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WINNER 2015

Jerry Goldsmith Awards Laurel

BEST COMPOSER, 2013

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

KENSUKE'S KINGDOM

[BAFTA NOMINATION for Best Children's & Family Film]

Winner, BEST FEATURE FILM SCORE, XVI Jerry Goldsmith Awards, MOSMA 2025
Winner, CRYSTAL PINE AWARD for BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - FEATURE FILM, International Sound and Film Music Festival, 2025
Nominated, BEST MUSIC - FEATURE FILM, Annie Awards, 2025
Nominated, SCORE OF THE YEAR (Top 5) and ANIMATED FILM SCORE OF THE YEAR, International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards, 2024
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC, British Animation Awards, 2024
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL COMPOSITION IN A FEATURE FILM, Music+Sound Awards, 2024
Winner, BEST FILM SCORE, Mon Premier Festival, October 2023
Winner, VIOLETTA D'ORO for Best Soundtrack, Parma International Music Film Festival 2024
Award of Excellence for ORIGINAL MUSIC, Accolade Global Film Competition, 2024
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, World Class Film Awards, 2025
Winner, BEST SOUNDTRACK, World Entertainment Awards, 2025
Award of Excellence for ORIGINAL MUSIC, IndieFEST USA International Film Festival, 2024
Winner, BEST SCORE OF THE SUMMER, American Tracks Music Awards, 2024
Winner, BEST SCORE, The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards, Autumn 2024
Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement, ORIGINAL SCORE, Global Music Awards, 2024
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, London Movie Awards, October 2024
Gold Award for ORIGINAL SCORE, Hollywood Gold Awards, October 2024
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, New York Movie Awards, November 2024
Winner, BEST SCORE FOR AN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM, Movie Music International Recognition Awards 2024

A FRIEND OF DOROTHY

[ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION for Best Live Action Short Film]

Nominated, CRYSTAL PINE AWARD for BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - SHORT FILM, International Sound and Film Music Festival, 2026
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL COMPOSITION IN A SHORT FILM, Music+Sound Awards, 2025
Award of Excellence [Special Mention] for ORIGINAL MUSIC, Best Shorts Competition, 2026
Gold Medal Award of Excellence, ORIGINAL SCORE, Global Music Awards, 2026
Award of Excellence for ORIGINAL SCORE, Accolade Global Film Competition, 2026

LARGO

Finalist, BEST ORIGINAL COMPOSITION IN A SHORT FILM, Music+Sound Awards, 2025
Award of Excellence for ORIGINAL MUSIC, Best Shorts Competition, 2024
Nominated, BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A SHORT FILM, International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards, 2025
Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement, ORIGINAL SCORE, Global Music Awards, 2026

STARGAZERS

Winner, CRYSTAL PINE AWARD for BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - FEATURE FILM, International Sound and Film Music Festival, 2026
Award of Excellence for ORIGINAL SCORE, Accolade Global Film Competition, 2026
Winner, BEST SCORE, Romford Film Festival, 2026

WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT

Winner, BEST SHORT FILM SCORE, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, 2017
Winner, BEST ORIGINAL COMPOSITION IN A SHORT FILM, Music+Sound Awards, 2017
Nominated, BEST SHORT ANIMATION SCORE, Hollywood Music In Media Awards, 2017

SNAPSHOT SONGS

BASCA British Composer Awards WINNER 2015
Best Community/Educational Project - ceremony 9/12/15, BFI Southbank, London

ASCAP FOUNDATION HAROLD ARLEN FILM & TV AWARD

ASCAP Film and Television Scoring Workshop, Los Angeles, December 2014
Awarded for "excellence, professionalism, musical ability and career potential"

JERRY GOLDSMITH AWARDS

BEST COMPOSER, 2013, International Film Music Festival, Cordoba
Category wins: Kensuke's Kingdom (Best Feature Film Score, 2025), The Desert Treasure (Best Documentary Score, 2013), Killing Thyme (Best Live Action Short Film Score, 2016), We're Going On A Bear Hunt (Best Short Film Score, 2017), One Week (Best Free Creation, 2014), Unknown Heart (Best Song, 2014)

KILLING THYME

Winner of BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM SCORE, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, 2016

HAWK

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE (featurette), Idyllwild Cinema Festival, California, 2013
BRONZE MEDAL Best Impact of Music in a Short Film - Park City Film Music Festival, 2014
Runner-up for BEST FILM SCORE, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, 2013

THE LAST BELLE

GOLD MEDAL for Best Impact of Music in a Short Film - Park City Film Music Festival, 2014
Nominated, BEST SHORT FILM SCORE, Hollywood Music In Media Awards (Nov 2013)
GRAND PRIZE, Best Animated Film, Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2012
Pre-selected for BEST SHORT ANIMATION SCORE, Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2013

THE DESERT TREASURE (Plants Of Qatar)

