Over the 22 years he worked with Phil Redmond, Steve wrote and produced all the music and songs for Brookside, Grange Hill and his theme and title music are still featured on Hollyoaks, which has been running for 15 years. His film credits for the companies included The Lost Weekend, Double Take and Unfinished Business as well as all the tv productions including Waterfront Beat (BBC); Science Fiction (ITV); and The Courtroom, What Now, Damon & Debbie, Close Guide, And The Beat Goes On – all for CH4. Other credits include The New Shoes, an award winning short at the Edinburgh Festival and a major orchestral piece for the opening ceremony of the 2009 Chinese/American Film Festival in Hollywood.

When Phil Redmond and West End producer Bill Kenwright decided to turn Grange Hill into a stage musical they turned to Steve for all the songs and score and the show opened at the Queen’s Theatre in Hornchurch. He later provided the music for Terriers, an anti-gun play which toured schools throughout Liverpool, reaching an audience of 20,000 and has become part of the English schools curriculum.

Much of the music for the Mersey Productions and Lime Pictures shows were released on cds and produced by Steve, including The Grange Hill Album and You Know The Teacher both on BBC Records. The Brookside theme was recorded many times on lots of different compilations. He also wrote and produced the single Talk To Me, the theme song for Damon & Debbie, a spin off from Brookside.

Born and brought up in Liverpool, Steve got his first guitar at seven and at 16 was in The Chris Carma Road Show supporting Motown artists Charlie & Inez Fox, The Crystals and others. He moved on to Pepperbox and toured Scandinavia and Germany with them playing lead guitar. He started session work at 21 and was also in the resident band at The Cavern Club supporting all the major acts that played there. He formed his own band, Faster Faster, and played all the major clubs including London’s Marquee, Dingwalls and Nashville Rooms. Coming back to Liverpool to work as the composer on Brookside, he joined the big band at the city’s leading venue The Grafton. His current band is The Blues Gang and after a storming performance at the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain in 2007, when time permits they headline on the blues circuit.

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CREDITS INCLUDE

Films

THE LOST WEEKEND (Mersey Television/Polygram) Prod. Ric Mellis
Dir. Jeremy Summers
DOUBLE TAKE (Mersey Television/Universal) Prod. Phil Redmond
Dir. Jeremy Summers
UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Mersey Film/Fremantle Media) Prod. Nicky Higgens. Dir. Adrian Vitoria
THE NEW SHOES (Mersey Television/Puma) Prod./ Dir. Colin McKeown

Television

BROOKSIDE (Mersey Television/C4) Prod. Phil Redmond 1982-2003,  2915 eps.
HOLLYOAKS (Mersey Television/Lime Pictures/C4) Prod. Phil Redmond
1995 ongoing – 2865 eps.
MOVING ON – series 1, 5 eps  (LA Productions/BBC) Prods. Colin McKeown & Jimmy McGovern Dirs. Gary Williams, Illy, Richard Standeven
MOVING ON – series 2, 10 eps (LA Productions/BBC) Prods. Colin McKeown & Jimmy McGovern Dirs. Gary Williams, Len Gowing, Illy, Dominic West,Julia Ford, Noreen Kershaw, Ian Barber, Pauline Harris, Peter Fearon
WATERFRONT BEAT – 8 eps (Mersey Television/BBC) Prod. Phil Redmond
Dirs. Rob Gabriel, A. J. Quinn, Chris Lovett, Brian Morgan,
THE COURTROOM – 39 eps (Mersey Television/C4) Prod. Phil Redmond & David Hanson Dirs. Chris Corcoran, Chris Jury, Craig Lines, Jeff Naylor, Michael Kerrigan, David Richardson,
DAMON AND DEBBIE  3x eps. (Mersey Television/C4) Prod. Phil Redmond
& Colin McKeown Dir. Bob Carlton
AND THE BEAT GOES ON 8x eps. (Mersey Television/C4) Prod. Phil Redmond & Mal Young Dirs. Jeremy Summers, Chris Bernard, Ken Horn, Stephen Garwood
DREAM KITCHEN (North South Partnership/C4) Prod. Colin McKeown
& Martin Tempia Dir. Jonnie Turpey
WHAT NOW (Mersey Television/C4) Prod. Colin McKeown Dir. Phil Redmond
CLOSE GUIDE (Mersey Television/C4) Prod. Phil Redmond
DOORSTEP DIY (Mersey Television/Sky) Prod. Lee Hardman
SCIENCE FICTION SERIES (Mersey Television/ITV) Prod. Mal Young

Records
“SOUNDWAVES” (Album) L’Orchestre Electronique – Nouveau Music
“BROOKSIDE THEME” various compilation albums
“GRANGE HILL THE ALBUM” Cast Of Grange Hill – BBC Records
“YOU KNOW THE TEACHER” (Single) Cast Of Grange Hill – BBC Records
“TALK TO ME” (Single)   Steve Wright, Dani Ali, Annabel Lamb – Ariola Records

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Steve is an endorsee for Fuchs Amplifiers USA.

Jason also provided additional score for Disney’s 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure which he recorded at Air Lyndhurst and for which he was awarded a DVDX Award for Best Musical Score. He also composed additional music for 20th Century Fox’s Big House; Sony Pictures’ 28 Days, starring Sandra Bullock; Warners’ Queen of the Damned; and 20th Century Fox’s Like Mike.

His other television credits include ABC’s animation series Slacker Cats; as well as NBC’s long running Darcy’s Wildlife series; Showtime’s The Other Side, On The Edge and Ask Sylvia Browne. His music can also be heard on How Clean Is Your House, Clean House, Dirty Jobs and Sucking Amps.

He has composed and produced music for commercials for both Rolex and Philips Electronics as well as promo trailers for movies including Battlestar Galactica and The Last Mimzy.

