His home, his studio and his wife Gina, all exude this comfortable ease and
when Stewart begins to play his rosewood Steinway, one of his two grand pianos,
the rich emotive tones flow with similar ease from his fingers, permeating every
crevice of the living room.

His music refuses to be categorised. Stewart’s melodies are instrumental
not ambient or new age. They are the sort of songs you can’t stop listening to,
the sort of songs that can move your heart.

Stewart Dudley was born in London, England. He began playing the piano at
six years of age and composing small pieces, and continued on with classical
training. He has always loved classical forms of music among his favorite
composers are J. S. Bach, Chopin, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Faure.
Classical music has undoubtedly been a source of inspiration in his style of
music composition.

Stewart remembers the first piano lessons involved colouring in a picture each
week along side the music to play on each page and that, together with the
white milk chocolate bar as an added incentive, encouraged him to attend.

His parents entered him in piano competitions when he was nine and he recalls
the first time he played in public where he has memorised the piece and once
he was seated a the piano suffered his first stage fright and could not remember
the music for a few minutes before he subsequently regained his composure,
playing the piece and successfully winning the competition.

As a young teenager in the late 1960’s, Stewart performed with various
rock bands in England where his favoured instrument as a Farfisa electric organ,
one of the few keyboards available for rock groups at that time. However, his
first love was always the grand piano and remains so to this day. His knowledge
of classical music is quite extensive and although he is no stranger to the varying
styles of music, he is undoubtedly, strongly influenced by the classics as the
unique blend of melody and romantic styling is evident in his compositions.

In 1981 he immigrated to Australia and started concentrating on composing,
arranging and performing his original instrumental music. He has released
10 CD’s in Australia to date and will be recording another 2 albums this year.
His music is played by various local and national radio stations including the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, by local and national radio stations including
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, by Fox Satellite television, SBS Television
and restaurants and cafes throughout Australia.

Stewart is certainly no stranger to the varying styles of music and is equally at
home with performing pop, jazz, classical and film compositions although his
interest is now strongly directed toward the melodic film and television side of
the music industry.

In June 2001 Stewart won “Best Song” category exceeding 650 entries in the
“Johnny Dennis Music Awards” (presented at Government House, Sydney) with
his music written for the song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”. He was also
awarded 5th and 8th place against 2000 entries for his Sound Track category
in the Australian Songwriter’s National Competition in 2000 for the tracks
“Strangers no More” and “Never Alone” from his CD titled “Strangers no More”.

During 1991, he composed and recorded the CD “Touch of the Sun” which
featured well known Australian artists such as Tommy Emmanuel, Andrew Oh,
Larry Mahobrac, Leon Gaer and David Jones. This creative CD generated a
greater following and interest in Stewart’s music. In 2002, he entered and won
“Best Song” category in the Johnny Dennis Music Awards at Government House
in Sydney for his composition “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”. To date (2007)
Stewart has composed and released 15 successful CDs, which have been marketed
in Australia, Canada, USA and Asia under three different labels. His latest
album released in 2007 “By Request” is covers of some of his favorite cuts.

This website allows visitors the ability to actually listen to ALL of Stewarts
music. We invite you to sample and enjoy his music.

The grand piano sound of Stewart Dudley is like a soundtrack of life, awaiting your discovery.

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