January 2011 - very excited to be conducting this amazing tour to India with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg playing the music of A.R.Rahman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUKt8kpfTyA
December 2011 - in Brussels for the press launch of the arena spectacular Peter Pan. I'm music director, arranger and composer for this incredible production that premieres next year. To paraphrase J.M.Barrie.....it's going to be an awfully big adventure......Check out the trailer here http://www.peterpan.is/en/index.html
In Helsinki for the premiere of the Italian Key with Tuomas Kantelinen. Great city, great fun with great friends
Conducting Guillaume Roussel's witty score to the French comedy Les Seigneurs at Air Studios with the London Session Orchestra
November 2011 - orchestrating and conducting recordings for Craig Armstrong's cool new solo album in Berlin with the brilliant Babelsberg Film Orchestra
Recording at Abbey Road Studios with the Chamber Orchestra of London and Neil Davidge
Conducting Christian Henson's fab score for the hilarious Irish movie Grabbers
Conducting sampling sessions for Hans Zimmer at Air Studios - violas this time!
Recording a secret project with A.R.Rahman in Berlin
October 2011 - arrangement of A.R.Rahman's Lux Aeterna for 25th anniversary of Swarovski's music orchestra
Recording in Berlin with A.R.Rahman - idents for Eros Studios India
Conducting LSO at Abbey Road for Apple Corp. library music sessions
September 2011 - arranging and orchestrating a very exciting secret project for Neil Davidge (of Massive Attack fame). All will be revealed next year!
Writing library tracks for Big Screen Music
August 2011 - orchestrating and recording Craig Armstrong's score to the movie In Time. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, this uber cool sci-fi movie starring Justin Timberlake is a must watch and Craig's score is one of his best. Recorded at Air Studios in London with Geoff Foster engineering.
In L.A. again conducting and orchestrating A.R.Rahman's gorgeous score to the Alex Kurtzman directed Dreamworks movie Welcome to People. Great sessions at Sony Studios
July 2011 - in L.A. conducting a concert of A.R.Rahman's film music with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Nearly 16000 people packed out the Bowl for a truly special evening. Here's the L.A.Times review:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/07/music-review-ar-rahman-and-the-los-angeles-philharmonic-in-journey-to-india-at-hollywood-bowl.html
Conducting Paul Thomson's cool score to the new BBC drama series The Fades at Angel Studios with the English Session Orchestra
Starting orchestrations on A.R.Rahman's lovely score to the Dreamworks movie Welcome to Children
Conducting Alain Ranval's fun score to the French comedy You Don't Choose Your Family at Air Studios with the Chamber Orchestra of London
Conducting/arranging Clint Mansell's music to a new Sony 3D commercial at Air Studios
More string sampling for Hans Zimmer - 4 cellos can sound very cool you know....
June 2011 - working on game trailer for Mass Effect 3 composed by Clint Mansell. We're doing the full game later in the year - going to be epic!
Orchestrations for Paul Haslinger's cracking score to The Three Musketeers directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Fun few days at Abbey Road working on some new beds for Apple iMovies.
Working on an orchestration for a Craig Armstrong and Chris Botti collaboration
May 2011 - conducting a gig for Craig Armstrong at the Cannes Film Festival. Great combination of a rocking band and tight string section, with singers including David McAlmont and Andrea Corr. Fun week on the Croisette! Here's a short clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V99I_aa7i-k
Preparing arrangements for A.R.Rahman's Hollywood Bowl concert on July 10th
Conducting video game trailers for the very talented Lorne Balfe
Conducting string sampling sessions for Hans Zimmer - this is the hardest gig of the lot!
April 2011 - assisting on recordings for Hans Zimmer's and John Powell's fun score to Kung Fu Panda 2 at Air Studios.
Arranging the new Sony 3D advert for Clint Mansell.
