Here are links to the booklet and preview film for Steve’s triple album Landscape and Memory Deux-Elles Classical Recordings DXL1202 © 2024. The film features many artists on the album. Released on 18th October 2024.
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Guitarist and composer Stephen Goss explores how one moment – the music student’s initial choice of instrument – creates ripples felt throughout their musical life, reflecting on how this one decision can affect an artist’s understanding and experience of music much further down the line.

8th March 2021 – A century to the day since Spanish composer Manuel de Falla’s iconic Homenaje a Debussy enjoyed its first major performance, Ken Murray performs a new companion piece composed by Stephen Goss.
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“Interpretative technical aspects in Stephen Goss’s solo guitar work composed between 2001 and 2017: The influence of sources in the development of an interpretation” is the title of Rui Mourinho’s recent PhD (2020) from the University of Évora in Portugal. Rui has kindly allowed me to share the PDF of the final thesis. It is written in Portuguese.

This thesis examines how contemporary composers approach counterpoint on the guitar. After a historical overview, the thesis centres on the work of six contemporary composers – Stephen Hough, Angelo Gilardino, Stephen Goss, Tilman Hoppstock, Ross Edwards, and Richard Charlton. Interviews are paired with detailed discussions of representative works for guitar by each composer.
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Matthew Wadsworth talks to Adrian Horsewood, in the May 2019 edition of Classical Music Magazine, about the recently released recording of Stephen Goss’s Theorbo Concerto.

Dan Kyzer wrote his DMA thesis on nihilism in ‘Cinema Paradiso’. In his description of the thesis, Kyzer writes "Stephen Goss composed Cinema Paradiso, a six-movement suite for solo guitar, as an homage to films and film directors. Goss cites nihilism as a theme in Dogville, the film that inspires the fourth movement, “Mandalay,” but I assert that all the films and many musical devices throughout the piece can be read through the lens of nihilism."
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In this book chapter, Charise Hastings discusses Steve’s collaborative process with Jonathan Leathwood while working on Oxen of the Sun. The chapter is published in Music and Sonic Art:
Theories and Practices, edited by John Dack and Mine Doğantan-Dack, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, October 2018.

This article presents an interpretation model focused on the articulation possibilities derived from the consonants classification system. The article used Cantigas de Santiago by Stephen Goss, a setting of seven pieces for solo guitar with themes extracted from the Codex Calixtinus, the Cantigas de Amigo by Martin Codax, and Cantigas de Santa Maria by Afonso X, as a laboratory work to demonstrate the interpretation model. The article is in Portuguese.

Published in Journal of the International Forum for Studies in Music and Dance Vol 4 No 4
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Eclectic Influences: An In-Depth Look at Stephen Goss’s Park of Idols for Cello and Guitar by Dr Kimberly Patterson (University of Memphis). Published in Soundboard, the Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America, Vol.41 No.4 Spring 2016.

An article in the Independent about the forthcoming premiere of Stephen Goss’s Piano Concerto and how the work is based on the designs of Thomas Heatherwick. Published on 2nd April 2013.

This thesis documents the procedures that led to the first performances of Stephen Goss’s guitar cycle: Sonata for Guitar, El Llanto de los Sueños, The Chinese Garden. It analyses Goss’s exploration of resonance, its influence on the structure, its contribution to the character of the work and its influence in the interpretation of these works. The thesis is in Portuguese.
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This keynote paper for the London Guitar Festival was given at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London on 5th June 2011. The topic was the current state of new music for guitar.

This article about Stephen Goss’s collaborative work with Xuefei Yang was published in Classical Guitar Magazine in January 2011.

This article is an extract from Jonathan Leathwood’s PhD thesis (University of Surrey 2010).

Cover Article, New Notes, March 2005
Journal of the Society for the Promotion of New Music (now Sound and Music)

Guitar Forum 1, EGTA: September 2001

Myths of tradition and heritage in concert repertoire and didactic methodology.
The Journal of the European Guitar Teachers’ Association 2000

This publication was originally a unit from the Mtpp (Music Teaching in Private Practice) post-graduate course devised by the ISM in partnership with the University of Reading. There are chapters on sight reading, transcribing, arranging, editing, improvisation and composition.

I wrote this short series of articles in 1987 as part of my studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The articles were published in four instalments in Classical Guitar Magazine from October 1989 to January 1990.