John Altman won a BAFTA for Hear My Song and EMMY for RKO 281, this award winning British composer’s most recent Hollywood movie score is Miramax’s worldwide smash hit Shall We Dance, starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez. Other recent credits include  the features Shoot On Sight and a contemporary version of Ibsen’s The Master Builder both of which opened this year, as well as The Good Samaritan for ITV. Recently awarded a Gold Badge for services to British music by The British Academy of Songwriters & Composers.

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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.

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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..

After a short-lived spell as an apprentice draughtsman, he studied Art, photography and eventually film at the Bradford College of Art. Worked as a psychiatric nurse, AV technician, civil servant, and professional driver before returning to complete a degree, followed by an MA in Scriptwriting at the Northern School of Film, Leeds Metropolitan University. Has won awards for photography (Creative Camera, Victoria BC) and Scriptwriting (Yorkshire TV/Granada/Tyne Tees TV New Voices ‘The Wedge’).

A full member of the Writer’s Guild (GB)

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Tim Atack writes contemporary film/tv music as well as co-writing, recording and producing with Des’ree her multi- million selling albums and singles. He scored Ricky Gervais’ first Hollywood movie as writer/director/star, The Invention of Lying, which received great reviews in the US and UK and is now on general release, and Tim’s gone straight on to Ricky’s new feature Cemetery Junction after completing the UK feature Re-Uniting The Rubins for producer Jonathan Weissler. He composed the music for the BBC’s Roman’s Empire, Much Ado About Nothing; Krakatoa and The Quatermass Experiment; ITV’s Quite Ugly One Morning, starring James Nesbitt and the films Among Giants and Elephant Juice.

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Willie Dowling is a successful singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, who first broke into scoring with tv comedy series for Armstrong & Miller, among others and then moved across into drama with BBC drama You’re Breaking Up. He recently completed the score for Carnaby Films’ Caught In The Act, directed by Matt Lipsey and has finished  Vexed, a new Greenlit series for the BBC2 airing August 15 for 3 weeks . Other credits include Life Of Riley for the BBC;   The Cup for Hartswood Films and Never Better, a tv series for World Productions/BBC2. In 2007 also completed the songs and score for the animated feature Snow White – The Sequel.

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Matt Dunkley is a leading established arranger and orchestrator on major films. He composed his second feature score for the Anglo-Belgian film Gale Force 10, his first being D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers. TV includes the new CBBC drama Bo & The Spirit World, No 13, I Saw You, Safe As Houses and Rescue Me.

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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..

Paul Heard, the co-writer and producer of the group M-People, is now scoring films and tv drama. His credits include the recently completed Clubbed for Formosa Films, a gangster film set in the Northern clubs in the early 1980′s and Ahead of The Class, ITVs much lauded production starring Julie Walters.

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Neil Martin is a Belfast based composer and musician whose work spans television, radio, theatre, the concert stage and the recording studio. First major tv drama commission was the BBC’s Food For Ravens written and directed by Trevor Griffiths. In 2009 he scored the feature  Hell’s Pavement for Irish director Andy Kemp which had its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival.  A cellist and uilleann piper, his first solo album is on Universal Records.

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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..

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.

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Mike Moran is one of the most experienced and versatile of composers, his skill include film/tv scoring, arranging, song writing and record production. Recent scores include the  features Blessed, starring James Nesbitt,  The Lonely Stag, an Irish film, and  A Fox’s Tale, a full length animation movie. He also scored Octavia, the 2008 tv drama based on the novel Jilly Cooper. Other credits include New Tricks, Sherlock, Scarlet Pimpernel and the cult movie Time Bandits.

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CREDITS: Riders to the Sea – PBS Special starring Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer adapted and directed by Ronan from the Abbey Theatre production of the J. M. Synge classic Fragments of Isabella – Adapted and directed by Ronan from the Pulitzer nominated memoirs of Auschwitz survivor Isabella Leitner. Shot at Ardmore studios in Ireland..

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Dublin based screenwriter, film editor and director Ronan O’Leary combines a strong visual sense with an equally strong literary skill. He began his career as a drama producer/director for PBS in Los Angeles.

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Alan Parker is a brilliant orchestrator and programmer; his composing credits include the 2006 movie Stormbreaker, the cult What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Fallen Angel, Marian Again, D-Day, Family, Walking With Cavemen, Winter Solstice, The Cry, Ivor Novello nominations for his scores for Victoria & Albert and Rhodes. 2007 tv included Fallen Angel for ITV.