Educated in Canada and the United States, Jason received a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition from The University of Western Ontario and McMaster University before going on to the University of Southern California where he studied with the legendary Elmer Bernstein as well as with Christopher Young, David Raskin, Leonard Rosenman and Joe Harnell.

As a songwriter and musician he worked with The Walk, a Canadian band signed to MCA/Universal Records. He has also collaborated on projects with legendary German composer Peter Thomas. He has played on recordings with Billy Preston, Will Young, Death By Chocolate, Billy Ficca, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lauren Agnelli, Jonathan Davis and Tim Gibbons.

Jason’s scores for The Replacements and Slacker Cats are featured on the series now available as downloads on iTunes. He has contributed to several tracks on the new Afternoons In Stereo’s album, The Silence Between Phrases, currently available on TimeWarp Records., iTunes and Amazon.

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Credits Include

Films

MURDER AMONG FRIENDS – Granada/Hallmark Dir. Walter Llenhard
TWO SISTERS – ABC Television Dir. Margaret Cho
GOOD CHEMISTRY – Warner Bros Dir. Lance Lee Davis
BEARS – Rockhard Pictures Dir. Marc Klasfeld
THE JACKHAMMER MASSACRE – Lionsgate.Slaughterhouse Dir. Joe Castro
2B PERFECTLY HONEST Dir Randel Cole
MARTY & SVEN – Notorius Films Dir. Mikael Forsberg
LIKE MIKE – 20th Century Fox Dir John Schultz Additional Music
DAWG (aka BAD BOY) – Gold Circle Productions Dir Victoria Hochberg
101 DALMATIONS 2 – Disney Dir Jim Kamerud & Brian Smith Additional Music
FOUR AND A HALF WOMEN – Showtime/Aspect Ratio Dir. Emily Baer
OFFICE LINEBACKER – Propaganda Films Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
SANTA CRUZ – Sony Pictures Dir. Betty Thomas
BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE 20th Century Fox Dir. Raja Gosnell Additional Music
28 DAYS – Sony Pictures Dir. Betty Thomas Additional Music
STALEMATE Dir Jonathan Culp

Shorts

PRISONERS Dir. Lawrence Kim
THE WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE SEEN Dir Tony Arias
NEWS FOR THE CHURCH – Foundation Entertainment Dir. Andrew McCarthy
Marty & Sven Dir. Mikael Forsberg
CARTER’S WISH – UCS Dir. Kevin Shahinian
FAKE STACY – Intentionally Left Blank Dir. John Chuldenko
THE HONOR SYSTEM – TL Productions Dir. Jeff Morris
TERRY TATE, OFFICE LINEBACKER – Industry Entertainment
Dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
BLUE CAVIAR Dir. Mikael Forsberg

Television

THE REPLACEMENTS – Disney Animation Dir. Heather Martinez & Robb Pratt
SLACKER CATS – ABC Television Dir. Seth Kearsley
THE OTHER SIDE – Showtime Dir. Mary Stuart Masterson
ON THE EDGE – Showtime Dir. Jana Sue Memel
DARCY’S WILD LIFE – NBC – 2 seasons
ASK SYLVIA BROWNE – Showtime Dir. Jana Sue Memel
HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE – Fremantle Media Additional Music
GOOD GIRLS DON’T– Casey/Werner/Mandabcah Dir.Timothy Busfield
Additional Music
SNOWBOUND – MCTV Dir. David Klarik

He wrote and produced additional music for ITV’s Marple: At Betram’s Hotel; was arranger, MD and music producer on Marple: The Body in the Library; and was arranger/music producer on Carnival/ITV’s Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train.  Other television includes the BBC documentary Love for Sale; The Lady In Red , The Birthday Party, The Graduate, Service With a Smile all for Faction Films/BBC;  and two series of the BBC’s Brum.

In recent months Mike has been composing extensively for The Soul Rests Eternal, his major new classical recording project of evocative music for solo cello and orchestra. This will be recorded and premiered by Caroline Dale and the English Chamber Orchestra next year. Meanwhile in December 2009 Mike’s arrangement of the cello piece ‘Lullaby’, for soprano soloist and chorus, was premiered by Natasha Marsh in London at Holy Trinity, Brompton with the Cantate chorus under conductor Michael Kibblewhite.

He earlier produced Artemis’ critically acclaimed recording of Handel’s Messiah and has exec-produced many classical piano recordings with artists such as Piers Lane, Melvyn Tan, Joanna MacGregor and Noriko Ogawa for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He has also produced several recordings for Sir Simon Rattle’s BCMG.

Mike has written music for some of London’s leading advertising agencies for major brand tv/film commercials, including among others, Saatchi & Saatchi for Nestle Cereals, WCRS for RAC Insurance, Grey Advertising for Pringles, and BBH for AEG Lavamat, as well as many station idents for Sky Movies. He also composed an epic orchestral soundtrack for the advertising campaign for Sony’s PS3 best-selling game Heavenly Sword.

Mike studied classical composition and orchestration at Southampton University, whilst also playing trombone in a number of local big bands and jazz ensembles. He went on to become a leading session musician and arranger and in 1991 he was appointed Managing Editor at the musical publishing giant, Music Sales, working with composers including Michael Nyman, Phillip Glass, Geoffrey Burgon and Craig Armstrong in the preparation of new music for performance and recording.

In 1998 he set up Artemis Media Music, a publishing and production company and he and his composing team produced the soundtracks to many films, a feature animation, a variety of television series and over 1,000 commercial recordings, including tracks for English National Opera, BCMG Records and BBC Worldwide.

