Draft:Stephen Gibson

Stephen Brodie Gibson (b. 1957) is a British composer of contemporary classical music and music notation designer.

Biography and career
Stephen Gibson. was born in East Barnet, London into a musical family. His father Arthur was a professional organist whose arrangements were published by Ashdown, Cramer and other publishers. He studied composition at Birmingham University where his teachers were John Casken, John Joubert, and later Bill Hopkins. In 1982 he was invited to study music theatre at The Banff Centre of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada with composer Stephen McNeff and poet Charles Causley.

His music has been heard at the Huddersfield Festival and on Radio 3, and performers have included the Endymion, Koenig and Altissimo Ensembles, Still Life with Guitar, Michael Finnissy, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and London New Wind. His output stretches to over 100 pieces. Stephen’s music is published by UMP

As an engraver, he was an early adopter of the SCORE music notation program written by Prof. Leland Smith of Stanford University. He co-founded the company New Notations to offer music preparation services using SCORE, and his programs for midi playback, midi input and conditional score editing - Midiscor, MidiscorWrite and ScorEdit - have been used by SCORE users all around the world. He wrote the SCORE converter for Sibelius which was part of the program until version 5.

List of Compositions – (selective list)
STAGE

ORCHESTRAL
 * Ghost Town 1983
 * Subclass Four Million 1983
 * Music Hall Songs 1987
 * Here’s a Health to Cardinal Puff 1993,
 * Spirit of Youth from Symphony 1985-6
 * Sonatas for Piano and Orchestra 2007
 * Suite no 1 for Small Orchestra 2016
 * Suite no 2 for Small Orchestra 2016
 * Concertino for Horn and Strings 2020
 * Viola Concerto 2021
 * Cello Concerto 2023

WIND

CHAMBER
 * Night Train
 * Set no 1 for wind band 2007
 * Set no 2 for symphonic wind band 2011-12
 * Folk Song Suite (Set no 3) for symphonic wind band 2013
 * String Quartet no 2 2004
 * String Quartet no 3 2006
 * Polymonophony 2018
 * Tribute 2019

VOCAL


 * Music Hall Songs 1986
 * The Creeping Crawling Terror 2006
 * Three Welcomes and Three Farewells 2012

INSTRUMENTAL


 * Stomp 1981-2
 * Flute Songs 1986
 * 24 Bagatelles for Horn and Piano 2010
 * 52 Easy Piano Pieces 2010
 * Sonata for Two Bassoons 2018
 * Three Bells 2019

For a comprehensive list and listening, visit https://www.stephengibson.co.uk/