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Stephen Ferguson is a Scottish musician, composer and producer living in Vienna. Ferguson has since the early 1980s[1] composed and produced film and movie scores, and has been praised as a composer of "undisputed originality".[2]

Education

Ferguson studied classical piano in London, musicology (Ph.D.) at the University of Vienna and holds a master's degree in music analysis.[3] Through his music producing background, Ferguson has attained a reputation as a technologically advanced musician, an additional skill that has offered him employment as an IT expert, such at the University of Vienna's Department of English in the early 2000s.[4]

Compositions

His compositions have been commissioned, among others, by the Edinburgh Festival, Ars Electronica (Austria), Salzburger Festspiele, WDR, BBC, King's Lynn Festival, Musikverein Wien, ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, steirischer herbst.[5]

Discography (as solo artist)

Stephen Ferguson: Multitracks, Blackplastic LP 07124 (1983)

Stephen Ferguson: Piano Music, Extraplatte CD 850 088 (1988)

Stephen Ferguson: Piano Wind Brass, Extraplatte CD EX 112 090 (1990)

Current projects

aAmplify, operational since 2000, is a digital music and productions site. In 2009/10, the project was showcased in an exhibit in Vienna's House of Music.[6] The project, sponsored by the City of Vienna's Cultural Office, maintains as its raison-d'etre to "demonstrate Vienna's commitment to the third millenium's non-commercial music and developments in streaming media".[7]

Instruments played (incomplete)

EMS Synthi 100[8]

References

  1. ^ "Stephen Ferguson's Personal Page". Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  2. ^ Wilson, Peter Niklas. "quoted from Neue Zeitschrift für Musik". Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  3. ^ Ferguson, Stephen. "Biographical Details". Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  4. ^ "Department of English". Retrieved January 31, 2018. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); Check date values in: |archive-date= (help)
  5. ^ "Stephen Ferguson biographical detailts". Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  6. ^ "Haus der Musik Program". Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  7. ^ "Amplify". Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  8. ^ "Bio stub". Department of English. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
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