Stephen graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK, in June 2008 with a BA in Music. Stephen is also a pianist, having achieved a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM) in Piano Performance in December 2004. Stephen has written scores to several short films, some of which have been shown at film festivals, including one that was shown at the Rushes Soho Shorts festival in London.

As a pianist, Stephen first studied with Dr. Stephen Collison, then Ian Jones at the Royal College of Music, London, UK, and finally between 2002-2005 with Professor Malcolm Wilson, Head of Piano at the Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK. Between 2000 and 2003, Stephen entered and won numerous regional and national festival classes and competitions (including invitational competitions) and in 2004 was selected as a performer as part of the Knowle Sinfonia’s (now the Solihull Symphony Orchestra, UK) ‘Rising Stars’ programme, where he performed the first movement of his own Piano Concerto. Between 2004 and 2005 I was leader of both Solihull School's 'Symphony Orchestra' and 'String Ensemble', and in his final year at school he was the soloist in a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto. In addition to solo performances, Stephen has performed in bands and pit orchestras for musical productions almost every year since he was 14. Before moving to study at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Stephen spent three years teaching piano to pupils of all ages and standards, something Stephen enjoyed immensely and took great pride in.

In 2002, Stephen was the first winner of the UK competition ‘Cathcart Spring Prom Young Composer of the Year’ for composers aged 11-18, with his piece for symphony orchestra, ‘Jubilee Celebration’. The piece was performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Arnold.

In addition to writing orchestral and ensemble music, Stephen also writes electronic music. In 2007, Stephen wrote a short electronic track entitled ‘Let’s Move’ for the Microsoft ‘Xbox Soundtracks’ competition, where he had to write music for an Xbox video game trailer. Stephen's track was one of the Top 10 tracks selected from UK submissions that went forward to a world-wide public vote on the Xbox website.

Stephen studied ‘Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television’ at the University of Southern California, graduating in May 2009, during which time he studied under working industry professionals. These people included the composers Christopher Young, Joel McNeely, Jack Smalley, and Blake Neely, as well as orchestrators Brad Dechter and Pete Anthony, and Variety Magazine columnist and journalist Jon Burlingame. Stephen has also had the privilege of meeting and working with sound engineers Dennis Sands and Bobby Fernandez on the course scoring sessions, as well as the opportunity to meet such film composers as Harry Gregson-Williams, Alan Silvestri, Ed Shearmur, Teddy Shapiro, Bear McCreary and directors such as Stephen Sommers.

During his tenure at USC, Stephen scored a plethora of short films and video game projects, one of which included the video game 'Kid The World Saver', which was a finalist at the 2009 Independent Games Festival Student Showcase and was presented at the Game Developers Conference in March 2009.

Since graduating from USC, Stephen has continued to work as a composer, orchestrator and arranger, as well as in a host of other musical capacities working on films, webseries, commercials and the like. Stephen was an additional orchestrator on the feature film, 'Der Grosse Kater', starring Bruno Ganz ('Downfall'), and '2 Girls 1 Cop', a web pilot for Atom.com that was scored by Stephen, was recently aired on Comedy Central as part of the 'The Best of Atom TV' programme.