Stephen Lawrence Pruslin (16 April 1940 – 25 September 2022) was an American pianist and librettist who relocated to London in the 1970s to work with Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle.
He studied composition with Roger Sessions and his piano teachers were Luise Vosgerchian and Eduard Steuermann (the Schoenberg pupil who played in the first performance of Pierrot Lunaire).
[1] Whilst still a Graduate student, Pruslin had performed live recitals in New York City, and elsewhere in the USA, with the American soprano Bethany Beardslee.
[8] As a composer Pruslin wrote scores for theatre, film and television, including some arrangements for Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979) and the musical sequences for Peter Ustinov's play Beethoven's Tenth (1983), which was produced on Broadway and in London.
[10] In 1989 Pruslin appeared in an episode of the ITV television drama series Agatha Christie's Poirot as a pianist.