Stephen Stanfield : Represented Artist
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Random Audio Sample: Are you there? : clarinet solo by Stephen Stanfield, from the CD Australia |
Stephen Stanfield (b. 1966) is a Brisbane–based composer and music educator with a broad interest in art and popular music. In recent times he has been concentrating on electroacoustic and acousmatic composition presented in surround sound performance and listening environments. He undertook his composition training at the Queensland Conservatorium with Gerard Brophy, Mary Mageau and Richard Mills, and music education training at Queensland University of Technology. Stanfield was awarded a Master of Music in Composition from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in 2000, and is currently undertaking Doctoral studies in Composition at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Stanfield has been a recipient of prizes and honorary mentions in the Spivakovsky Prize for Composition, the 1995 ABC Concerts Composers Competition, and the Ladislav Kubik International Prize in Composition, and has received funding for commissions from Arts Queensland, the Australia Council and Festivals Australia. His compositions have been performed and broadcast in Australia, New Zealand, Holland and New York and have been included on education CDs produced by the Sydney Symphony and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras (into the storm) and the Southern Cross Soloists (are you there?).
He has worked as composer, convener and music director for community and personal projects included in the 2003 and 2001 Queensland Biennial Festival of Music (St Mary's Mass We Choose, Critical Mass), the 2000 Brisbane Festival (Symbitronic Ensemble), the 1999 Queensland Biennial Festival of Music (Concert–on–Bicycles, First Light Breakfasts), the 1997 Mackay Festival of Arts (Son et Luminare), as well as co–ordinating the 1996 Queensland Composers' Conference and the 1997 Pan–Pacific Composers' Conference in Mackay. In 2005 he was assistant music director for the Queensland Music Festival's Australian premiere of Credo: Innocence of God composed and conducted by Andreas Molino.
Stanfield has been engaged as composer and surround sound designer for interdisciplinary site–specific collaborations with Queensland visual artist Jonde Keane, choreographers Vanessa Mafe and Cheryl Stock, and Singaporean choreographer Jeffrey Tan. He has appeared as guest lecturer in composition and music technology at secondary schools in Brisbane and Mackay, and has lectured in composition, contextual music studies, and music technology at Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, and Queensland University of Technology.
Biography provided by the composer — current to January 2009