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Mike Sheppard credits

FILMS

SAVING LIVES  (Mice International)  Director Phil Walsh

BILL OF MORTALITY  (Black Mole Productions)  Director Heather Dixon

LETTING GO (BenTen Films)  Director Ben Turner

A LUMP IN THE ROAD  (Black Mole Productions)  Director Heather Dixon

TWO DAYS, NINE LIVES (Stairafilm Motion Pictures)  Director Simon Monjack

YOU ARE A MONKEY (Monkey Films)  Director John Burns

TELEVISION

MARPLE: AT BERTRAM’S HOTEL – additional music (ITV)  Director Dan Zeff

SERVICE WITH A SMILE (Faction Films/BBC)  Director Jane Hilton

THE LADY IN RED (FACTION FILMS/BBC)  Director Jane Hilton

BRUM (BBC)  Director John Wood

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Faction Films/BBC)  Director Jane Hilton

BRUM: THE ALBUM (BBC)  Director Sue James

THE GRADUATE (Faction Films/BBC)  Director Jane Hilton

TRANSWORLD SPORT (Sky Sports)  various episodes, different directors

TELEVISION as Arranger/Producer

MARPLE: THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY (ITV)  Director Andy Wilson

POIROT: THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN (Carnival/ITV)

Director Hettie MacDonald

RECORDINGS

Science Fictions (English National Opera) Claron McFadden, Colin Riley (composer)

Morning (Black Box Records)

Twilight (Black Box Records)

Magnetic Moments by David Horne (BCMG Records)

Angular Momentum by Tansy Davies (BCMG Records)

Spinlock by Philip Cashian (BCMG Records)

The Legend of Boudicca (A&C Black Ltd)

The Romans (A&C Black Ltd)

Egyptians (A&C Black Ltd)

Jazzworks (ABRSM)

Gas Mark ii (Stanza Records)

In the Hour Before Dawn (Stanza Records)

Miles Away (Stanza Records)

While the Cat’s Away (Stanza Records)

Brum (the album) Ragdoll / BBC Worldwide

They’ve developed a hard won reputation for delivering top quality creative scores for most of the leading games brands including Electronic Arts, Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft, Sega, Atari and Bethesda Softworks. They were nominated for a BAFTA Best Original Score for Sony’s Primal and a Game Audio Network Guild nomination for Sony’s Medievil 1, 2 & Resurrection. Other major titles include Kung Fu Chaos, Sega Rally, Neverwinter Nights and Frogger.

They’ve scored several features including Mein Bruder Ist Ein Hund for Bos Bros Films and director Peter Timm; Another “B Movie’ for director Gwilym Morris; Palos for director Jorge Alonso Lopez which won Best Original Score at Spain’s Zaragoza Film Festival; and Offside, a short directed by Jesus Cobo.

Their recent tv work includes The King Is Dead for TalkBack Thames and ITV/Discovery’s Animal Planet – Animal Cops Miami. They earlier provided the music for the Fox Kids World Cup and worked on ad campaigns for major multinationals including McDonalds, Audi and CNN.

Both are classically trained, Andrew at Leeds University and Paul at York and Leicester Universities – Andrew is the pianist and oboist while Paul is the guitarist and trumpeter. They’ve acquired high-level audio tech savvy skills that have enabled them to build their own state of the art studio, some of the facilities unique to them.

Between them they cover a very diverse range of musical styles, able to bring unique touches to each and every project. Paul cites Stravinsky, Steve Vai, Danny Elfman and Francis Dunnery as influences while Andrew cites Stevie Wonder, Vangelis, Spyro Gyra and John Williams as his. They also both share a common interest in jazz and classical music.

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Credits Include

Games
Primal (Sony Computer Ent) Prod. Jean Baptiste-Bolcato BAFTA Nominated
MediEvil 1, 2 & Resurrection Prods. (Sony Computer Ent) Chris Sorrell, James Shepherd & Piers Jackson    Game Audio Network Guild Nomination
SWIV  (Sales Curve Interactive) Prod. Rob Henderson
Double Dragon III (Sales Curve Interactive Prod Rob Henderson
Pinball Dreams II  21st Century Entertainment) Prod Barry Simpson
Global Gladiators (Virgin Interactive Entertainment) Prod John Twiddy
Cool Spot (Virgin Interactive Entertainment) Prod John Twiddy
Aladdin (Virgin Interactive Entertainment) Prod John Twiddy
Raymond Briggs Snowman  (Millennium Interactive) Prod Ian Saunter
Raymond Briggs Father Xmas (Millennium Interactive) – Prod Ian Saunter
Deadline (Millennium Interactive) Prod Kevin Mullard
Defcon 5 (Millennium Interactive) Prod Toby Simpson
Silverload (Millennium Interactive) Prod Jason Wilson
Creatures (Cyberlife Technologies) Prod Toby Simpson
Beastwars (Millennium Interactive) Prod Andrew Kennedy
Frogger  (Millennium Interactive) Prod Kevin Mullard,
C-12: Final Resistance (Sony Computer Entertainment) Prod John Meegan
Dig Dug (Creature Labs) Prod Piers Jackson
Ms. Pacman (Creature Labs ) Prod Piers Jackson
Pacman Allstars (Creature Labs) Prod Piers Jackson
Warlords  (Creature Labs) Prod Piers Jackson
Sega Rally (Sega Racing Studio) Prod Guy Wilday
Kung Fu Chaos (Just Add Monsters) Prod Nina Kristensen
Lego Bionicle (Argonaut Software_ Prod Kevin Mullard
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (Obsidian Entertainment) Audio Dir Alex Brandon Shellshock 2: Blood Lines (Rebellion) Prod Viktorya Hollings
Broken Sword 3 (Revolution Software) Prod Charles Cecil
Crysis (Axis Animation) Prod Richard Scott
Brink (Splash Damage) Game Director Ed Stern & Audio Director Chris Sweetman

