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WINNER 2015

Jerry Goldsmith Awards Laurel

BEST COMPOSER, 2013

UPCOMING LIVE PERFORMANCES

March 28th/29th and April 4th/5th 2023 - THE CUTLASS CREW - US Premiere performances... North Cambridge Family Opera will raise the curtain on their new Massachusetts production of Stuart's opera The Cutlass Crew, first performed by London Youth Opera (formerly W11 Opera) in 2017. Two full community casts will take to the high seas across two weekends in North Cambridge, Boston. Join them for this rip-roaring Elizabethan pirate romp, with advance tickets now on sale here.

December 2023 (details TBC) - PANDORA'S BOX - World Premiere... The newly christened London Youth Opera will unveil their newest commissioned work - and their first back live on stage since 2019 - Stuart and librettist Donald Sturrock's contemporary take on Pandora's Box. Preliminary info here with performance dates and venue to be announced soon.

LATEST NEWS

February 2023: KENSUKE'S KINGDOM... Stuart has completed work on the symphonic score for the feature film KENSUKE'S KINGDOM, an animated adaptation of the Michael Morpurgo book of the same name. Stay tuned for news of releases of both the soundtrack and the film itself.

ALBUMS NOW AVAILABLE:

  • RAPTURES - (concert works album)
  • CRAZYHEAD
  • WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT
  • ATLANTIS
  • THE LAST BELLE
  • HAWK
  • THE DESERT TREASURE
  • ONE NIGHT IN TURIN
  • UNDERGROUND
  • BODYGUARD: A NEW BEGINNING

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