor, theatre director and novelist.-Early life:Born Thomas Conti in Paisley, Renfrewshire, he was brought up Roman Catholic, but he considers himself anti-religious...
, Miriam Margoyles and Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige OBE is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16...
, first screened at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
in May 2009. In 2010 he was commissioned to write the score for the 2010 short film The Gap and in 2011 he was commissioned to write Changing Seasons for the ensemble Musitonik.
As a music copyist, he has completed projects for Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne
Anthony Payne is an English composer, most famous for the work published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne...
, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is a chamber orchestra based in Birmingham, England. BCMG specialises in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham...
, Faber Music
Faber Music
Faber Music is a British sheet music publisher best known for contemporary classical music. It also publishes music tutor books, and in 2005 acquired popular music publisher International Music Publications....
, Joe Cutler
Joe Cutler
Joe Cutler is a British composer who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. He has taught composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire since 2000, and since 2005 he has been the Head of Composition there...
, Samuel French Ltd.
Samuel French Ltd.
Samuel French Ltd is the UK sister company of Samuel French Inc., an American company, bearing the name of its co-founder Samuel French. The company publishes stage plays for the UK market, mostly acting editions, serves as licensing agent for performance rights, and runs the UK's leading...
, Schott Music
Schott Music
Schott Music is one of the oldest German music publishers. It is also one of the largest music publishing houses in Europe and is currently the second oldest music publishing house. The company headquarters of Schott Music was founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz, Germany in 1770.Established in...
and United Music Publishers
United Music Publishers
United Music Publishers is a publisher of sheet music and a music distribution firm based in Waltham Abbey, Essex. They are well known for being the sole representative in the UK and Ireland for all the major French classical sheet music publishers and a selection of international catalogues.They...
.
Awards
- 4th Andrzej PanufnikAndrzej PanufnikSir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...
International Young Composers Competition (2002) - Denis and Maud Wright Composition Award (2003)
- British Scholarship for OstravaOstravaOstrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...
Days (2003) - J Wood and Sons Prize (2004)
- Philip Bates Prize for Young Composers (2005, joint-second prize)
- SPNM shortlist (2006-2009)
- Royal Academy of MusicRoyal Academy of MusicThe Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
Open Academy bursary (2008) - International Composer Pyramid (2010, runner-up prize)
Selected works
- A Broken Spirit (2004) commissioned by Dr. Ken and Morry Smith
- Violent Shallow Eyes (2005) SPNM shortlist 2006
- Dark Times Lie Ahead (2005/2007) first performed by Warehouse Ensemble at the WarehouseThe Warehouse (London)The Warehouse is a concert venue and recording studio located at 13 Theed Street on London's South bank, near Waterloo East. It is the home of the London Festival Orchestra....
, London, UK in 2007 - Injured Love (2006) first performed by Birmingham Contemporary Music GroupBirmingham Contemporary Music GroupBirmingham Contemporary Music Group is a chamber orchestra based in Birmingham, England. BCMG specialises in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham...
at CBSO CentreCBSO CentreThe CBSO Centre is the administrative home and rehearsal centre of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Choruses , and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group on the corner of Berkley Street and Holliday Street, in Birmingham, England.It...
, Birmingham, UK in 2006 - Crying In The Distance (2006/2007) first performed by Lior Eitan at Felicja BlumentalFelicja BlumentalFelicja Blumental was a Polish--Brazilian pianist.Felicja Blumental was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a musical family, daughter of a violinist. She began piano lessons at the age of five, and made her debut at the age of ten...
Music Center, Tel Aviv, Israel in 2008 - Spit It Out (2007) commissioned by Park Lane Group. First performed in the Park Lane Group Lunchtime Series in 2007 at St James's Church, PiccadillySt James's Church, PiccadillySt James’s Church, Piccadilly is an Anglican church on Piccadilly in the centre of London, UK. It was designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren....
, London, UK - Beauty That Must Die (2007) commissioned by SPNM. First performed by Aruna Narayan (sarangi), Hanif Khan (tabla) and Endymion at Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK in 2007
- Blasted To Bits (2008) commissioned by David Purser. First performed by David Purser (trombone) and Jonathan Green (live electronics) at Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham, UK in 2008
- Freedom Within Limits (2008) commissioned by SPNM. First performed by Tetsuumi Nagata (violin) at LSO St Lukes, London, UK in 2008
- Sometimes The Case (2009) First performed by John Savournin (baritone) and The Warehouse Ensemble as part of the Rosemary Branch Festival 2009 at Rosemary Branch Theatre, London, UK in 2009
- Coming Into Focus (2009) First performed by Xenia Pestova (piano) at The Unitarian Church of Montreal, MontrealMontrealMontreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada in 2009 - The Gap (2010) commissioned by Thursday Film Ltd. First screened at CineworldCineworldCineworld Group plc is a cinema chain operating in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Jersey. The chain consists of 78 cinemas; 76 of which are located in the UK and one each in Ireland and Jersey. It is the second-largest cinema operator in the UK with 801 screens, and the owner of...
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, UK in 2010 - Opened Up (2010) First performed by Gerry Cornelius (conductor) and ICP Ensemble at St. Gregory's Centre for Music, Canterbury, UK in 2010
- Rising Up (2011) First performed by Sarah Watts (clarinet) at St Marylebone Parish ChurchSt Marylebone Parish Church-First church:The first church for the parish was built in the vicinity of the present Marble Arch c.1200, and dedicated to St John the Evangelist.-Second church:...
, London, UK in 2011 - Two Songs About Spiders (2010/2011) First performed by Jane ManningJane ManningJane Manning OBE is an English concert and opera soprano, writer on music, and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music. She has been described by one critic as "the irrepressible, incomparable, unstoppable Ms...
(soprano) at Function Room, Royal Festival HallRoyal Festival HallThe Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected...
, London, UK in 2011 - Changing Seasons (2011) commissioned by Musitonik. First performed by Musitonik at The Odeum, National Taiwan UniversityNational Taiwan UniversityNational Taiwan University is a national co-educational university located in Taipei, Republic of China . In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà" . Its main campus is set upon 1,086,167 square meters in Taipei's Da'an District. In addition, the university has 6 other campuses in Taiwan,...
, Taipei, Taiwan in 2011