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Born in Ottawa, Canada, Stephan Nesrallah has been performing his own special blend of folk, rock, and children's music for more than twenty-five years. A composer, lyricist, recording artist, entertainer, actor and educator with more than eight hundred songs and four volumes of poetry to his credit, he sings, and plays guitar, piano and keyboards.

As a teenager, Stephan was awarded two scholarships to the Banff School of Fine Arts to study musical theatre, dance and voice. He studied Honours English at Carleton University, where he was very active in the university theatre company staring in numerous plays. His acting took him to Toronto were he performed with several theatre companies before joining Canada's internationally-renowned Stratford Festival Company and the Stratford Festival Touring Company. When the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, under the direction of Albert Millaire, was invited to perform "La Guerre, Yes Sir" by Rock Carrier at Stratford's Avon Theatre Stephan was one of four english actors chosen to join the company for their summer engagement. After spending five exciting seasons in Stratford, Stephan gave up a budding career as an actor to devote full time to his music.

Stephan created original music for a number of theatrical productions, among them "Bethune, Bethune". He was the first of his generation to meet with the Chinese Consulate, when the Chinese Embassy first opened in Canada, on Bronson Ave. in Ottawa, to learn about their traditional music and about the role Bethune played in China.

Under the mentorship of Dr. Frederick Karam, he went on to complete further studies at the University of Ottawa in advanced harmony, polyphonic composition, keyboard musicianship, and solfege.

Stephan's entertainment career has included the production of two successful albums, "Space Traveller" and "Transition". Internationally famous skater and artist Toller Cranston created the multi-coloured illustration featured on the front cover of Space Traveller. Seven singles taken from the two albums received extensive air-play both nationally and internationally. The single "Nightwings" achieved "number one" on the Canadian charts. One of his early compositions, "Stephan's Lament" was recently recorded in Ireland and received considerable air-play the UK and Europe. Stephan has produced and recorded several CD's as well, with his latest to be released this coming year. Stephan has performed solo; with "The Perth County Conspiracy d.n.e."; "Free Cabaret"; his band "Dreamer"; and with his music partner Dave Kalil, as part of the legendary duo"Kalil & Nesrallah". Stephan performed 42 - 46 weeks a year and "Kalil & Nesrallah" were one of the most popular musical duos of their time playing to sold out audiences everywhere they toured.

Although Stephan has enjoyed a busy music career, he has always worked closely with the mentally and physically challenged, youth organizations, boys' and girls' clubs, and children in general. He has been a guest lecturer at universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools conducting workshops in music and theatre, funded in part by the Ontario Arts Council. His goal was to challenge and inspire our youth.

From 1987 to 1992, Stephan toured schools in Ontario, Labrador and Newfoundland and parts of the USA with story-teller, author, founder of Youth Corps, and Order Of Canada recipient Father Tom McKillop. Their widely-acclaimed concert presentations combined music and story-telling with the theme "Youth - The Journey In Search Of Meaning," based on the works of Dr. Viktor Frankl. They provided more than 200,000 young people with a forum to deal with the hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties which they face every day.

For 20 years, during the months of November and December, Stephan performed his unique children's Christmas show he co-created with his friend and long time music partner Dave Kalil.

Stephan has appeared many times on the CBC TV Concert In The Parks series and on numerous music variety shows on CTV, CBC and Global. Stephan also record music for the 1999 PAN-AM games in Winnipeg for CBC Sports. The lyrics for his song "Hard Working" from the "Space Traveller" album won special recognition and were placed on a plaque and displayed on the 5th floor of Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. Stephan is actively involved with his family in their church choir and is currently in production of two new albums to be released this coming year.