In 2025 there will be 7 new releases of Steve’s music. Next up is A Concerto of Colours for wind orchestra and guitar with soloist Nicholas Goluses, which is being released on the Albany label on September 19th. Then there are three albums for Decca Classics featuring Steve’s arrangements for Nicola Benedetti, Alexandra Whittingham, Jess Gillam, and Kaori Muraji. New recordings of Steve’s pieces Motherlands, the Welsh Folksongs, and his concerto for two guitars and strings Landscape and Memory have already been released earlier in the year. More details soon…

‘Landscape and Memory’ is the new critically acclaimed triple album of Steve’s music, released on the Deux-Elles label. Artists include John Williams, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Max Baillie, Thomas Carroll, Zoran Dukic, Aniello Desiderio, SoloDuo, Stephen Farr, the Asaka quartet, and many others.

Here’s a link to the album preview film.

Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan recorded Steve’s Landscape and Memory concerto for two guitars and strings in September 2024 with Canadian ensemble Collectif9, directed by Thibault Bertin-Maghit. The Re/String album was released on the Leaf Music label on February 14th 2025. Re/String features 6 composers and 6 commissions and was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Nicholas Goluses has recorded A Concerto of Colours with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. The album will be released on 19th September on Parma Recordings’ Albany label.

The Omni Foundation in partnership with D’Addario strings have recently sponsored a number of films of Steve’s music that is featured on his latest album Landscape and Memory. The films feature the artists SoloDuo, Alexander-Sergei Ramirez and Sheila Arnold, Emily Andrews and Francisco Correa, the Asaka Quartet, and Max Baillie.

The third single from Steve’s new triple album Landscape and Memory is out now on the Deux-Elles label, streaming on all platforms. Marylebone Elegy for guitar and orchestra is the slow movement from Steve’s Guitar Concerto. The soloist is John Williams and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Paul Daniel.

The second single from Steve’s new triple album Landscape and Memory is out now on the Deux-Elles label, streaming on all platforms. Precipitato is the final movement of Caught Between for cello – Thomas Carroll and piano – Graham Caskie.

The first single from Steve’s new triple album Landscape and Memory is out now on the Deux-Elles label, streaming on all platforms. ‘Negroni’ is taken from Cocktail List for two guitars. The guitarists on the recording are Aniello Desiderio and Zoran Dukić.

In June 2924, Artyom Dervoed and the Russian National Orchestra released Steve’s new arrangement of Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango, for guitar, bayan, strings, and percussion. The album is available on all streaming platforms on the Prima Classic label.

Steve’s cello and guitar piece Still Life has been nominated for a prestigious Ivor Novello Award in the chamber music composition category.

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