Allan Stephenson (15 December 1949 – 2 August 2021) was a British-born South African composer, cellist and conductor.
Born in Wallasey, near Liverpool, he studied the cello in Manchester at the Royal Manchester College of Music before moving to Cape Town in 1973 to join the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra.
[4] He directed the UCT College Orchestra from 1978 to 1988 and taught as a part-time lecturer of both cello and composition at the University of Cape Town.
Mike Campbell and Peter Louis van Dijk composed the other two acts of this Naledi award-winning production.
[5][6] Stephenson has written over 110 works including a large number of instrumental and chamber pieces, three operas, two symphonies and concertos for Piano, Oboe and Piccolo.