VIOLETTA D'ORO for Best Soundtrack, Parma International Music Film Festival 2013
GOLD MEDAL Best Impact of Music in a Documentary - Park City Film Music Festival, 2014
Winner of BEST DOCUMENTARY SCORE, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, 2013

ONE WEEK (new Buster Keaton score)

Winner of BEST FREE CREATION, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, 2014

"Take My Hand" from UNKNOWN HEART

Winner of BEST SONG, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, 2014

PICTUREHOUSE

Nominated, BEST COMMERCIAL SCORE, Hollywood Music In Media Awards (Nov 2013)
Pre-selected for BEST COMMERCIAL SCORE, Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2013

CAMELOT Hero's Return

Clio Awards, New York, GOLD for Sound Design/Music, 2013

Eurobest GOLD for Sound Design/Music, 2012
Kinsale Sharks GOLD for Best Music/Sound Design, 2012
British Advertising and Television Craft Awards, Music/Sound Design nomination, 2012

GIN & DRY

BEST COMEDY, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, 2012
BEST COMEDY SHORT FILM
Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2011

EMR

BEST FEATURE FILM
Raindance Film Festival
London, 2004

BURBERRY Rain

GOLD Award from the
Art Directors' Club of
New York, 2003

BBC WORLD CUP

D&AD Silver
Nomination, 2003

BBFC The Unknown

British Advertising and
Television Craft Awards 2003

LUCKY STAR

Silent Sound Films
National Competition
Winner, 1999

FILM SCORES

TELEVISION SCORES

SCORES (as orchestrator)

THEATRE MUSIC

PANDORA'S BOX (Youth/Family Opera)
commissioned by London Youth Opera, with libretto by Donald Sturrock.
Premiered December 16th/17th 2023, Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London

THE CUTLASS CREW (Youth/Family Opera)
commissioned by W11 Opera for Young People, with libretto by Donald Sturrock.
Premiered December 8th/9th/10th 2017, POSK Theatre, Hammersmith
US Premiere - North Cambridge Family Opera, Massachusetts - March/April 2023

RAIN DANCE (Youth/Family Opera)
commissioned by W11 Opera for Young People, with libretto by Donald Sturrock.
Premiered 3rd/4th/5th December 2010, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
US Premiere - North Cambridge Family Opera, Massachusetts - March/April 2014
US Revival - North Cambridge Family Opera, Massachusetts - March 2024

The Father (Strindberg) - dir. Niki Flacks, Borealis Productions
The Courtyard Theatre, Covent Garden, London, October 17th - November 12th 2006

CONCERT MUSIC

WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT: The Film - Live in Concert [45']
Concert presentation of the animated film score (performed live-to-picture)
complete with introduction, tour of the musicians and musical themes, and interactive singalong sections.
PERFORMANCE VERSIONS - ENQUIRE HERE:

  • Orchestra (2-1-2-1, 3-0-2-1, Hp, Pf(=cel), Stgs 8-6-4-4-2)
  • Reduced Orchestra (1-1-1-1, 1-0-1-0, Hp, Pf(=cel), Stgs 4-3-3-3-1)
  • NEW FOR 2026: Brass Band
  • NEW FOR 2026: Symphonic Wind Band

    • Century Overture [5']
    Commissioned by the London Phoenix Orchestra to open their 100th Concert Season
    Premiered at St John's Smith Square, October 25th 2023
    London Phoenix Orchestra, cond. Lev Parikian

    Sovereign - for String Orchestra [5']
    Commissioned by The Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra (CWSO) in honour of HM King Charles III
    Premiered at the Presentation of Loyal Adresses by Privileged Bodies, Buckhingham Palace, March 9th 2023
    and at the Royal Military Chapel, Birdcage Walk, London, May 25th 2023, cond. Capt Sarah Marinescu

    Expanse - for String Orchestra [9']
    Commissioned by Dame Alice Owen's School
    Premiered by Dame Alice Owen's School Senior Strings in competiton at Music for Youth, Watford, March 1st 2020
    and at Edward Guinness Hall, Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, March 3rd 2020, cond. James Widden

    Variations on a Heroic Theme [6']
    Concert show-piece, commissioned by the Rehearsal Orchestra
    Premiered by the Bridgewater Sinfonia, cond. Steven Joyce
    November 30th 2019, St Peter's Church Berkhamsted

    Rhapsody, for accordion orchestra [5']
    Commissioned by the London Accordion Orchestra, cond. Ian Watson
    Premiered (in competition) at the World Accordion Championships
    May 6th 2016, Congress Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Snapshot Songs [90']
    Song Cycle for varied voices, commissioned by the SHM Foundation
    Premiered by the LSSO, Snapshot Songs choir and soloists and Drumheads, cond. Peter Ash
    April 13th and 14th 2014, Milton Court Concert Hall (Barbican), London

