Michael J Stewart is a composer, pianist, music journalist and web designer. He studied composition, piano and flute at Chichester College, Sussex and continued his musical studies at Trinity College of Music London where he studied composition with Sir John Tavener. During this time he also completed Richard Arnell's course "Composing Music for Films" at the London International Film School, as well as working with contemporary dance choreographers in London.
As a journalist and reviewer he has written for many music journals and record companies including: Music & Musicians, Classical Music, Decca International, Virgin Classics, RCA, Collins Classics, Argo and Warner Music as well as Gramophone magazine, for which he was a regular contributor for 14 years. He was Consultant Editor to The Good CD Guide between 1991-1996.
MJS is an authority on the music of the Greek composer Jani Christou (1940-70) and in 2000 wrote the booklet essays to a 4 volume CD series devoted Christou's music on the Greek label Sirius. The series was granted the Discography Award by the Greek Union of Drama and Music Critics in 2002
From 1996-98 he was administrator and musical advisor at Stert's Art's Centre in Cornwall.
He composes in a mixture of compositional styles ranging from minimalism, maximalism, experimental through to electronic and graphic scores.
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