Features
Mein Bruder Ist Ein Hund (Bos Bros Film Prods) Dir Peter Timm Prods Thomas Springer  & Helmut Weber
Another ‘B Movie’ Dir Gwilym Morris
Palos (ABS-CBN Entertainment) Dir Jorge Alonso Lopez
Zaragoza Film Festival Best Original Score
Offside Dir Jesus Cobo

Television
The King Is Dead (Talkback Thames)  Prod Matt Mullot
Animal Planet – Animal Cops Miami (ITV/Discovery) Prod Claire Bradshaw
Fox Kids World Cup (Jetix TV) Prod Carsten Lakner

Record Remixes
With You by Chris Brown Sony Records
Superhuman by Chris Brown   Sony Records
Wall To Wall by Chris Brown Sony Records
Kiss Kiss by Chris Brown Sony Records
Entourage by Omarion Sony Records

Their work has not been confined to children’s television. They have scored dramas and documentaries including Cause Of Death, You Only Live Once, Every Time I Cross The Tamar; prime time game shows and LE including Lucky Numbers, Find A Fortune, The End Of The Week Show, Brat Pack; comedies such as Zig & Zag’s Dirty Deeds, as well as commercials for Kelloggs, Birds Eye and Classic FM.

Music for children’s television has remained their speciality and they have produced theme tunes and incidental music across a wide variety of genres: Escape From Scorpion Island, Twister, Brilliant Creatures, Finders Keepers, Motormouth, What’s Up Doc?, Weekend Morning Crew, The Disney Club, Skull, Ministry of Mayhem, Holly & Stephen’s Saturday Showdown, Basil’s Swap Shop; It’s A Mystery, The Quick Trick Show, You Can Do Magic, You’ll Never Believe It, Fingertips, and Eureka TV. Currently, there are at least 3 shows featuring their music being broadcast every single day on British television.

They have also provided music and sound design for several stage shows, Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Dark, Brighton The Musical, These Girls, Bull, Angelo Abela’s Squash! and designed the sound installation to accompany Mark Power’s award-winning exhibition The Shipping Forecast – a photographic celebration of the great British institution of the same name, which was seen in over twenty galleries throughout Europe.

Peter Miller studied music at Nottingham University under, among others, Michael Nyman. He published a thesis on ‘The Humouristic Music of Erik Satie’, one of his musical icons. He then taught music for seven years before starting the Brighton Bottle Orchestra in 1983 which quickly became a permanent fixture on the ‘alternative comedy’ circuit and the support acts on their final gig were Steve Coogan and Lee Evans. Peter also made several solo tv appearances demonstrating unusual items as musical instruments and was an original member of Stomp, the internationally acclaimed percussion extravaganza.

Ian Porter did a Fine Arts degree at Loughborough College and Brighton before embarking on a fulltime music career as a bass player with, among others, Birds With Ears, Fischer Z, Manfred Mann, Robin ‘M’ Scott, Robert Palmer and Steve Strange and more recently worked with Moloko on their hit singles Sing It Back and Time Is Now and later programmed the tracks on their album Statues. He too performed many times with Stomp and later toured on bass with their spin-off band Yes/No People. He recently reunited with Fischer Z singer John Watts to work on two new albums.

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CREDITS INCLUDE

Drama
CAUSE OF DEATH – Impact Films/BBC Dir. John Hay
WHAT IF? – Angelic Films Dir. Angelo Abela
EVERYTIME I CROSS THE TAMAR – Without Walls/CH4 Dir. John Hay

Family Entertainment
ART ATTACK – Media Merchants/ITV Prods. T. Edmunds, H. Dawson, N Ayling, H. Evans D.Jones, L. Lamb & others Dirs. T. Edmunds, J Cross, N. Bigsby, P. Eyre, C. Michel, R. Bradley, J. Swan & others
BASIL’S SWOP SHOP – The Foundation/RDF/BBC Prod. Peter Way Dirs. Various
BIG BARN FARM – The Foundation/RDF/BBC Prod. V. Amberleigh Dirs. S. Ransome. J. Morgan
ESCAPE FROM SCORPION ISLAND – The Foundation/RDF/BBC Prods D. Pickard,
A. Westwood, Dirs. A. Norgate, K. Douglas-Walker
FINGERTIPS – The Foundation/ITV Prods. V. Amberleigh, N. Ayling Dirs M. Kerrigan,
J. Garbett
ART ATTACK INTERNATIONAL – Media Merchants/Disney Prods. various Dirs. Various
TRICKY TV – The Foundation/ITV Prods. J. Hepplewhite/I. France Dirs. D. Skinner, P. Obal
TV SQUASH – Working Title/CH4 Prod. Simon Wright Dir. Vic Finch
THE SOOTY SHOW – Media Merchants/ITV
ZIG & ZAG’S DIRTY DEEDS – Working Title Prod. Simon Wright Dir. Angelo Abela
BRILLIANT CREATURES – The Foundation/ITV Prods.V. Hill, G. Allen, C. Coleman
FINDERS KEEPERS – The Foundation/ITV Prod. Ian France Dir. Michael Kerrigan
DISNEY CLUB – Buena Vista/STV/ITV
EUREKA TV – The Foundation/BBC Prod. Vanessa Hill Dir. Michael Kerrigan,
Michael Jelves
IT’S A MYSTERY – M edia Merchants
TWISTER – STV/ITV Dir. Dougie Napier
CRAZY COTTAGE – Action Time/ITV
WHAT’S UP DOC – STV/ITV Prod. Vanessa Hill
YOU CAN DO MAGIC – The Foundation/ITV Prod. Vanessa Hill Dir. Michael Jelves
LUCKY NUMBERS – ITV Prod. Kenton Allen
MOTORMOUTH – TVS/ITV Prod. Adrian Edwards
THE END OF THE WEEK SHOW – ITV Dir. Angelo Abela
BRAT PACK – Action Time/ITV Dir. Nick Bigsby
FIND A FORTUNE – ITV SKULL – Tyne Tees/ITV Prod. Billy Macqueen
MINISTRY OF MAYHEM – The Foundation/ITV
TERROR TOWERS – The Media Merchants/ITV
THE QUICK TRICK CLUB – Objective Productions/ITV Dir. Vic Finch
THE WEEKEND MORNING CREW – TNT/Cartoon Network
WOW – Media Merchants/ITV
ANIMAL CRAZY – Media Merchants/ITV
BOO – Tyne Tees/ITV Prod. Billy MacQueen
THUMBS UP! – Action Time/ITV

