Profiles

Stephen Mark Barchan (b.1982) studied composition with Richard Steinitz and Edwin Roxburgh, supported by the EMI Music Sound Foundation. Whilst at (and shortly after leaving) music college he worked as a music copyist for Faber Music, Schott Music and United Music Publishers, along with individual copying projects for Anthony Payne (BBC Philharmonic, Cheltenham Festival and London Sinfonietta commissions), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Tempo music magazine.

During January 2012 he was featured artist of the month on the Dutch radio programme Dissonant (broadcast by RTV-Arnhem) and recent new pieces have included Changing Seasons (commissioned by Musitonik for their December 2011 tour of Taiwan), Two Songs About Spiders for the soprano Jane Manning, a commission from Thursday Film Ltd. to write the score for the short film The Gap and various orchestrations commissioned by North London Collegiate School. He is a member of the London Sinfonietta Collective and active as a conductor, recently appearing with the Azalea Ensemble at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

In July 2012 he will be a featured composer at the King's Lynn Festival with a new piece Trapped Inside for the Contemporary Consort plus a pre-concert talk about his music with Festival director Ambrose Miller. He is currently writing a new piece for violinist Irmina Trynkos and a new piece for Trio d'ART (Paul Archibald - trumpet, John Kenny - trombone, Helen Reid - piano).