BIOGRAPHY

Stuart Hancock - a composer and arranger of film, television, commercial, theatre and concert music, and a professional pianist and accompanist. Stuart was born in 1975. He studied at Pomona College, California, and Downing College, Cambridge, before graduating with distinction in 1998 from the Masters course in composing for film and television at the London College of Music, where he studied with film composer Nigel Clarke. Since 1999, he has been with Mcasso Music of Carnaby Street, where he composes and produces music for all commercial media. He now divides his time between Mcasso and his studio in North London.

He has won industry awards for his music and sound design on campaigns for the BBFC, Burberry New York and the BBC World Cup coverage. He has scored many films, both shorts and features - most notably EMR, which won the Raindance Film Festival, and went on general release in summer 2005 following its Cannes premiere. 2001 saw the Royal Festival Hall premiere of his new score for the Hollywood silent movie Lucky Star with the Tempus Chamber Orchestra.

Stuart works as a piano accompanist and repetiteur, as well as composing for the theatre and concert hall. Recent concert works include a Double Flute Concerto, a quartet Raptures for flute, violin, viola and cello, a Violin Concerto, premiered with Paul Barrett and the Southbank Sinfonia in June 2005, and Bitter Suite - a collection of sinister settings of nursery rhymes, performed by the Juice Vocal Ensemble and the London Phoenix Orchestra at St John's Smith Square in June 2006.

For examples of Stuart's compositions, please click here.