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Steven Kings was born in 1962. He studied music at St John's College Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He now lives in Bristol, playing and teaching the piano, and working as an accompanist, chorus master and conductor. In 1985 he won the Young Composers Competition at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with Snapshots for flute, saxophone, `cello, double bass and percussion. Several of his scores have been shortlisted by the Society for the Promotion of New Music, including Phantasy V (for solo clarinet) in 1984, Window Waiting (for Tenor, Choir and String Quartet) in 1991, and Passion Games (for viola) in 1999. In 2002 Steven was one of the prize winners in the Tong Piano Duet competition, and "red land spring" for piano duet was performed in Tokyo and London. His "haiku mass" was nominated for a British Composer Award in 2003. His setting of the Canticles, Songs of Mary and Simeon, was commissioned by the Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir, and first performed by them at the 2005 Three Choirs Festival.


The SCA online database currently lists 35 scores by Steven Kings.

Title	Year	Instrumentation	Mins	Other Information	Audio	View score	Publ.
After the dissonance...	2005	String Quartet	11-15	Recomposition of Mozart's String Quartet in C, K.465	listen	N/A
bird singing	2003	Soprano + Piano	7-8	Setting five poems by E. E. Cummings	N/A	N/A
Borrowed Latin	2005	Two pianos	4		N/A	N/A
Dawn White	1985	Soprano, Oboe, Viola, Cello, Percussion	4	Setting own text	N/A	N/A
Deviation - Norm	1995	Horn	5-6		N/A	N/A
faithful wounds	2004	Piano	4		N/A	N/A
Fingers Pointing To The Moon	1992	Piano	9-10	Released on CD Dunelm DRD0238, SCA	N/A	N/A
Four Meditations	2003	SATB, Violin, Organ	16-20	Settings from the Bible, David Adam, and Kahlil Gibran	N/A	N/A
Four Songs	1989	Tenor + Piano	7-8	1. Alba (Ezra Pound) 2. Song (Song of Songs) 3. without the mercy of your eyes (E. E. Cummings) 4. Faith (Anon.)	N/A	N/A
haiku mass	2002	SATB + 10 brass	9-10	Setting abbreviated texts from the Latin Mass alongside haiku by modern American poets.	N/A	N/A
Kalomnesis	1999	12 cellos	7-8		N/A	N/A
Les Vitraux de Saint-Séverin	2006	Chamber ensemble	11-15	Fl, Ob, Cl, Bn, Tp, Hn, BTbn, Perc, Pno, 2Vn, Va, Vc, Db	N/A	N/A
More for Kirsty	2006	Piano	5-6	Five easier pieces	N/A	N/A
passion games	1999	Viola	7-8		N/A	N/A
Phantasy III	1994	Trumpet	7-8		N/A	N/A
Phantasy IV	1984	Oboe	5-6		N/A	N/A
Phantasy V	1984	Clarinet	7-8		N/A	N/A
Pieces for Kirsty	2002	Piano	3	Four easier pieces, suitable for learners.	N/A	N/A
red land spring	2002	Piano Duet	7-8	Prizewinner in Tong Piano Duet Competition 2002.	listen	N/A
red land spring (two piano version)	2005	Two pianos	7-8		N/A	N/A
Sextet	2008	Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello	7-8		N/A	N/A
Snap	1988	Flute, Alto Sax, Cello, Double Bass, Marimba	4		N/A	N/A
Snapshots	1988	Flute, Alto Sax, Cello, Double Bass, Percussion	9-10		N/A	N/A
So Springs the Fair Earth	2002	Tenor + Piano	16-20	Setting poems by Jeremy Hullah	N/A	N/A
Sonata	1993	Cello + Piano	11-15		N/A	N/A
Sonata	1982	Piano	9-10		N/A	N/A
Songs of Mary and Simeon	2004	Choir + organ	9-10	Setting of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Greek	N/A	N/A
Supersnap	2006	Chamber ensemble	4	Fl, Cl, Mar, Vn, Va, Vc, Db	N/A	N/A
Ten Bulls	2005	2 Clarinets, Horn, Cello, Piano	11-15	Composed for Hotwells Music Workshop. Suitable for good amateurs. Horn can be played by 3rd clarinet. Cello can be played by bassoon.	N/A	N/A
Three Advent Carols	1994	Choir + organ	5-6	1. Ave, Plena Gracia 2. There Is None Holy 3. A Boy Is Born	N/A	N/A
Three Easier Pieces	1994	Piano	5-6		N/A	N/A
Three Piano Pieces	2002	Piano	9-10		N/A	N/A
Trio	2004	Flute, Trumpet, Viola	11-15		N/A	N/A
waiting for the impure fool	2002	4 Horns	4		N/A	N/A
Window Waiting	1991	Tenor, SATB, String Quartet (or String Orchestra)	11-15	Setting poems by R. S. Thomas 1. Correspondence 2. Inside 3. The Word	N/A	N/A