Stephen Edwards, who has died aged 63, was by his own admission a dreadful student at school until a teacher lit his spark for music. By the sixth form he had composed an opera, and a decade later he was working with Sir Peter Hall in the West End and on Broadway.
As Hall’s musical director, Stephen wrote the scores for acclaimed theatre productions such as Orpheus Descending (1989), starring Vanessa Redgrave, and Hamlet (1994), with Stephen Dillane. He also composed the music for Hall’s 1992 TV adaptation of The Camomile Lawn.