March 2011 - conducting choirs for Hans Zimmer's exciting score to the 4th Pirates movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Very happy to announce that I will be conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl on July 10th for a concert of A.R.Rahman's film music and songs. Going to be a great evening. Tickets available at: http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/performance-detail.cfm?id=4595
February 2011 - Glad to confirm that my new worldwide agents are Cool Music. Check out their website here: http://www.coolmusicltd.com/index.asp
Orchestrating Clint Mansell's heartfelt score to the TV movie United, about the "Busby Babes" and the Munich Air Crash.
Firming up some very exciting live projects for this year and next - but I'm not allowed to mention any of them....yet....
January 2011 - Happy New Year!
Orchestrating the second half of Tuomas Kantelinen's beautiful score to the movie The Italian Key, recording at Air Studios.
December 2010 - very pleased to see Black Swan, 127 Hours and Inception made the AFI top ten films of the year, and their scores are all doing well in the awards nominations.
Working on a YSL advert for Clint Mansell
Nobel Peace Prize concert a great success: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Iuo2n-MQw&playnext=1&list=PLE84EC2D363A9489B&index=52
November 2010 - interview for Radio 2 for an upcoming A.R.Rahman documentary.
Conducted Jocelyn Pook's beautiful score to the Danish movie The Morning After, at Hear No Evil Studios London.
Preparing orchestral scores for A.R.Rahman's performance at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo next month.
October 2010 - orchestrating and conducting 2 tracks for the new Il Divo album at Air Studios.
Orchestrating and conducting Clint Mansell's super cool action score to the movie Faster starring The Rock.
Enjoyed the Concert for Care film music concert at the Royal Albert Hall with the RPO. Great to see so many British film composers in the same room - and respect to David Arnold and Tommy Pearson for putting it all together.
Privileged to attend the Asian Awards at the Grosvenor House with A.R.Rahman, and congratulations to him for his "achievement in music" award.
Attended the gala screening of 127 Hours at the London Film Festival. Clever film-making from Danny Boyle and fascinating to meet the real-life "hero" of the movie, Aron Ralston.
September 2010 - conducting Christian Henson's subtle and disturbing score to the movie The Devils Double about the vile Uday Hussein and his body guard.
Conducting the Finnish movie Priest of Evil for the talented Panu Aaltio
August 2010 - orchestrating and conducting A.R.Rahman's beautiful score to Danny Boyle's new movie "127 Hours", which will close the London Film Festival.
Orchestrating and conducting A.R.Rahman's amazing score to the epic Indian movie Endhiran (aka Robo) at Air Studios. Incredible film - go see it if you get the chance.
July 2010 - orchestrating and conducting Clint Mansell's score to the new Darren Aronofsky movie "Black Swan" starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. Chosen to open the Venice Film Festival, and a great atmospheric score from Clint - weaving in and out of the Tchaikovsly ballet music.
Additional orchestrations for the movie "Gullivers Travels". Very impressive score from Henry Jackman
June 2010 - writing library tracks for Big Screen Music.
Starting work on arrangements for an exciting childrens opera project written by Martyn Swain
May 2010 - orchestrating The Last Dragon for Australian-based composer Frank Strangio. Cracking adventure score from Frank.
April 2010 - conducting orchestral sessions to the new Christopher Nolan thriller Inception at Air Studios. Fantastic dramatic score from Hans Zimmer to a movie that you've just got to see - simply amazing!
Starting orchestrations on David Torn's score to the movie Bunraku. Great to be working with "the dude" again
A.R. Rahman RFH concert on the 7th was a great success. Fantastic playing from the LPO and guest Indian instrumentalists Naveen Kumar (flute) and Asad Khan (sitar).
Plus wonderful vocal performances from Metro Voices, Alma Ferovic and Michael Rouse.
Add in Gauri Sharma Tripathi's dancers and it was quite an evening.
March 2010 - orchestrating Craig Armstrong's score to Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Beautiful subtle stuff from Craig, as always. Recorded on the Newman Scoring Stage in L.A. for Fox.
Arranging strings for Badly Drawn Boy's fantastic new album, produced by Stephen Hilton.
Arranging and editing new concert suites of A.R.Rahman's film music for a performance (conducted by me) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in April.
February 2010 - orchestrating Ramin Djawadi's epic score to Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans at Air Studios.
