About

Stephan Earl was born in Queens, NY. Although he wasn’t born into a family of musicians, Stephan grew up as a child listening to music his parents loved by such artists as Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Nat King Cole and other classic soul and R&B music of the 60’s and 70’s. At age eleven he learned to play the clarinet and within the year aded flute and tenor saxophone to his woodwind arsenal. At age 12, Stephan’s Aunt purchased for him a two-octave Casio keyboard which he used to compose his first melodies. Stephan took to composing music naturally, and taught himself to play the piano in order to better work on musical compositions.

Stephan auditioned and was accepted to New York’s “Famed” LaGuardia High School for Music and Performing Arts. During these formative years he played tenor sax in the school Jazz Band, bass clarinet in the concert band, and at home started producing music for many local R&B and Hip-Hop artists. During his last year at LaGuardia, Stephan switched his focus of study to the newly developed Electronic Music Composition program where he honed his craft of writing music using the latest electronic tools. Later that year Stephan received a scholarship to attend the Jazz Music Composition program at the Manhattan School of Music. Through college, Stephan continued to compose music while also producing local artists.