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We are pleased to welcome composer/arranger Mike Sheppard to the roster. His credits include both features and television drama, as well as classical concert works - see his page for further details. Meanwhile: John Altman completed the features The Master Builder and Shoot On Sight starring Brian Cox, Greta Scacchi and Sadie Frost - both films recently premiered; Tim Atack scored Ricky Gervais' first Hollywood movie as writer/director/star, The Invention of Lying, which received great reviews in the US and UK and he has now completed Ricky's new feature, Cemetery Junction, after scoring the UK feature Re-Uniting The Rubins for producer Jonathan Weissler; Andrew Barnabas & Paul Arnold have written the music for the new Talkback Thames series The King Is Dead and are now on Brink, a new video game by leading US producers Bethesda Softworks; Willie Dowling scored Caught In The Act for Carnaby Films which premieres soon and recently finished new Greenlit 2- part comedy drama Vexed; Matt Dunkley's score for CBBC's new drama series Spirit Warriors is attracting lots of critical praise; busy Nick Harvey has completed several new series including Luke Gamble: Vet Adventures which starts on Sky 1 last weekend in February and Tiger Aspect's Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man which runs on BBC3 from March 4 ; Paul Heard's score is a major feature of Formosa Film's movie Clubbed now on general release; Belfast composer Neil Martin has delivered the score for Hell's Pavement for director Andy Kemp; Mike Moran has finished the features Blessed, for Storm Pictures, starring James Nesbitt, and A Fox's Tale for Parallel Pictures and is now on the feature Harmony for Tomori Films; Craig Pruess' music for the recent 3-part BBC drama Moses Jones was hailed by one critic as "the oustanding soundtrack of the year' and has just finished the BBC's Five Days, which starts on BBC1 on March 1, after first completing Gurnder Chadha's new feature It's A Wonderful Afterlife which premieres this spring; Ben Salisbury's music for the BBC series Nature's Great Events was performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at Bristol's Colston Hall on September 22 compered and narrated by Sir David Attenborough and received enthusiastic reviews and now completed Inside The Perfect Predator for the BBC's Natural History Unit; Graham Walker was Music Production Supervisor on Planet 51 the animation feature produced by Ilion and Handmade Films which was released worldwide in Nov/Dec and is now on Tomori Films' Harmony.

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SMA Talent Ltd

SMA Talent is one of the UK’s leading film/tv composer management companies with a solid reputation throughout the international film communities, major tv broadcasters and production companies.

Some of our clients also produce records, write songs, music for advertising commercials and provide arrangements and orchestrations for leading film composers, record producers and record companies. We have an associate company in Los Angeles for reciprocal representation.

In 2004 we expanded our management activities to include screenwriters and directors and also added a music supervisor to the talent roster.

SMA is run by the husband and wife team of Olav and Carolynne Wyper who have more than 20 years experience of working with producers and composers in many countries. Iain Rousham, formerly Head of Music at Granada Television, joined the company in 2007 and in 2009 Jo Webster joined as executive assistant.

SMA clients have provided scores for:

the films:
The Invention of Lying
Cemetery Junction
Harmony
A Short Stay In Switzerland
Clubbed
Stormbreaker
The Master Builder
Shoot on Sight
Redline
Blessed
Caught In The Act
The Lonely Stag
Bride & Prejudice
Shall We Dance
Highlander – The Source
Wounded Knee
Mistress of Spices
Little Voice
Bend It Like Beckham
Manon Des Source
Joy Division
D’Artagnan & The Three Musketeers
Gale Force 10
The Truth
Hear My Song
RKO 281
Funny Bones
Among Giants
Winters Tale
Time Bandits
The Missionary
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Jean De Florette

tv productions:
Five Days
Vexed
Moses Jones
Spirit Warriors
Nature’s Great Events
Never Better
Life In Cold Blood
Sold
Octavia
Willy’s Wonky Chocolate Factory
Fallen Angel
The Good Samaritan
Spooks
Impact Earth
No 13
Reichenbach Falls
Life In The Undergrowth
The Queen’s Sister
Mysterious Creatures
Galapagos
Mr Harvey Lights a Candle
The Nature of Britain
The Illustrated Mum
The Secret Show
The Quartermass Experiment
Much Ado About Nothing
Dalziel & Pascoe
New Tricks
The Brief
Jericho
If I Had You
Fallen
Michael Palin & The Mystery of the Hammershoi
Ahead Of the Class
Marion Again
Taggart
Silent Witness
Sherlock
The Rotter’s Club
Krakatoa – The Final Days

and more..

We previously worked for many years in the record and music publishing industries and therefore bring a valuable music business background and understanding to benefit both clients and producers.

We’ve also managed recording artists and performers, acted as consultants to major international corporations and Olav has co-produced shows in London’s West End and on UK tours.