Orchestrating some cues for John Murphy's Kick Ass score.
January 2010 - congratulations to my dear friend Craig Armstrong on the award of his O.B.E. in the New Years Honours List
Orchestrating Tim Atack's seventies inspired score to the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant comedy "Cemetery Junction", recording at Abbey Road and engineered by Pete Cobbin. Tim does this stuff so bloody well.
Last orchestral session for the big apocalyptic ending episodes of Sprit Warriors at Air Studios, engineered by Geoff Foster. Fantastic performances from the London Studio Orchestra lead by Perry Montague-Mason.
December 2009 - orchestrating Tuomas Kantelinen's gorgeous score to "The Italian Key" at Air Studios
November 2009 - delivered first 6 episodes of Spirit Warriors score. Episode 1 will be screened on CBBC on Friday 22nd January 2010 at 5.45pm. Go to slideshow for a sneak preview of the main title theme - it's the first piece you hear.
October 2009 - recording the signature tune and my score to the first 5 episodes of Spirit Warriors at Air Studios with Geoff Foster engineering. The show is shaping up really well and will be screened on the BBC in January.
In Manchester recording string arrangements for songs to a Caroline Aherne penned TV series "The World's Fattest Man". Music written by Damon Gough - aka Badly Drawn Boy. Damon writes such emotive yet simple songs - I'm a big fan - and we had a great night out as well.....
In Glasgow music supervising the Scottish Royal Variety Performance, directed by the genius that is Andrew Panton.
Orchestrating Randy Edelman's lovely Irish-tinged score to the Amy Adams rom-com "Leap Year" at Air Studios
Couples Retreat and The Invention of Lying (both orchestrated and conducted by me) are released
September 2009 - conducting live strings at the Venice Film Festival for a short film by Shekhar Kapur "Passage" with beautiful music by A.R.Rahman. Got to work with the talented young Indian soprano Kavita Baliga - what an amazing voice!
In Brussels conducting my string arrangements for Ingrid Mank's brilliant debut album. Here's a sneak preview on YouTube
August 2009 - conducting 45 hours of string sampling sessions for Hans Zimmer at Air Studios. I think we've got the marcatos covered now....
Hired as musical supervisor to the first Scottish Royal Variety Performance to be held at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in October
Bo and the Spirit World gets a new name - "Spirit Warriors" Writing episodes 3&4
July 2009 - in L.A. orchestrating and conducting A.R.Rahman's score to the Vince Vaughn comedy "Couples Retreat". Lovely score from A.R. showing just how he can write in any genre. Got to record at Sony Studios on the old MGM scoring stage - had a fun week!
June 2009 – arranging/composing music for TV adverts for HSBC and B&Q
Writing episodes 1&2 of Bo and the Spirit World
May 2009 – commissioned to write the score for an exciting new 10 part BBC children’s action drama series, “Bo and the Spirit World”. Created by Jo Ho and produced by Nick Pitt and Jon East, this series, inspired by Yimou Zhang’s “House Of Flying Daggers” and Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, is set in Ancient China and will feature some amazing CGI from Retro Juice Productions. I visited the sets at 3 Mills Studios in the East End of London and they look incredible. The series will feature the cream of British-Chinese acting talent and I’m really excited to be a part of this production.
Orchestrating cues for Adrian Johnston’s score to the Stephen Poliakoff movie “Glorious 39”.
April 2009 – orchestrating and conducting Tim Atack’s score to the new Ricky Gervais movie comedy “The Invention of Lying” for Warner Bros. Tim has written a lovely “light touch” score and the film is very funny - will be out in the autumn. Got to hang out with Ricky too – I’m a fan, so this gig was sweet!
Conducting orchestras and choirs for Clint Mansell’s atmospheric score to the French movie “Farewell” at Air Studios
February 2009 – working on string arrangements for the Belgian singer/songwriter
Ingrid Mank’s debut solo album – beautiful songs.
A.R. wins a Bafta and 2 Oscars – wow!
