Stephen McNeff (born 6 September 1951) is an Irish composer, best known for his work in contemporary theatre and opera.
[2] He studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and undertook post-graduate research at the University of Exeter.
From 1980−84, as Composer in Residence and Associate Director of the Music Theatre Studio Ensemble of the Banff Centre and then Comus Theatre Canada, he won a Dora Mavor Moore Award[3] for his opera The Secret Garden (1985) based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Eliot's The Wasteland by the Donmar for the BOC Covent Garden festival in 1994 brought him wider attention.
[6] During his three-year tenure, he wrote a number of major works for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its contemporary counterpart Kokoro.