“The original score by Euan Stevenson is excellent."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“…this (animation) feels special…the easily identifiable motifs of composer Euan Stevenson’s score fuse all the components together beautifully.”
The List ****

Film music runs in Euan Stevenson’s family. His grandmother, on whose Steinway piano Euan composes, was the first woman to graduate from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). Her cousin was the prolific film soundtrack Musical Director, Muir Mathieson (pictured above), who conducted the music for iconic films Vertigo and Brief Encounter among more than a thousand films. Another cousin was the composer Cedric Thorpe Davie who studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Zoltán Kodály and wrote music for films such as The Green Man, Robin Hood and Disney’s Rob Roy.

With these large shoes to fill, Stevenson’s own Film and TV highlights reflect his versatility as both a composer and performer. He composed and orchestrated the score for the RSNO/Visible Fiction’s children’s animation ‘Yoyo and The Little Auk’ (featuring on BBC ALBA TV and Charanga Music Platform and originally narrated by Game of Thrones actor James Cosmo). He provided live musical accompaniment with his jazz piano trio for the BBC Horizon Documentary: The Right Diet For You and his avant-garde solo piano improvisations and themes provided the original music soundtrack for 2018 BIFA Discovery Award winning feature film, Voyageuse, starring Dame Siân Phillips. Guardian Chief Film Critic Peter Bradshaw described Stevenson’s music as ‘excellent’ and selected the film as one of his top ten documentaries (worldwide) of 2018. As a session musician, Stevenson played piano and celeste on the soundtrack for feature film ‘Stella’ (starring Gary Lewis) which won Best Drama at the Melech Tel-Aviv International Film Festival.

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Three Alternative Soundtracks

Sometimes I watch a film that resonates strongly and I wonder how a particular piece of mine just might complement the cinematography or the animation. Here are three short ‘alternative soundtracks’ where I had some fun experimenting with setting some of my existing recordings to the film sequences
in place of the original soundtracks:

‘The Danish Boy’ - alternative soundtrack: Hungarian Film Waltz, written and performed by Euan Stevenson
‘UP’ and ‘The Preciousness of Time’ - alternative soundtracks entitled Hymn For Sheila and Nostalgia written by Euan Stevenson and performed by Earthtones Trio.