Documentary
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE – Sandman Films/QED/BBC Dir. John Hay

Theatre
BULL (Ken Campbell & Mischeif La-Bas) The Albany Theatre, London Dir. Ian Smith
ANGELO ABELA’S SQUASH – The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Show
WHO’S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD DARK (Nickelodeon Theatre Company)
Battersea Arts Centre, London Dir. Michael Mulkerrin
THESE GIRLS -The Pleasance Theatre, Edinbugh Festival Show Dir. Angelo Abela
BRIGHTON THE MUSICAL (Baldy Productions) The Dome Theatre, Brighton, Dir Terry Garoghan performed annually since 1993

His recent credits include the feature Chasing 3000 (Pretty Dangerous Films) starring Ray Liotta and Rory Culkin. He recently scored Canadian Broadcasting Corporations’ new David Wu international tv mini-series Iron Road, starring Peter O’Toole and Sam Neil, which was recorded in China with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing and the National Chinese Traditional Orchestra.

While based in Toronto he wrote the music for a number of tv series including The Campbells for which he received two Gemini Awards. He worked on many features including Beautiful Dreamers (Hemdale Films), starring Rip Torn, and Palais Royale, starring Kin Cattrall, for which he received a Genie Award Nomination. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1990, Lawrence has written the music for more than 75 features, television movies and series. His international film credits include three Handmade Films’ movies – Intimate Relations, starring Julie Walters; The Assistant, starring Joan Plowright; and The Wrong Guy for director David Steinberg; as well as La Famiglia Buona Notte aka Good Night Michael Angelo, for Eagle Pictures/Brown Bread Pictures.

Other credits include the EMMY Award winning William Faulkner’s The Old Man, The Magic of Ordinary Days and Missing Pieces, all for Hallmark; the CBS mini-series Haven, starring Natasha Richardson and Ann Bancroft, for which he received an EMMY Nomination; TNT’s You Know My Name; The Lost World for Cineplex; Vipers for Hallmark; DC: 9/11 for Hallmark/Showtime; My Best Friend’s Husband, directed by Waris Hussein; The Coven for Lion’s Gate/Showtime and more.

His documentary work includes Celebration for Rainbow Media/Hallmark, A Century of Living for HBO and America! for Backlight Films. He also scored the feature documentary Dance for Modern Times for director Mose Mossanen. He has also won several international Cleo Awards for his advertising work.

Lawrence was born and raised in Montreal and studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and later at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

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Features

CHASING 3000 (Pretty Dangerous Films) director Gregory J Lanesey
FRONTLINE (Kingman Films) director John Savage
THE WRONG GUY (Handmade Films) director David Steinberg
THE ASSISTANT (Handmade Films) director Dan Pertrie
INTIMATE RELATIONS (Fox Searchlight/Handmade Films) director Phillip Goodhew
BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS (Hemdale Films) director John Kent Harrison
PALAIS ROYALE (CFP) director Martin Lavaut
LA FAMIGLIA BUONANOTTE (Brown Bread Pictures/Eagle Pictures) aka GOOD NIGHT MICHAEL ANGELO director Carlo Liconti
ONE NIGHT ONLY (Vivafilm) director Tim Bond
STRINGER (Lone Pony Films) director Michael Deluise
THE LOST WORLD (Cineplex) director Tim Bond
FIREBIRD 2015 A.D. (Mara Films) director David M. Robertson
RETURN TO THE LOST WORLD (Cineplex) director Tim Bond

Television

IRON ROAD (CBC) director David Wu
VIPERS (hallmark) director Bill Cocoran
DEADLY SUSPICION (Larry Levinson Productions) director David Morris
RUFFIAN (ESPN/ABC Television) director Yves Simoneau
A STRANGER’S HEART (Larry Levinson productions) director Andy Wolk
THE PARTY NEVER STOPS (Jaffe/Braunstein/Lifetime) director David Wu
FRIEND OF THE FAMILY (Slanted Wheel Ent) director Stuart Gillard
SON OF THE DRAGON (RHI Entertainment) director David Wu
SEARCHING FOR DAVID’S HEART (Disney/ABC Family Channel) director Paul Heon
WHILE I WAS GONE (CBS) director Mike Robe
THE COVEN (Lion’s Gate/Lifetime) director David Wu
CD: 9/11 (Hallmark/Showtime) director Brian Trenchard-Smith
THE SNOW QUEEN (Hallmark Channel) director David Wu
MY BEST FRIEND’S HUSBAND (Hearst/Lifetime) director Waris Hussain
MY SISTER’S KEEPER ( Hallmark/CBS) director Ron Lagomarsino
DUE EAST (Showtime) director Helen Shaver
THE FANOUS JETT JACKSON: THE MOVE (Disney/Alliance) director Shawn Levy
THE RIDE (City Cab/Showcase) director Steve Dimarco
MR ROCK-N-ROLL (NBC) director Andy Wolk
A HOUSE DIVIDED (Dufferin Gate/Showtime) director John Kent Harrison
MISSING PIECES (Hallmark/CBS) director Carl Schenkel
FORGET ME NEVER (Storyline Ent/CBS) director Robert Allan Ackerman
SUMMER’S END (Dufferin Gate/Showtime) director Helen Shaver
YOU KNOW MY NAME (Stoddard/Adelson/TNT) director John Kent Harrison
CLOVER (Hallmark Hall of Fame) director Judd Taylor
WILLIAM FAULKNER’S THE OLD MAN (Hallmark Hall of Fame) director John Kent Harrison
HER DESPERATE CHOICE (Heat Entertainment) director Michael Scott
THE REDWOOD CURTAIN (Hallmark Hall of Fame) director John Korty
STREET JUSTICE (Steve Cannell Prods) director – various
THE CAMPBELLS (John Delmage Prods/CBC) directors – various

