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The compositions of Stephen Goss are utterly captivating – The Independent
Flair, quick thinking, and a feel for colour are everywhere – BBC Music Magazine
Some very successful guitar composers seem a bit out of their element when the guitar is not present, but Goss sounds perfectly at home with other instruments or combinations of instruments. It is very impressive. – Soundboard Magazine
Stephen Goss’s music receives hundreds of performances worldwide each year. It has been recorded on over 90 albums by more than a dozen record labels, including EMI, Decca, Virgin Classics, Naxos, and Deutsche Grammophon, and is regularly performed at the world’s leading concert venues, such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Tchaikovsky Hall, and the Royal Albert Hall. Steve’s output embraces multiple genres: orchestral and choral works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He is considered ‘one of the guitar’s finest living composers’ (International Record Review).
Recent work includes several projects with the legendary guitarist John Williams, who has recorded and toured Steve’s Guitar Concerto (2012) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Describing the concerto in an interview for Soundboard, Williams said ‘I don’t know of any guitar concerto which is as consistently successful on all fronts’.
Goss’s work is marked by a fascination with time and place – both immediate and remote – and the musical styles that evoke them. In many of his compositions, contrasting styles are juxtaposed through abrupt changes of gear. As BBC Music Magazine noted ‘Goss weaves together an eclectic range of influences – at once retrospective and forward-looking’. His compositional voice is shaped by his parallel career as a guitarist – that is to say, as a performer, transcriber, arranger, improviser and collaborator with other composers and performers. Not surprisingly, his music often tests the boundaries between all these activities and original composition.
Steve’s music has been performed and recorded by many of the world’s leading orchestras including: the Russian National Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC NOW, and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. In his role as composer-in-residence for the Orpheus Sinfonia, Steve wrote the Piano Concerto (released by Signum Classics in 2013), and the Concerto for Five (for the unique combination of violin, saxophone, cello, bass, piano and orchestra). Steve’s Albéniz Concerto for guitar and orchestra was released to great critical acclaim on EMI Classics in 2010 and has since been performed in Europe, Asia, Russia, and the US. Steve’s other concertos include: A Concerto of Colours, for guitar and wind ensemble, the Koblenz Concerto for two guitars and orchestra (for SoloDuo) and the Theorbo Concerto for Matthew Wadsworth: the first concerto ever written for the theorbo. In 2021 Steve was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award.
Other commissions have come from: percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, cellist Natalie Clein, flutist William Bennett, and tenor Ian Bostridge, as well as guitarists David Russell, Xuefei Yang, Zoran Dukić, Miloš Karadaglić, Aniello Desiderio, and Lukasz Kuropaczewski. Steve’s eclectic approach has led to collaborations with artists as diverse as Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alt-J, and Avi Avital.
As a guitarist, Steve has worked with many leading composers (such as Toru Takemitsu, Hans Werner Henze, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Elliott Carter) and toured and recorded extensively with the Tetra Guitar Quartet and other ensembles.
Born in Wales in 1964, Stephen Goss studied at the Royal Academy of Music (where he won the Julian Bream Prize) and the Universities of Bristol and London (where he completed his doctorate in composition). His composition teachers included Edward Gregson, Robert Saxton, Peter Dickinson, and Anthony Payne, and he studied guitar with Michael Lewin. Steve is currently Professor of Composition and Director of the International Guitar Research Centre at the University of Surrey, UK, and Professor of Guitar at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, an honour limited to 300 living people. He is an Arsenal season ticket holder.
