Stephen Benjamin Kemp (November 8, 1849 – October 30, 1918) was an English pianist, piano pedagogue, music editor, and composer.
[1] Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, Stephen Kemp was trained at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where he attended as a scholarship student for a three-year period.
His teachers at the RAM included brothers George and Walter Macfarren, William Sterndale Bennett, Otto Goldschmidt, John Goss, and Ernst Pauer.
In 1871 he gave a highly successful concert tour of England and Wales with the clarinetist Henry Lazarus.
After this he taught piano concurrently on the faculties of the RAM and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama up until his death in 1918.