Documentaries

DANCE FOR MODERN TIMES – Feature (CFP) director Mose Mossanen
CELEBRATION (Rainbow Media/Hallmark) director Imre Horvath
A CENTURY OF LIVING (HBO) director Imre Horvath
AMERICA (Black Light Films) director Louis Schwartzberg

She trained as an actress at Arts Ed her theatre work included periods at Plymouth Rep and with a Birmingham fringe theatre company run by Adrian Noble. Her tv credits included ‘Clayhanger’ for the BBC, ‘Flambards’ for YTV and her last TV role was in ‘Made in Britain’, directed by Mike Newell.

At this point she changed careers and discovering an aptitude for computing, she re-trained as a programmer, progressed to systems analysis and then into management. By the age of 30 she had pan-European responsibility for Electronic Data Systems’ management of Unilever’s financials systems in London and Rotterdam. She was later moved to EDS’ head office to run the ‘bid teams’ responsible for securing new business.

After a number of years in the computing industry, when the opportunity to take a sabbatical arose, she and her husband – also a consultant, put their careers on hold and set off on a trip which began in Japan and ended in South Africa, via Fiji, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia.

On her return, she decided to finally pursue her interest in writing, something that had been impossible during the long hours and itinerant life in the computing industry. She undertook accredited courses -‘Screenwriting 1 & 2 at the City Lit’ and later ‘Writing Television Drama’ at City University ready to embark on her third career.

Screenplays In Development

Gill’s background as an actress is immediately apparent in her ear for dialogue, her aim to provide even the tiniest role with an intriguing character and an exploitation of the entertainment industry; either in being affectionately lampooned or depicted in all its tawdry reality.

She says, ‘I am drawn to write about the tiny tragedies and triumphs which are part of everyday life and faced by real people. I have always lived in London and am fascinated by the variation and disparity of its inhabitant’s circumstances. It is entirely unintentional but most of my work to date focuses on a female lead protagonist’.

Open Tab – TV drama – At long last Micky Benson’s luck has turned; as he sees it – long overdue. After a windfall, his oldest friend has just waived the loan which funded his escape to a new life. With money to spare, he indulges his wife and gives her the life she always dreamed of. What could possibly go wrong?

A Loss of Perspective – film screenplay – A woman whose marriage is empty, writes of a couple whose marriage is threatened by a man whose marriage is over. Playing the roles are a couple who have separated and a man whose wife has just walked out. How much more experience do they all need? In the world of Story only life gets to change the plot and trapped inside your own screenplay, things can get out of hand when you end up with a leading role.

Beyond The Lights – A three-part TV series – It is the eighties and a handful of students battle through auditions to secure a place at a London drama school. On leaving, they experience at first hand the random cruelty and luck that will make up the fabric of their lives. Facing differing degrees of success and failure, they all have to confront their ability to compromise and their willingness to sacrifice their personal life.

Other tv includes Take Me (Coastal/ITV); Summer in the Suburbs (BBC); The Echo (BBC), starring Clive Owen; Deep Secrets (BBC); The Family (BBC); The Golden Collar (BBC); Behind Closed Doors (BBC); and A Breed of Heroes (BBC); and Love Lies Bleeding (BBC), directed by Michael Winterbottom.

Features include Michael Winterbottom’s film Butterfly Kiss (Dan Films); Capone’s Boys (Alchemy Pictures), directed by Richard Standeven; John Schlesinger’s The Tale of Sweeney Todd (World 2000 Entertainment) starring Ben Kingsley; Comrade Lady and London Blues (Black & White Films/Channel 4) both directed by Nobby Clark.

As performer, composer and producer he has released more than 40 albums on Decca, EMI Classics, Sony, BMG, Virgin, A&M, Hyperion and Argo with sales exceeding 600,000 copies. He was Artistic Advisor and Music Consultant to Sir Paul McCartney for six years and his other important collaborations are with Elvis Costello, Richard Rodney Bennett, Michael Nyman and Ute Lemper. He recently produced Lesley Garrett’s new album, I Will Wait For You, for BMG Records.

John is the leading contemporary classical saxophonist of his generation and his performance of Harrison Birtwistle’s saxophone concerto Panic at The Last Night of The Proms in 1996 instantly gave him a world profile and he has since performed this work in New York, San Francisco, Athens, Lucerne, Sydney, Helsinki and Milan. At the 1998 Proms his opera, Angel Magick, received the first of its many performances. He appeared as a soloist again at The Proms in 2000 and 2001 and in 2002 performed his own saxophone concerto, The Little Death Machine.

He has written more than 30 concert works, many of them commissions and in early 2008 will deliver a new symphonic piece to The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra which they will premiere in July, as well as a new saxophone concerto, Bluebird, commissioned by The Central Band of Royal Air Force.

He is Professor of Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is an inspiration to a whole new generation of saxophonists.

