John Altman has provided arrangements for many hit records including Bjork’s Oh It’s So Quiet, Rod Stewart’s Downtown Train, Kissing A Fool by George Michael, Van Morrison’s Moondance (John played sax in his band and was his md for 7 years!), That Ole Devil Called Love by Alison Moyet, and the Python’s cult single, Always Look On The Bright Side of Life. More details..

Matt Dunkley is one of the film industry’s top arranger/conductors and in the last few months has done arrangements for recordings by Bond, Russell Watson, Amici Forever, Vanessa Mae, Maksim Mrvica and Craig Armstrong. He’s also worked with Badly Drawn Boy, U2, Tom Jones, Catatonia, Melanie C, Pet Shop Boys and more. More details..

Mike Moran was arranger/md on Rod Stewart’s recent Royal Festival Hall concert ‘One Night With Rod’ which was broadcast by BBC TV on October 23. He worked a lot with Freddie Mercury and their major collaboration was the album Barcelona, which he arranged and co-produced, as well as co-writing all the songs with Freddie and Tim Rice. More details..

Craig Pruess is a specialist in Indo/World fusion music but is also a leading string arranger and did the charts for Massive Attack’s 100th Window album and later orchestrated their first film score for Luc’s Besson’s My Name Is Danny. He has also arranged tracks for Elton John, Bond, Maxim, Manic Street Preachers, Def Leppard, Dire Straits and Mike Oldfield, with whom he worked on Tubular Bells II. More details..