Member Bio
Writing music professionally since 2007 and and winning the Best Composer category at RTS Bristol 2023 (also nominated in 2021 and 2019). I work from Picture Shop off of Whiteladies Road in Bristol, where I compose for various media projects. This includes documentaries (for BBC, Bilibili, Channel 4, Channel 5 and CBBC), drama short films and features, animated series and shorts (including several with Aardman), and branded content for various companies (Aardman, Blink, Storm and Shelter, Viewpoint) and clients (Barbour, Royal Mail, Cox and Cox, Arup, Pink Lady Apples, Transport for Wales, Dupixent, The Royal Opera House, Bristol Old Vic, B and Q, Barnardos, Amnesty International).
My primary motivation is storytelling and branding, and I work in a variety of genres to best support the narrative of the project, though my background is in classical music and experimental rock. I always want to experiment to make each project unique, so alongside playing live pianos, guitar and drums (plus various other acoustic instruments) I compose using the most modern digital sample/synthesis equipment, alongside analogue modular synth. I hold a 1st class degree in commercial music composition.
I have an additional understanding of music for media from my career outside composing. Working as a dubbing mixer and dubbing editor/creative sound designer, I have over a decade’s experience in TV (Countryfile, Gardeners World, One Born Every Minute, Simply Nigella, and numerous BBC Studios and BBC NHU documentaries as well as on many commercial projects for Aardman). Before this, I worked as a boom op on TV dramas and feature films including Downton Abbey, Broken, I Give It A Year, and Belle. This expertise across all areas of soundtrack production, as well as being around editing suites on a daily basis, gives me a rounded knowledge of how a whole soundtrack comes together, and where how and why to use music to effectively tell a story.