Stephen Watkins was born in 1954. He attended the Guidhall School of Music in London majoring on Trombone and piano.
His main interest however while at the Guildhall was really composition and benefitted from the tuition of very diverse composition professors.
On leaving college Stephen took up employment as classroom music teacher in the United Kingdom and then later after a brief spell in Iceland specialised in instrumental teaching. For the last 20 years he has worked in a music school in Germany where he is currently the principal.
In his mid fourties a medical crisis meant that brass playing at a professional level was not really an option and Stephen converted to the cello as his main instrument. This was a life changing decision!
Stephens works and arrangements are published by publishing houses in the US, Holland, Austria and Germany and include pieces for brass, recorders, and strings.
