Stephen Mark Barchan (b.1982) is a British composer and conductor based in the UK.

Amongst the organisations who have presented his music are LSO Discovery, Ostrava Days, Park Lane Group, Sounds New and Soundwaves Festivals at venues including Cineworld (Shaftesbury Avenue), LSO St Lukes, Southbank Centre, The Warehouse and Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. Performances of his work have been given by BCMG, Endymion, Galliard Ensemble (former BBC New Generation Artists), London Sinfonietta and Psappha, along with individual performances by David Purser, Jane Manning and Peter Donohoe. As a conductor, he has worked with Azalea Ensemble, Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Firebird, Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Collective and Maverick TV/Channel 4 Television.

Recent projects have included commissions from the ensemble Musitonik and Thursday Film Ltd., various orchestrations commissioned by North London Collegiate School, plus a commission to write additional music for the television show The Fast Lane, broadcast in over thirty countries by Motors TV. In 2009 he was commissioned to write the score for the feature film A Closed Book (premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and based on the novel A Closed Book by Gilbert Adair, published by Faber and Faber) directed by Raoul Ruiz and starring Daryl Hannah, Tom Conti, Miriam Margoyles, Elaine Paige and Simon MacCorkindale.

Whilst at (and shortly after leaving) music college he worked as a music copyist for Faber Music Ltd., Samuel French Ltd., Schott Music Ltd. and United Music Publishers Ltd., along with individual projects for Anthony Payne (BBC Philharmonic, Cheltenham Festival and London Sinfonietta commissions), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Joe Cutler and Tempo music magazine. He recently typeset musical examples for the chapter written by Richard Steinitz in the book Remembering Ligeti, published by Boydell and Brewer.

During January 2012 he was featured artist of the month on the Dutch radio programme Dissonant, broadcast by RTV-Arnhem. He is currently writing a new piece for violinist Irmina Trynkos and a new piece for the Contemporary Consort to be performed in July 2012 at the King's Lynn Festival, where he will be a featured composer and talk about his music with Festival director Ambrose Miller. He has also been commissioned by the Eye Music/Rawsthorn Fund to write a new ensemble piece to be performed in Colourscape in September 2012.


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New recordings:

Itsy Bitsy Spider (second movement from Two Songs About Spiders)

Jane Manning, soprano




 

Updated: May 2012