    One Week (Buster Keaton short film score for live performance) [19']
    New orchestral score commissioned and premiered
    by St Pauls Sinfonia, cond. Andy Morley
    May 20th 2011, St Pauls Deptford, London

    Folksong Suite [11']
    Suite for unaccompanied choir SATB based on traditional English folksongs,
    commissioned by Making Music for the Voices Now Festival
    Premiered by the Holst Singers, cond. Stephen Layton, 26th March 2011, The Roundhouse, London

    Choir Straits [20']
    Cantata for unaccompanied choir SATB with soloists, with lyrics by Kit Hesketh-Harvey
    commissioned by Gerry Mattock and Beryl Calver-Jones.
    Premiered by the Bath Camerata/Kit & The Widow, cond. Simon Trist, 17th December 2009, Wigmore Hall,
    London W1 and at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, 14th February 2010, cond. Nigel Perrin

    Insomniac [7']
    for solo cello, commissioned by Gerry Mattock and Beryl Calver-Jones.
    Premiered by Robert Irvine, 13th March 2008, RSAMD Glasgow

    Song for Peter [4']
    Song for choir SATB
    Premiered and recorded 29th July 2007, Camberwell

    Flight Paths [15']
    Suite for flute, oboe and piano, for the Karrillon Trio.
    Premiere 20th March 2007, Radlett Music Club, Herts, and subsequently performed regularly

    Endeavour - Dances from the Voyages of Captain Cook [15']
    Suite for wind band, for the Palace Band, cond. Caroline Franklyn
    premiere November 26th 2006, Highgate URC, London N6

    Bitter Suite [15']
    For Juice Vocal Ensemble and the London Phoenix Orchestra, cond. Levon Parikian
    premiere June 9th 2006, St John's Smith Square

    Concerto for Violin and Orchestra [30']
    For Paul Barrett, violin, and the Southbank Sinfonia, cond. Leo Hussain
    premiere June 16th 2005, St John's Waterloo

    Raptures - suite for flute, violin, viola and cello [17']
    for the Tullberg Ensemble - premiere October 1st 2003, St John's Smith Square
    subsequently performed on numerous occasions by Sequenza and the Lacarni Ensemble

    Concerto for Two Flutes and Orchestra [30']
    For Susan FitzGerald and Matilda Tullberg, flutes, and the Doppler Sinfonia, cond. Peter Stark,
    premiere May 19th 2003, St John's Smith Square and recorded by the Brno Philharmonic

    Symphonic Suite from Lucky Star [15']
    For the London Phoenix Orchestra, cond. Levon Parikian.
    premiere 5th June 2002, St John's Smith Square and performed
    by the Camden Chamber Orchestra, Royal Holloway Orchestra, Lydian orchestra and Kingston Philharmonia

    Lucky Star (Hollywood feature film score for live performance) [85']
    For the Tempus Chamber Orchestra and Silent Sound Films
    premiere February 23rd 2001, Royal Festival Hall
    and performed by the Oak Hill Orchestra and St Pauls Sinfonia

    RADIO IDENTS and PROMOS (selected)

    TV IDENTS and PROMOS (selected)

    COMMERCIALS (selected)

    Robinsons 'Let There Be Fruit' (Saatchi&Saatchi), Barclays 'Moneyverse' (BBH), Charlie Banana (Nerd Productions), Amazon 'Thank You', Santander (WCRS), Sainsburys 'Little Twists' (AMV BBDO), 3 Mobile (Weiden&Kennedy), Carling The Catch (Creature London), Expedia 'Travel Yourself Interesting' (Ogilvy&Mather), Thatchers Cider (Bray Leino), Scotts/MiracleGro (McGarryBowen), Adidas/Footlocker (Creature London), Ferrero Rocher, Coke Zero (Publicis France), Philips (Ogilvy&Mather), Nike (Wieden+Kennedy), George at Asda (Fallon), Lactofree (Wieden+Kennedy), Camelot (AMV BBDO), Ikea (Mother), Pimms (Mother), Dynamo/Ariel (Malaysia), Daily Mail (M&C Saatchi), HSBC (JWT/Ridley Scott Associates), Monopoly City (DDB Worldwide), Operation Smile (RAPP UK), Clarks Yotoys, Weetos (WCRS), Carling Belong (BMB), Astra (DLKW), Agent Provocateur (test, Storm Films), V8 (DLKW), Tenalady (DLKW), Branstons (DLKW), Royal Navy (COI), Zurich (Joshua), Burger King (DLKW), Daewoo (several campaigns, DFGW), Marks & Spencer (RKCR Y&R), BBFC Unknown (DFGW), COI Aim Higher (DFGW), Rennie (Bates UK), Coco Pops Crunchers (Leo Burnett), UBS (several campaigns, Publicis), Swiss Milk (Will Van Der Vlugt), Bugles (McCann Erickson), Electrabel (Will Van Der Vlugt), McDonald's (several campaigns, Leo Burnett), Walkers Crisps (AMV BBDO)