Stephen Ferguson
{{Short description|Scottish musician, composer and producer}}
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Stephen Ferguson is a Scottish musician, composer and producer living in Vienna. Ferguson has since the early 1980s{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmkunst.at/filmkunst_neu/kuenstler/ferguson_werke.html|title=Stephen Ferguson's Personal Page|access-date=January 31, 2018}} composed and produced film and movie scores, and has been praised as a composer of "undisputed originality".{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmkunst.at/filmkunst_neu/kuenstler/ferguson_biographisches.html|title=quoted from Neue Zeitschrift für Musik|last=Wilson|first=Peter Niklas|access-date=January 31, 2018}}
Education
Ferguson studied classical piano in London, musicology (Ph.D.) at the University of Vienna and holds a master's degree in music analysis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmkunst.at/filmkunst_neu/kuenstler/ferguson_biographisches.html|title=Biographical Details|last=Ferguson|first=Stephen|access-date=January 31, 2018}} Through his music producing background, Ferguson has attained a reputation as a technologically advanced musician, an additional skill that has offered him employment as an IT expert, such at the University of Vienna's Department of English in the early 2000s.{{Cite web|url=https://archiv-anglistik.univie.ac.at/home/staff-members/ferguson/|title=Department of English|access-date=January 31, 2018}}
Compositions
His compositions have been commissioned, among others, by the Edinburgh Festival, Ars Electronica (Austria), Salzburger Festspiele, WDR, BBC, King's Lynn Festival, Musikverein Wien, ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, steirischer herbst.{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmkunst.at/filmkunst_neu/kuenstler/ferguson_biographisches.html|title=Stephen Ferguson biographical detailts|access-date=January 31, 2018}}
Discography (as solo artist)
Stephen Ferguson: Multitracks, Blackplastic LP 07124 (1983)
Stephen Ferguson: Piano Music, Extraplatte CD 850 088 (1988)
Stephen Ferguson: Piano Wind Brass, Extraplatte CD EX 112 090 (1990)
Current projects
aAmplify, operational since 2000, is a digital music and productions site. In 2009/10, the project was showcased in an exhibit in Vienna's House of Music.{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmkunst.at/filmkunst_neu/animationsfilme/produktions_tagebuecher/aamp_ausst_hdm.html|title=Haus der Musik Program|access-date=January 31, 2018}} The project, sponsored by the City of Vienna's Cultural Office, maintains as its raison-d'etre to "demonstrate Vienna's commitment to the third millenium's non-commercial music and developments in streaming media".{{Cite web|url=http://www.amplify.at/home.htm|title=Amplify|access-date=January 31, 2018}}
Instruments played (incomplete)
References
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