| Stephen Deutsch | |
| Background: | non_performing_personnel |
| Birth Date: | July 17, 1945 |
| Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Genre: | Electronic music |
| Occupation: | Film score composer |
| Years Active: | 1976–present |
| Associated Acts: | Peter Barnes |
| 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]
He was a sound designer/composer on two films, Wild South and Postcards from, Applecross, which he also directed.
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. 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.