Stephen Ferguson

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 31 January 2018.
  2. Wilson, Peter Niklas. "quoted from Neue Zeitschrift für Musik". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. Ferguson, Stephen. "Biographical Details". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  4. "Department of English". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  5. "Stephen Ferguson biographical detailts". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  6. "Haus der Musik Program". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  7. "Amplify". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  8. "Bio stub". Department of English. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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