Stephen Chadwick
Professional
Biography
Introduction
Stephen Chadwick (b.1960) is a composer with a broad interest in music: ranging from classical and world music through to electronic and dance. He is equally at home writing for symphony orchestras, world music combinations or in the electronic music studio.
Education
He studied composition under Stanley Glasser at Goldsmiths College, London and after gaining his M.Mus in 1985, lectured on the degree course in composition and music technology. He left Goldsmiths in 1992 to devote all his time to composing for media and the concert platform.
Media Composition
Theme and incidental music written for TV and radio includes the BBC's Bitesize series, C4's Music Search, TTV's Literacy series and Disney / Pearson's English Adventure, which involved composing new music to over 30 excerpts from Disney's major animations.
An award-winning composer
In April 1999 he received a Royal Television Society Award for his work on the BBC's Professor Allegro's World of Music - Music Maker Series, for which his song writing was especially commended. As well as composing, Stephen has worked on many music educational programmes and media projects as co-creator/consultant and musical director, including the BAFTA award-winning Grid Club Music Studio website.
Compositions for the concert platform
In 1989 Stephen began his long association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra from which he has received many commissions. Cotopaxi, written for panpipes and orchestra, was given its first performance in the Royal Festival Hall in 1992 by Incantation and was recently premiered in the USA.
His enthusiasm for fusing contrasting musical traditions can be seen in the work, Endangered Species, written for African drumming group and orchestra, which was premiered at the Royal Festival Hall by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004 and again in 2006 at the Barbican Centre. Stephen made his conducting debut with them in 1996.
Publications
Publications include: Singing French and Singing English (A&C Black) - both featuring songs in a variety of contemporary styles; and the Roald Dahl musicals, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, both commissioned by the Roald Dahl Foundation and published by A&C Black. The musical, A Christmas Soldier, based on the Christmas truce of 1914, is published by Cramer Music Ltd (1990).
Stephen has also co-written many educational resources, including Three Rapping Rats (winner of the Times Ed. Music Book of the Year Award, 1999) and Music Express (winner of the Education Resources Award, 2003) both published by A&C Black.
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- English Adventure (Disney/Pearson)
- Professor Allegro's World of Music (BBC)
- GCSE Bitesize (BBC)
- Roald Dahl's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Roald Dahl's Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Carnival Animal Life (LPO)
- Writers' Block (BBC)
- 2020 Vision (C4)
- Groovy Granny Green Show
- Endangered Species (LPO)
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