James Michael Stevens

James Michael Stevens is a prolific composer and arranger residing in Nashville, Tennessee and the Dean of the School of Music at Welch College in Gallatin, TN. 

Stevens was born in Ft. Worth, Texas and grew up in Alabama. He has degrees from Samford University, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Stevens currently has more than 8,100 music publications at Sheet Music Plus as well as additional publications with many world wide main stream publishers and over 75 piano solo albums on Spotify (documented with the link to every album) and other albums as well. He is a voting member of the GRAMMYs at The Recording Academy. Stevens' music can be heard on streaming platforms worldwide including on: Pandora Radio, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube and others. He is also a Whisperings Piano Solo Artist.

Currently at Sheet Music Plus Stevens has more piano solo compositions published than any composer including Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. Stevens' works for organ are now performed around the world. Listen to Carson Cooman, Composer in Residence, Harvard University Memorial Church, splendid performances of more than 300 of Stevens' organ works on his YouTube channel.

A song written by James Michael Stevens and Joseph M. Martin, "Without Love... We Have Nothing," continues to be an international sensation with more than 300 different commercial CDs containing it being recorded in Korea, China, Japan, the U.S., Europe and more than 2,800 performances of Without Love (내가 천사의 말 한다 해도) on YouTube and over a million listings on Google. It has now been arranged and performed in almost every genre available. His music can also be heard on network TV such as on The Young and the Restless.

James Michael Stevens
jstevens@welch.edu

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