Stephen Morland is a pen name I used when I wanted to keep my playing career and my composing career separate. (I don't feel so strongly about it these days but it's too late now to change!)
I have been composing music from as early as I can remember and it has been a continuous process apart from some years in my twenties when my entire energies were channelled into establishing myself as a successful freelance musician.
Like my playing, my composition encompasses a wide range of styles but I have an obvious bias towards writing for woodwind instruments.
Many arrangements and compositions have been widely performed and broadcast by the BBC. I was particularly pleased that Recitatives for Solo Saxophone was used as a test piece for an international competition for young professional saxophonists, run by CASS (Clarinet and Saxophone Society (UK))
Film Scores:
In Exil Ordinaire (Isabelle Denhez)
The Bar (Eamonn Murphy)
Industrial video for Price Waterhouse (Eamonn Murphy)
Recordings:
Loud (words and Music by SP) on I Never Do Anything Twice - Morag McLaren (Dress Circle Records)
(This one went out under the name of Stephen Pierce by accident!)
As Time Goes By (music and words by Herman Hupfeld – arr. SP) - Saxpak
Works published by Broadbent & Dunn Ltd:
Arrangements:
Three by Bach (Flute Quartet)
Three by Mozart (Flute Quartet)
Three by Tchaikovsky (Flute Quartet)
Three by Dvorak (Flute Quartet)
Three by Purcell (Flute Quartet)
Nocturne - Borodin (Clarinet Quartet)
Three Preludes - JS Bach (Clarinet Quartet)
Solfeggietto - CPE Bach (Clarinet Quartet)
Solfeggietto - CPE Bach (Clarinet Sextet)
Compositions:
Parallels for Tenor Sax and Piano
Recitatives for Solo Saxophone
Elegy and Fugue for Tenor Sax and Piano
Humoresques for Solo Saxophone
Unpublished:
Two Christmas Carols for unaccompanied choir –
All This Night (words by William Austin)
Nativity Chorale (Latin text - Isaiah 9: 6-7)
These carols have been performed as far afield as Illinois USA, by the Chicago Master Singers Chorale, conductor Alan Heatherington. (Copies obtainable from SP)
Steve Pierce - Steve Pierce
