Stephen Large

Stephen Large
Keyboardist, composer and arranger
Website	stephenlarge.com

Stephen Large is an English, London-based keyboard player, composer, arranger, and long term member of UK band Squeeze.

Stephen Large is Musical Director for pop artists Caro Emerald, Rebecca Ferguson and Duffy.

As a keyboard player, Large has worked with Paloma Faith, Rumer, Pete Doherty, Babyshambles, the Noisettes, Johnny Depp, music hall with Colin Firth, and others, as well as being a founder member of jazz outfits The Rag 'n' Bone Club and Ronnie Scott's Rejects.

Large received web notoriety after an appearance with Squeeze on the US Jimmy Fallon Show, during which he played a keyboard solo on the new Apple iPad for the song "Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)". This appears to be the first use on live TV of the iPad as a musical instrument. Further TV credits include The Jay Leno Show with Duffy, Britain's Got Talent with Rebecca Ferguson, The Ellen DeGeneres Show with Squeeze, Parkinson with Rod Stewart, dueting with Glenn Tilbrook on Later With Jools Holland, and appearing in CBBC's Big Babies.

He left Christchurch College, Canterbury with a first class degree in art and music, and had an early breakthrough with the band Koot, who were initially signed to the Warner Records label, releasing a single album Skyjacked through Some Bizzare in 2001.Koot also contributed the song "Sunshine at Last" to the soundtrack of the film Saving Grace. After a spell as keyboard player for the Mercury Award nominated and Q Award winning band The Electric Soft Parade, Large contributed his skills to recordings by The Ordinary Boys, Graham Coxon, The Shortwave Set, Sonny J, Simply Red, Lucky Soul and Marina and the Diamonds, amongst others. He is also a long-term member of Glenn Tilbrook's The Fluffers, for whom he has co-written songs with the Squeeze frontman.