Forming the Police in 1977 as a punk trio with original guitarist Henry Padovani, Copeland and Sting also worked as session musicians. Gigging his way through the U.K., he met one of the Englishmen that changed the course of his musical career: bassist Gordon Sumner (aka Sting). “It’s true, of course, every musician has delusions of grandeur, and to have just any inkling of affirmation is very big.” (Fun fact: Those 16 bars eventually made their way into “ Does Everyone Stare” off the Police’s second album, Reggatta de Blanc).Ĭopeland returned to England after college, acting as a road manager for Curved Air and eventually becoming their drummer. “That sounds like, you know, faint praise! But how did I kvell!” Copeland says. “Stewart,” he remembers her saying, “there’s all these mistakes, but this is actual music.” He recalls her noting that he included parallel fourths, “‘but I kind of see why you did that because it created tension,’” he says, quoting his teacher 50 years later. Phillips went through her students’ work, praising each of them before playing Copeland’s. ” Not a natural pianist (“I can either play the chords perfectly out of rhythm or play the cool rhythm with it, with the wrong notes”), Copeland brought his composition to class for review. “One day when she gave us all our homework,” recalls Copeland: “Write 16 bars with no parallel fourths or fifths, obeying all the rules. Phillips where the first inkling of a burgeoning career as a composer reared its head. It was in a composition class taught by Dr.
First, when his family moved to England when he was teen, then when he enrolled in San Diego’s California Western University (which has since evolved into two different schools). For Stewart, a pair of drumsticks were placed into his hands at the age of seven and have yet to be removed. Records Ian became a promoter and booking agent. For Copeland’s older brothers, Ian and Miles III, playing did not take, though both ended up in the music industry-Miles managed the Police and cofounded I.R.S. Copeland’s father, a former jazz musician, insisted that his children play musical instruments. One of our family jokes is that one day, Miles, my brother, comes home from school and says ‘Dad, are you a spy?’ And my father says, ‘Who wants to know?'”ĭue to his father’s career as an international man of mystery, his family moved to Cairo shortly after his birth, then to Beirut when he was 5. He wrote his first book and there it was in the liner notes. “I didn’t find out about it until I was in college in California. “Yeah, when I was born, Daddy was away on business installing a dictator in Egypt,” Copeland tells City Paper matter-of-factly. Just how did he go about mastering so many genres? It all started in Virginia.īorn in Alexandria in 1952, Copeland started life as any child of a government worker would, assuming that the parent (in this case, his father, Miles Copeland, Jr. Over the last 40 years, Copeland has methodically built a music career so diverse-from punk to opera-that it is unmatched by any of his contemporaries. Stewart Copeland, the former drummer of the Police? Stewart Copeland, the film composer responsible for the scores of more than 50 movies including Rumble Fish and Wall Street? That Stewart Copeland? Yes. But anyone who took the time to read all the nominations might have been surprised when they came upon those for Best New Age Album and saw the names Ricky Kej and Stewart Copeland listed for their Divine Tides.
Every Thursday afternoon he leads a sing-along at Tall Oaks Assisted Living in Reston.When the nominations for the 2022 Grammys were announced late last year, the media, as they are wont to do, focused on what are considered the “main” categories-Album of the Year, Record of the Year, etc.-extolling those nominees while ignoring most others. Every Monday Justin plays accordion at Tryst Coffee House in Adam’s Morgan 8-10 PM. Every Sunday morning he serves at Saint Matthew’s United Methodist of Annandale playing keyboard for the modern service. Justin usually keeps a teaching studio of 35-45 students. He has conducted orchestras for musical theater, coordinated and performed church music programs, plays accordion for farmer's markets, restaurants, Oktoberfest, and coffee houses, plays jazz for private events, hotels, weddings, and parties frequently, and studied classical Indian Hindustani music to perform on harmonium and sitar, once even for the Kennedy Center. He has led rock groups, once opening for the famous Jefferson Starship. He has worked with several different music acts. Justin is an active performer in the Metropolitan area. Member of the Music Teacher National Association Member of the Washington Metropolitan Accordion Society Masters of Music in Piano Pedagogy from George Mason Universityīachelor of Arts in Music, Jazz Studies Minor, from George Mason University
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