Stephen Edwards is one of today’s most in-demand film and television composers. An accomplished pianist who can be heard on Hollywood’s top soundtracks, Edwards has also won acclaim for his orchestral and choral compositions that have been performed at Carnegie Hall and the Vatican. He has also recently started producing his own films, with 2 completed projects to his credit and more to come.

As one of Hollywood’s most prolific composers, Edwards’ original compositions are featured in top grossing films including the multiple Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club, Nomadland, Ava, Southpaw, The Mechanic, Amelia, I Love You Philip Morris, and over 50 other films in genres ranging from comedy to action, martial arts and documentaries. Edwards received the Hollywood Film & TV Music Award for his original score to the 2008 film Finding Rin-Tin-Tin and a 2nd award in 2017 for “Requiem”. Current projects he is scoring include Linked and his score to Syndrome K. His original songs and instrumental compositions can be heard on television series such as Two and a Half Men, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mad Men, The Blacklist, ER, Transparent, and over 50 other series. 

In 2017, Edwards’ first feature-length documentary, Requiem for My Mother was released by American Public Television. The film, which was inspired by his mother and musical muse Rosalie Edwards, is produced and co-directed by Edwards and chronicles the creation of his original choral and orchestral composition of the same name, and the journey to its premiere before an audience of television, radio and concert-goers at a prestigious musical festival in Vatican City. Edwards’ Requiem earned high praise from acclaimed composer John Williams, who wrote “Your requiem is a lovely work! It seems heartfelt and honest, and contains a delicate innocence…making it touching tribute to a Mother from a loving son.”

In 2021, Edwards’ second feature-length documentary Syndrome K will be released worldwide. The film is the gripping story of 3 doctors in a Catholic hospital in Rome during the Nazi occupation of 1943-44 that made up a fake disease that saved Roman Jews from deportation to Auschwitz. The score was performed by orchestras from around the world, including Moscow, Prague, Rome, Budapest, London and Los Angeles.

Earlier orchestral and choral compositions by Edwards include Missa Brevis, which celebrated its premiere at the Music Sacra Festival in Vatican City in 2012, Ave Maria Mass, which premiered with a 200-voice choir and orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 2004 and was commissioned by Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan, and Christmas Time In The City, two medleys of famous sacred and traditional Christmas carols for orchestra and chorus which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2009. 

The soundtrack of Requiem For My Mother, Edwards’ third commercially-released recording, peaked at #3 on the Billboard Classical Charts in 2017 and was on the Grammy Awards ballot for Outstanding Choral Composition. Earlier recordings include his solo piano album, Piano Music from the Movies which pays homage to the film music that moved Edwards through his childhood, and Ave Maria Mass & Suite For the Americas, a 9/11 tribute album that has been hailed as a “magnificent work” and “a moving tribute to the victims of 9/11.” New piano albums are planned for release in 2021, including Piano Music From Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen, also planned is Main Titles From Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen, also Jazz Piano Featured in Movies and TV and finally Channeling Chopin.

Edwards’ music education began at an early age, with training by his mother, Rosalie Edwards. His musical passions broadened and deepened during his years as a student at Interlochen followed by studies at Lawrence University, where he received a bachelor of music in piano performance. While studying at Lawrence, Edwards won the Outstanding Classical Soloist award sponsored by Downbeat magazine, and the All-American College Orchestra National Talent Search sponsored by Disney World. He was recently honored with the school’s Nathan M. Pusey Young Alumni Achievement Award. Edwards continued his studies at the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles.

Edwards is founder and artistic director of Source in Sync, an independent production music library that licenses music to NBC, CBS, ABS, Fox, WB, Paramount, and many other television and movie studios worldwide. He also co-founded mVibe in 2019, which is the largest licensing platform in the world for cover recordings of hit songs.

A citizen of both the United States and Italy, Edwards lives in California with his two daughters. When not composing and playing music, he enjoys golf, hiking and collecting Steinway pianos.