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Euan Stevenson
“subtle, fluid and effortlessly skilled pianism of Euan Stevenson”
“Combining jazz and classical idioms is a tricky business, but Euan Stevenson succeeds splendidly”
Solo - Piano
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- Euan Stevenson - Piano
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A highly accessible and engaging set of solo piano music punctuated by informative and entertaining commentary featuring composers such as Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Satie, Bartók, Ellington, Gershwin, Miles Davis, The Beatles and the pianist himself.
Biography
Euan Stevenson is a Scottish pianist, composer, arranger and songwriter. Born into a musical family which includes prolific film conductor/arranger Muir Mathieson and composer Cedric Thorpe Davie, Euan’s music, which encompasses classical, jazz, folk as well as film and animation, has been recorded and performed by a broad range of artists across genres including Georgia Cécile, Gabrielle Aplin and Pinchas Zukerman and by leading ensembles such as The RSNO, The English Chamber Orchestra, The Bach Choir, The BBC Big Band, BBC Concert Orchestra, The SNJO and The Guy Barker Orchestra. His music broadcasts regularly across BBC Radio, Classic FM and Jazz FM.
In solo format, in addition to his own compositions, Euan programmes a broad range of styles and composers, such as Bach, Chopin, Satie, Gershwin and The Beatles and his relaxed and informative speaking style (often highlighting the many traits shared by classical composers and jazz musicians) is engaging, entertaining and informative for audiences in equal measure.
In addition to being pianist, co-writer and arranger for jazz singer Georgia Cécile, Euan writes for and performs with classical chamber group Earthtones Trio, featuring RSNO principal soloists Betsy Taylor (cello) and internationally acclaimed flautist Katherine Bryan. The trio recently released debut album Sound Tracks, a new suite of compositions (or film music études) written by Euan and inspired by his home town of Falkirk. Global interest in the trio was sparked when Classic FM featured a video of his haunting arrangement of the ancient hymn of Advent ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’.
In addition to accompanying some of the UK’s finest jazz singers, Euan co-leads a number of performance projects, notably the virtuosic Newton/Stevenson Jazz Piano Duo with maestro David Newton and New Focus Duo with saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski - the latter began as a nine-piece ensemble for which Stevenson composed and arranged music for two genre-defying albums: the eponymous ‘New Focus’ (nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award) and ‘New Focus on Song’.
Euan is a part time lecturer at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a highly regarded private teacher of alumni such as Mercury-nominated jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie. Away from music he is a keen tennis player and quite probably the only musician to have ever beaten Andy Murray in a tennis tournament (albeit a very long time ago)!
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