Stephen Beville
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Stephen Beville is an English composer and pianist of classical music.
Acclaimed in 2010 as 'one of the most talented young musicians to emerge from the UK' (Frankfurter Neue Press), Beville began to compose and study the piano at the age of eleven. As a pianist, he has performed throughout Britain and Germany, and has made recordings and given interviews for SWR (Southwest German) radio. Beville has performed at festivals including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the 'Glories of the Keyboard', and 'American Reflections' festivals at the Royal Northern College of Music and the London New Wind Festival.
Career
Beville studied at the Junior Academy (Royal Academy of Music) from 1989–94, learning composition, and later piano and conducting. Having won a Yamaha scholarship, he read Music at the University of Huddersfield. During this time, he performed much contemporary music, and studied piano with Peter Katin and composition with Richard Steinitz.
Beville graduated in 1998 with
He thereafter continued his studies at the
Beville's music has been performed in venues such as the
In 2001, Beville won a
In 2011, a first volume of Beville's music (comprising Purgatory Pieces and Scenes from Dreams) was published by the Berlin-based publishers Simon-Verlag. His debut CD recordings of piano music by
Discography
- 'Stephen Beville in Karlsruhe', Divine Art CD25108.
CD 1: Chopin - Scherzo No 4 in E, Op 54/ Boulez - Douze Notations/ Beethoven - Sonata in C minor, Op 111.
CD 2: Beethoven - Sonata in E-flat, Op 81a/ Schumann - Fantasie in C, Op 17.
- 'Stephen Beville - Visions and Ventures', Divine Art CD25230
J.S Bach - Prelude and Fugue in E (Well Tempered Klavier, Book II) / Prokofiev - Visions Fugitives, Op 22/ Beethoven - Sonata in E-flat, Op 7.
Selected works
- Ballade for Eight Players (1997)
- Prologue for string Quartet (1998)
- Three Piano Pieces (1998)
- Epicycle for chamber orchestra (1999-2000)
- Meditations at the Cross for large ensemble(2000)
- The Echoing Sky for piano and electronics (2001)
- Three Michelangelo Pieces for piano, electronics and tape (2002).
- Fashionism - Scenes of Youth for electric guitar, piano, percussion and electronics (2003).
- Purgatory Pieces for string quartet (2004)
- Nocturnes for violin and piano (2005)
- Scenes from Dreams - Six pieces for piano (2006).
- Grand Partita for speaker and large orchestra (2007-8).
- Improvisation I - The Time of Day for cello and piano(2009).
- Shards and Shimmers for piano solo (2009–10).
- Aria for flute and piano (2010).
- Four Sacred Pieces for various instruments (2011).
- Monodrama for solo violin (2011).
- Prelude, Etude & Fantasy, for keyboard (2012).
- Other Spaces for viola and bongos (2012).
- Hootenanny for flute and electronics (2013).
- Homage to Mondrian for piano (2014).
- Jerusalem Visions for chorus and orchestra (text: William Blake) (2016).
- Triptych for Church Organ (2017).
- Two Painters (Mondrian and Nicholson) for piano (2018).
- Out Wonted Hymn for chorus and organ (text: R. Bridges) (2019).
- L'education philosophique for clarinet, metallic percussion and speaker (2019).
- Portrait of the Angel Raphael' for piano (2020)
- Kyrie for solo singers, chorus and orchestra (2020).
- Holy Song for chorus and organ (2021).
- Every Man chorus and orchestra (text: W Kandinsky) (2021)
- Fanfare for the Solitary Man for solo cornet (2021).
- The Word for chorus and organ (2022).
- Jesus Lamb of God for unaccompanied choir (2022).
- Memento for unaccompanied choir (2023).