© Jonathan Leathwood 2023
A Concerto of Colours
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1156
American Pastoral
GOSS Stephen
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DO 952
an ideal insomnia
GOSS Stephen
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DO 996
Aphorisms
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1581
Bagatelles with Fantasies
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1362
Cantigas de Santiago
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1217
Cantigas de Santiago
GOSS Stephen
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DO 926
Carmen Fantasy
GOSS Stephen
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DO 945
Caught Between
GOSS Stephen
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Cinema Paradiso
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1154
Cocktail List
GOSS Stephen
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Concerto of Colours, piano reduction
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1298
Crunch Time
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Dark Knights and Holy Fools
GOSS Stephen
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Dialogues from Invisible Cities
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1456
El Llanto de los Sueños
GOSS Stephen
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DO 865
Exhalation
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DO 1454
First Milonga, Last Tango
GOSS Stephen
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DO 875
From Honey to Ashes
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1000
Frozen Music
GOSS Stephen
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DO 872
Gnossiennes
GOSS Stephen
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Guitar Concerto - complete pdf
GOSS Stephen
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DO 910M
Guitar Concerto - score
GOSS Stephen
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DO 910
Guitar Concerto (piano reduction)
GOSS Stephen
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DO 920
Nouveau
Hiraeth
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Illustrations to The Book of Songs
GOSS Stephen
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Interludes
GOSS Stephen
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DO 889
Intermezzi
GOSS Stephen
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Invisible Cities (Double concerto pour violon et guitare)
GOSS Stephen
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Koblenz Concerto (piano reduction)
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1342
Koblenz Concerto (score)
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1343
La Catedral Sumergida
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DO 1535
La Cumparsita
RODRIGUEZ G.H.M.
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DO 1117
La Serenissima
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1503
Labyrinth
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DO 1036
Lachrymae
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Landscape and Memory
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Landscape and Memory - PDF complet
GOSS Stephen
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Landscape and Memory - réduction de piano
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1485
Landscape and Memory, Concerto for 2 guitars and string orchestra
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1483
Looking Glass Ties
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1011
Mahler Lieder
GOSS Stephen
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DO 845
Marylebone Elegy
GOSS Stephen
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DO 866
Miami Beach
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DO 1519
Minimal Effort
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DO 1308
Motherlands
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1280
Northern Lights
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DO 969
Oxen of the Sun
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Paganini Variations
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DO 1532
Park of Idols
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Perpetual Motion Machine
GOSS Stephen
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Piano Cycle
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DO 1012
Pierrot, or Harlequin?
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DO 1555
Portraits and Landscapes
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DO 893
Raise the Red Lantern
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River Fragments
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DO 1471
River Winds
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Rough Music
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DO 1046
Sonata
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Sonata Capriccioso
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DO 1003
Sonatina
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Songs of Ophelia
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DO 1116
Songs of the Solar System
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DO 1302
Songs of the Solar System (12-pack)
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Sound of Iona
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DO 1030
Still Life
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DO 1299
Talking Drums
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DO 1155
Tarot
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DO 1393
The Albéniz Concerto - separate parts
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DO 887M
The Albéniz Concerto - separate parts 4th movement
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The Albéniz Concerto (piano reduction)
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DO 888
The Albéniz Concerto (score)
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DO 887
The Autumn Song
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DO 891
The Autumn Song
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The Book of Songs
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The Chinese Garden
GOSS Stephen
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The Flower of Cities
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
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The Lake of Time
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DO 1455
The Miller’s Tale
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DO 1079
The Paganini Concerto - score
GOSS Stephen
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The Paganini Concerto (piano reduction)
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1323
The Raw and the Cooked
GOSS Stephen
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The Sea of the Edge
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DO 890
The Shard
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DO 895
The Vine-fruit Carol
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The Vine-fruit Carol (12-pack)
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DO 1277C
Theorbo Concerto (for theorbo and string orchestra)
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Theorbo Concerto (for theorbo and string quartet)
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DO 1312
Theorbo Concerto (solo theorbo part)
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Time
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DO 1238
Under Milk Wood Songs
GOSS Stephen
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DO 894
Uneasy Dreams
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DO 1054
Verismo
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DO 1442
Wan Dance
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DO 951C
Watts Chapel
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DO 1013
Welsh Folksongs
GOSS Stephen
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DO 989
Welsh Folksongs
GOSS Stephen
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DO 981
Winterbourne Preludes
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1473
Wynwood Walls
GOSS Stephen
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DO 1526
Alborada del gracioso
RAVEL Maurice
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DZ 2712
Still the Sea
GOSS Stephen
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DZ 2260
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