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Stein Eide

Explore my published scores. Official editions for piano, flute, classical guitar, wind quintet, brass quintet and choir, distributed by Universal Edition

To my music

«Silent Wave” was jazzier and more restrained,
falling stylistically somewhere between Rachmaninoff and Kapustin.”

Quote from Milwaukee critic Brendan Fox at a concert performance of my “Silent Wave” for piano

Visit my international publisher
Universal Edition in Vienna

At Universel Edition you can preview my scores and listen to soundfiles of works for piano, flute and piano, guitar, flute and guitar, wind quintet, brass quintet string quintet and choir

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Stein Eide at Universal Edition

“With its commitment to modernism, Universal Edition laid the foundation for a sustainable publishing house at the beginning of the 20th century, which became the artistic home for the great names of a new dawning era in music history.”

Three selected scores

Pianovellas

Listen to “Satie” for piano from collection Pianovellas and prewiew the score by pressing the button below

Flutesteps

Listen to “Step Outside” for flute and piano from collection Flutesteps and preview the score by pressing the button below

Anthems at Anchor

Listen to “Sailor’s Solitude ” for classical guitar from Anthems at Anchor and preview the score by pressing the button below

Creative vision and experience

Creativity

“A melody may carry you anywhere at any time. Still there are lots of melodies to be discovered and the challenge is to find them and capture them”.
 
Working on melodic development and harmonic nuances and structures is very similar to inventing stories like a novelist, playing with rhymes like a poet or exploring colors like a painter. A modern composer has a rich cultural heritage.
 
Composing my music is much about the joy of spontaneous creativity on one hand and the critical self judgement on the other, the yin and yang I always need to balance.

Nominations and Awards

A handful of TV-productions with Stein Eide as a composer have received or been nominated to the international TV awards: “Prix Jeunesse”,” Golden Chest”,” Prix Danube”, and the Norwegian” Gullruten”, while Norwegian radio drama productions “David Copperfield”, “The Weirdstone of Brisingamen”, “Tom Sawyer” and more were released on CD. Stein Eide was the main composer of the Nordic TV series “Myggan” (52 episodes in a collaboration with Swedish SVT, Finnish YLE, Danish DR, and Norwegian NRK).

Music Education

I am educated at the University of Oslo, Norway. I studied with Norwegian composer Maj Sønstevold, jazz-pianist Egil Kapstad, and during one season with saxophonist Jan Garbarek. I also had a Scholarship to the BBC Composers Workshop. For many decades I was a presenter/producer with the music-department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK.

Music Influences


I grew up with a lot of different influences in music, the magic melodies by the Beatles, the modal laid back jazz of the Miles Davis “Kind of Blue» period, all the exiting new recordings of classical composers: Bach, Mozart, Ravel, Stravinsky, or here up north Grieg and Sibelius.

Music Journalism

I was presenter and producer of radio programmes for more than 30 years at the music department of the Norwegian Broadcasting NRK.
As a radio presenter I had live concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for decades and I learned a lot by often following rehearsals and reading the scores.

Scores for sale internationally at Universal Edition

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Stein Eide at Universal Edition

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Scores by composer Stein Eide

Still there are lots of melodies to be discovered !

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