Stephen Deutsch
Stephen Deutsch | |
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| Born | July 17, 1945 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Genres | Electronic music |
| Occupation | Film score composer |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Website | stephen-deutsch.com |
Stephen Deutsch (July 17, 1945) is a filmmaker, professor, and film score composer who has composed over 30 scores for film, theatre, radio, and television. His many collaborations with the playwright Peter Barnes include Jubilee (2001), the Olivier Award-winning play Red Noses (1985) and the feature film Hard Times (1994).[1]
Career
[edit]He was a sound designer/composer on two films, Wild South and Postcards from, Applecross, which he also directed.[citation needed]
He has published one novel about music: Zweck.[2] His second novel, Champion,[3] was set in France and Germany in the 1930s was published in July 2020. He was editor of The Soundtrack and The New Soundtrack journals from 2007-2018.[4]
Deutsch was educated initially in the United States (initial training - Juilliard Preparatory Division; BMus - SMU; MA - San Francisco State College). After settling in Britain, he attended the Royal College of Music where he was engaged in electro-acoustic composition under the direction of Tristram Cary.[citation needed] In 1971, he and two partners established Synthesiser Music Services, Ltd., an electro-acoustic studio in London.
At Bournemouth University, he was Professor of Post-Production.[5] In 1992, he founded the University's PGDip/M.A. in Electro-Acoustic Music for Film and Television (later called Composing for the Screen). He was also Senior Tutor in Screen Composition at the National Film and Television School.
References
[edit]- ^ Scott, Tony (26 April 1995). "Masterpiece Theatre Hard Times". Variety. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ Deutsch, Stephen. Zweck.
- ^ "Champion". Unicorn Publishing Group. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "The New Soundtrack: v. 1, Issue 1 av Professor Stephen Deutsch, Larry Sider, Dominic Power (Häftad)". Bokus.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Stephen Deutsch". Edinburgh University Press Books. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- American people of Jewish descent
- Academics of Bournemouth University
- American film score composers
- American male film score composers
- Musicians from Brooklyn
- San Francisco State University alumni
- Juilliard School Pre-College Division alumni
- Alumni of the Royal College of Music
- Southern Methodist University alumni
- Labour Party (UK) people