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Jean-Claude Petit is one of the foremost film composers in France and his work includes the universally acclaimed Cyrano de Bergerac (BAFTA Award) with Gerard Depardieu’s amazing performance; Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, both directed by Claude Berri; and the huge hit, Les Miserables, starring John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau.

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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..

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.

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Craig Pruess musician, arranger, producer and Indo/World fusion expert is widely regarded as the finest non-Indian sitar player and world music specialist. He has just completed scoring Gurinder Chadha’s new film It’s A Wonderful Afterlife after having earlier worked with her on Bride and Prejudice, Bend It Like Beckham and The Mistress of Spices.

His latest tv credits include the the BBC’s new Five Days and  the BBC’s recent 3-parter Moses Jones, for which he has been Nominated for a BAFTA. The music was singled out as being an important element in creating the character of the series and The London Metro said “ surely the tv soundtrack of the year!”. Earlier tv drama includes Red Productions’ Jane Hall for Matthew Bird, penned by Sally Wainwright, starring Gillian Talyforth, Sarah Smart and Geraldine James; Peak Practice for Carlton and Rich Deceiver for the BBC.

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Long established as one of the leading composers of brilliant contemporary orchestral scores for major BBC natural history programmes, including three David Attenborough series, Ben is now bringing his impressive cinematic style to drama productions.
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We are pleased to announced that we have signed film composers Jason Frederick and Steve Wright. Canadian born songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jason has recently relocated from Los Angeles to the UK and later this year ITV will screen the Hallmark/Granada thriller Murder Among Friends featuring his latest score. Other credits include The Replacements, the Disney animation series, Two Sisters for ABC Television, Good Chemistry for Warners, Gold Circle’s Dawg and 2B Perfectly Honest.  Steve was Head of Music at Mersey Television & Lime Pictures before leaving in 2007 to concentrate on his in demand career as a film composer. His first commission was LA Production’s Moving On for the BBC, followed this year by the 10-part series 2. Other credits include all the music and songs for Brookside, Grange Hill, Hollyoaks and the films The Lost Weekend, Double Take and Unfinished Business.

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Congratulations to Craig Pruess  for his BAFTA  Nomination for his outstanding score for BBC2′s 3 part drama Moses Jones

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Vexed, BBC 2′s new comedy drama series, Pick of the Week and Pick of the Day in the weekend papers Aug 21 & 22, features a brilliant score by Willie Dowling.

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The King Is Dead, the new Talkback Thames series for BBC 3,  with music by Andrew Barnabas and Paul Arnold,  starts it’s run on Thursday September 2 at 10.30 in the evening.

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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 went on to score Ricky’s new feature, Cemetery Junction which opened here April 16, after scoring the UK rom.com  Re-Uniting The Rubins for producer Jonathan Weissler and the thriller Dead Cert; Andrew Barnabas & Paul Arnold have written the music for the new Talkback Thames series The King Is Dead and have just completed Brink, a new video game by leading US producers Bethesda Softworks; Willie Dowling recently finished new Greenlit 3- part comedy drama Vexed which airs August 15 to 29 on BBC2, starring Toby Stephens; Matt Dunkley’s score for CBBC’s new drama series  Spirit Warriors attracted lots of critical praise, as did his orchestrations and conducting of the AR Rahman concert at The Royal Festival Hall on in April; Paul Heard’s score is a major feature of Formosa Film’s movie Clubbed now on general release; Belfast composer Neil Martin   scored  Hell’s Pavement for director Andy Kemp which is now on general release in the UK; Mike Moran has scored Blessed, for Storm Pictures, starring James Nesbitt and Natascha McElhone, which BBC 2  screened  on June 19 and the dvd is now available; Craig Pruess‘ music for the  BBC drama Moses Jones was hailed by one critic as “the oustanding soundtrack of the year”, and he received similar plaudits for the BBC’s Five Days, aired  this March; Ben Salisbury’s music for Inside The Perfect Predator for the BBC’s Natural History Unit has received unanimous praise.

Martyn Swain, an award winning score composer and songwriter, comes from a ‘rock ‘n roll’ background having joined The Waterboys back in 1987 and went on to work with major superstars, including David Bowie. Credits include Reichenbach Falls, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Rotters Club, Belonging and more…

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