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John Harle Credits Include

Features

THE CURIOUS (Dakota Films) prod. Luc Roeg dir, Steve Brown
CAPONE’S BOYS (Dakota Films) prod. Luc Roeg dir. Richard Standeven
THE TALE OF SWEENEY TODD (World 2000 Entertainment)
prod.Ted Swanson dir. John Schlesinger
BUTTERFLY KISS (Dan Films) prod. Julie Baines dir. Michael Winterbottom
DEFENCE OF THE REALM (Enigma Films) prod Linda Myles dir. David Drury
PRICK UP YOUR EARS (Zenith Ent.) prod. Andrew Brown dir. Stephen Frears
COMRADE LADY (Black & White Filmsprod) prod. John Paul Chapple dir. Nobby Clark
LONDON BLUES (Black & White Filmsprod) prod. John Paul Chapple
dir. Nobby Clark

Television
A SHORT TRIP TO SWITZERLAND (BBC FILMS) prod. Liz Trubridge dir. Simon Curtis
THE COMMANDER (La Plante Prods/ITV) prod Lynda La Plate dirs. Various
SILENT WITNESS (BBC) prod. George Ormond dirs. various
DALZIEL & PASCOE (BBC) prod. Annie Tricklebank dirs. various
TRIAL & RETRIBUTION (La Plante Prods) prod. Chris Hall dirs .various
MESSIAH (BBC/Paramount) prod. Peter Norris dirPaul Unwin
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS (BBC) prod. Diana Kyle dir. Louis Caulfield
FAMILY (BBC) prod. Andrew Eaton dir. Michael Winterbottom
TAKE ME (Coastal Prods) prod. Bill Boys dir. Alex Pillai
A HISTORY OF BRITAIN (BBC) prod/dir Ian Bremner
SUMMER IN THE SUBURBS (BBC) prod. Hiliary Salmon dir. David Attwood
THE ECHO ( BBC) prod. Kate Harewood dir. Diamuid Lawrence
MOTHERTIME (BBC) prod. Josh Golding dir. Matthew Jacobs
DEEP SECRETS (BBC) prod. Gillian McNeil dir. Diarmuid Lawrence
THE GOLDEN COLLAR (Initial Ent/BBC) prod. Stewart Mackinnon dir. Gill Wilkinson
A BREED OF HEROES (BBC2/Screen2) dir. Diarmuid Lawrence
THE SCORE (BBC) dir. Bob Bentley
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (BBC) prod. Robert Cooper dir. Michael Winterbottom
THE LONGEST DAYS (Cicada Films) prod/dir Liz Clarke
THE SHIP (BBC) prod/dir. Christopher Terrill
DOCTOR’S ORDERS (BBC) prod Jeremy Mills

Concert Works Include

ANGEL MAGICK – opera commissioned by BBC for 1998 Proms Season
THE BALLAD OF JAMIE ALLAN – folk opera commissioned by Sage Theatre
THE LITTLE DEATH MACHINE – commissioned by BBC for 2002 Proms Season
SILENCIUM – orchestral
LEVIATHAN – orchestral commissioned by Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
THE THREE RAVENS SONG CYCLE – vocal work commissioned by BBC Radio 3
O’MISTRESS MINE – song commissioned by Decca Records for Elvis Costello

Awards

THE COMMANDER/Windows of the Soul – RTS Nomination Best TV Score 2007
SILENT WITNESS – RTS Best Original Television Score
DEFENCE OF THE REALM – RTS Nomination Best TV Score
SUMMER IN THE SUBURBS – RTS Nomination Best Television Score
PRICK UP YOUR EARS – Best Artistic Achievement Award Cannes Film Festival
TERROR & MAGNIFICENCE (album) Nominated for US Grammy Award

Other recent credits  Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior for Universal Pictures; Dragon Hunters for Paris based Futurikon; and Starship Troopers 3: Marauders for Sony Pictures.

His other composer credits include Hideous Man (Harry Nash Films), directed by John Malkovich and produced by Bella Freud. He wrote additional music for Kingdom In Twilight (Tandem Communications) and Trinity (Fireworks/World Mark).

Over the past three years he has worked very closely with Hollywood composer Klaus Badelt as his additional writer, arranger and programmer on Solomon Kane (Carl Films), Premonition (MGM), Poseidon (Warner Bros), Rescue Dawn (Gibraltar Entertainment), 16 Blocks (Warner Bros), The Promise (Moonstone Productions), Ultraviolet (Sony Pictures), Constantine (Warner Bros) and recently completed work on Killshot, (The Weinstein Company) for Oscar winning director John Madden. As a composer, Andrew’s style has developed the same clarity and detail found so often in his mentors’ scores.

Andrew was part of the creative score discussions on movies involving directors Wolfgang Peterson, Richard Donner, Werner Herzhog and John Madden and this has given him a real understanding of the film making process at the highest level.

Early in 2009 Andrew was asked to score one of a series of animations based on traditional Chinese folk stories. The score was recorded at Capitol Records featuring a string orchestra, ethnic Chinese instruments and the outstanding solo violin playing of Frank Ge-Fang Yang, a virtuoso who spent ten years touring the world as first violin for the well known Alexander Quartet.

He also worked as a programmer with composer Elia Cmiral on Pulse (The Weinstein Company), guitars and programming for composer Ilan Eshkeri on Layer Cake (Ska Films), programmer/arranger for Michael Kamen on Boo, Zino & The Snurks (Warner Bros) and provided additional guitars on Alfie (Paramount Pictures).

He has worked in the studio with many recording artists including SIA, Nick Laird-Clowes, Horace Andy, Dave Stewart , Richard Darbyshire and Dominic King .

Drawing on a background of writing, live performance and synthesiser programming, he has articulated and developed a style, which combines to great effect, the use of electronic elements with more traditional orchestral instrumentation.

