Profiles

Stephen Mark Barchan (b.1982) and 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, and a commission from Thursday Film Ltd. to write the score for the short film The Gap. He is a member of the London Sinfonietta Collective and becoming increasingly active as a conductor, recently appearing with the Azalea Ensemble at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Future projects include a new piece for the Contemporary Consort to be performed at the King's Lynn Festival this summer and a new piece for Trio d'ART (Paul Archibald - trumpet, John Kenny - trombone, Helen Reid - piano).