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Stephen Yates : Associate Artist

Random Audio Sample: Though I would : soprano voice with piano by Stephen Yates, from the CD Simply songs


Stephen Yates was born in 1957 in Newcastle, where he studied violin and piano at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. He later studied composition with Nigel Butterley and Anthony Brennan. After moving to Sydney in 1980, he continued his studies with Dr Martin Wesley-Smith at the Sydney Conservatorium.

Stephen Yates works freelance as a composer and, in 1994, was selected as one of the six finalists in the prestigious Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Awards, for his Suite for Solo Harpsichord. He has written for chamber ensembles, contemporary theatre, dance and marionette companies and is especially interested in writing for solo instrumentalists and for the voice.


Biography provided by the composer — current to September 2005

Selected Commissions

  Work Commission Details
Sea, air and a cloud or two : for solo piano (1994) Commissioned by Cheryl Ng.
Movements : violin with piano (1993) Commissioned by Philippa Paige.