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Andrew Raiher – Feature Film Credits

As composer
Solomon Kane (Davis Films) Dir. Michael J Bassett Prods.
Paul Berrow, Samuel Hadida, Kevan Van Thompson
Waking Madison (Annapurna Productions) Dir. Katherine Brooks Prod. Ted Schipper & Jonah Hirsch

Redline (Chicago Pictures) Dir. Andy Cheng Prod. Mario Kassar

Hideous Man (Harry Nash Films) Dir John Malkovich Prod Bella Freud

Dragon Hunters (Futurikon) additional music Dir. Guillaume Ivernel Prod. Philippe Delarue & Tito Seiffert

Scorpion King 2: Rise of the Arccadian (Universal Pictures) additional music

Starship Troopers 3: Marauders (Sony/ApolloMovie Beteiligungs/Bold) additional music Dir. Edward Neumeier Prod. Lorenzo Senatore

Kingdom in Twilight (Tandem Communications) Dir. Uli Edel Additional music Prod. Rola Bauer

Trinity (Fireworks / World Mark) Dir Gary Boulton-Brown (Additional Music) Prod David Wooster

As arranger/programmer/musician
Killshot (The Weinstein Company) Dir John Madden
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Richard Gladstein

Premonition (Sony Pictures) Dir. Mennan Yapo
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Ashok Amritraj

Pulse (The Weinstein Company) Dir Jim Sorenzo
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Michael Leahy

Poseidon (Warner Bros) Dir Wolfgang Peterson
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod. Akiva Goldsman

Rescue Dawn (Gibralter Entertainment) Dir.Werner Herzhog
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Elton Brand

16 Blocks (Warner Bros) Dir Richard Donner
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Avi Lerner

The Promise (Moonstone Entertainment) Dir Chen Kaige
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Etchie Stroh

Ultraviolet (Sony Pictures) DirKurtWimmer (Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Lucas Foster

Constantine (Warner Bros Dir Francis Lawrence
(Composer Klaus Badelt) Prod Lauren Shuler Donner

Layer Cake (Ska Films) Dir Matthew Vaughn
(Composer Ilan Eshkeri) Prods David Reid, Matthew Vaughn

Boo, Zino and the Snurks (Warner Bros/Ambient) Dir/Prod Leonard Krawinkel (Composer Michael Kamen)

Alfie (Paramount Pictures) Dir Charles Shyer
(Additional Guitars) Prod Elaine Pope

He studied composition and orchestration at London’s Guildhall School of Music and only started scoring fulltime for film and tv in 2002, since which time he has already achieved an impressive list of credits. These Include Belonging, starring Brenda Blethyn, directed by Chris Menaul, for which he won the FIPA D’OR for Best Original Score, and he was awarded EMMYS for Allied To The Mafia and The True Story Of The Roman Arena for the BBC’s Timewatch series. 2007 scores include the BBC’s Reichenbach Falls.

His other credits include the feature Inspiration, produced by Alan Rickman; the 2005 series of Auf Wiedersehen Pet (BBC), for which he provided a largely Afro Cuban score; The Rotters’ Club series (Company Pictures/BBC); In Search Of Lawrence (Fulcrum/Channel 4); and Pyramid (BBC). He was second composer, contributing music to Cracker series I (Granada); Catherine Cookson’s The Gambling Man (ITV); Century Falls and Moon Dial (BBC). His documentaries series cover everything from the National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Horizon, The Mission, and Storm Chasers to Undressed and Planet Food. Last year two of his library pieces were used in Little Britain.

Originally a bass guitarist and backing vocalist, he gained worldwide touring, recording and tv experience with World Party, Julian Lennon, the afore mentioned David Bowie, Toni Childs, Aimee Mann, Sinead O’Connor, Holly Johnson and many others. He quickly developed as a songwriter and wrote with, and for Robert Plant, Aimee Mann, Toni Childs and Julian Lennon with whom he is currently completing an album project as songwriter, co-producer and musician.

The collaboration with Julian Lennon has carried over into a new recording project led by Martyn which will also feature contributions from David Gray and Will Young. Watch this space!

Martyn works from his own digital sound to picture studio in central London. He is a member of British Academy of Composers and Songwriters and last year was on the BAFTA panel judging Best Original TV Music.

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MARTYN SWAIN’S CREDITS INCLUDE

Features
INSPIRATION (AWR) dir. Andreas Wizniewski prod. Alan Rickman

TV
REICHENBACH FALLS (BBC) director John McKay
BELONGING (The Producers) dir. Chris Menaul
THE ROTTER CLUB (Company Pictures/BBC) dir. Tony Smith
prod. Chrissy Skinns
AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET (BBC) dirs. Maurice Phillips & David Innes-Edwards
Prod. Chrissy Skins
PYRAMID (BBC) dir. Jonathan Stamp
ALLIED TO THE MAFIA (BBC – Timewatch) dir/prod. Richard Bradley
THE TRUE STORY OF THE ROMAN ARENA (BBC – Timewatch)
dir/prod Jonathan Stamp
IN SEARCH OF LAWRENCE (BBC) dir. Peter White prod. Martin Long
CRACKER series I (Granada) second composer dir. Michael Winterbottom
prod. Gub Neal
CATHERINE COOKSONS’: THE GAMBLING MAN (ITV) second composer
dir. Norman Stone prod. Ray Marshall
CENTURY FALLS (BBC) second composer dir. Colin Cart
prod. Richard Callannan
MOON DIAL (BBC) second composer dir. Colin Cant prod. Paul Stone
LONELY PLANET (Pilot Productions/Channel 4) dirs. various
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Channel dirs. Various prod. Mark Dyson
PLANET FOOD (Pilot Productions/Channel 4) dirs. Various
HORIZON (BBC) various documentaries
THE MISSION (BBC) various documentaries
STORM CHASERS (Channel 4) 2 x 1 hr series
UNDRESSED (Little Bird/Channel 4) 4 x 1 hr series

Awards
FIPA D’OR for BELONGING (ITV) dir Chris Menaul
EMMY for ALLIED TO THE MAFIA (BBC – Timewatch) dir. Richard Bradley
EMMY for THE TRUE STORY OF THE ROMAN ARENA (BBC – Timewatch)
dir. Jonathan Stamp