January 2009 – congratulations to my friend A.R.Rahman on his Golden Globe victory
for his score to “Slumdog Millionaire”
Orchestrating Tuomas Kantelinen’s score to the movie “Limo”
December 2008 – conducting Clint Mansell’s brilliantly dynamic score to the movie “Blood, The Last Vampire”. Recording in Paris at Guillaume Tell Studios – a former cinema and the only studio I’ve ever worked in that has a chandelier in the live room!
October 2008 – arranging and conducting strings for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’s emotive score to the movie “The Road”- based on the powerful Cormac McCarthy book.
Arranging and conducting strings for Steve Hilton’s score to the horror flick “The Children”
Conducting Martin Rappeneau’s fun-filled score to the French comedy “Safari” at Abbey Road Studios.
September 2008 – writing, recording and mixing guitar and string tracks for a new Killer Tracks library album. Very lucky to secure the brilliant playing skills of guitarist Steve Hackett.
August 2008 – conducting sessions for young Finnish composer Panu Aaltio’s atmospheric score to the movie “Sauna”
Orchestrating and conducting Craig Armstrong’s music for a new Guinness advert.
9am session start in Prague – on my birthday – but the Pivo afterwards was great.
My “4 Musketeers” soundtrack is released by Movie Score Media – available to purchase via www.moviescoremedia.com/musketeers.html or on iTunes. Picking up some nice
reviews – see my Press page for details.
July 2008 - conducting brass sampling sessions for Hans Zimmer at Air Studios – you can never have too many horn samples….
June 2008 - new date set for release of my 4 Musketeers soundtrack - 12th August - available
via www.moviescoremedia.com
Cinema releases for The Incredible Hulk and Mongol with orchestrations by you know who
May 2008 - orchestrating Randy Edelman's fantastic score to Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,
recording at Abbey Road Studios with a 91 piece orchestra over 20 sessions.
Conducting orchestral sessions for the new Batman movie The Dark Knight at Air Studios, great score from two of the best composers in Hollywood - James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
Orchestrating Tuomas Kantelinen's evocative score to Arn II, recording in L.A.
Composing track for new Killer Tracks library CD Sweet Emotions
Ironman tops box offices around the world
April 2008 - in Glasgow and Seattle orchestrating and recording Craig Armstrong's score to the movie "The Incredible Hulk" for Marvel Pictures.
March 2008 - orchestrating and writing tracks for new library music album produced by L.A. based Killer Tracks - "Apocalypse". Recording in Sofia.
Remastering my score to "The 4 Musketeers" for its imminent release by Movie Score Media. Great that this score is finally getting a commercial release (on 22nd April) - available via their website www.moviescoremedia.com. Mikael Carlsson is doing a fantastic job in getting previously unreleased movie scores to a wider audience.
Working on exciting new writing project with ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett
February 2008 - working on orchestrations for the Ramin Djawadi score to the Marvel Pictures movie "Ironman", recording at Air Studios.
Conducted Daniel Giorgetti's score to the BBC drama "The Curse of Steptoe".
January 2008 – STOP PRESS - 4 of the films I worked on last year have just received Oscar® nominations: The Assassination of Jesse James, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Mongol and Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
December 2007 - In France working on orchestrations for the Willie Dowling score to the movie “Caught in the Act” – recording in Sofia (Bulgaria) in January. Elected to the committee of the Musicians Union Music Writers Section. “Assassination of Jesse James” movie finally released – score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (which I orchestrated and conducted) is getting a lot of deserved critical acclaim.
November 2007 - Orchestrated music for the Randy Edelman score to the Fox romcom “27 Dresses”. Cute film and a lovely score from the hugely talented and irrepressible Mr Edelman. Recorded at Abbey Road with the London Session Orchestra. Arranged and conducted Jennie Muskett’s score to the BBC drama “Miss Austen Regrets” at Olympic Studios. Really interesting piano-led score from Jennie which manages to be both contemporary and period sounding at the same time. Conducted string sessions for the Israeli artist Aviv Geffen at Air Studios, produced by Steve Orchard. Conducted orchestral sessions for the young Finnish composer Panu Aaltio’s first movie score to “The Home of Dark Butterflies”.
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