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Bio

Composer for film and television
BAFTA Crew 2021

I scored my first feature film, Inmate Zero, in 2018, recording more than 50 minutes of music with the Sofia Session Orchestra and Choir in Sofia, Bulgaria. I co-scored my first prime-time television documentary also in 2018 - the RTS award-winning Drowning in Plastic, which premiered on BBC1 in October. At the beginning of 2019 I wrote the music for Alien Containment - one of six short films set in the official Alien universe - as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Ridley Scott's 1979 original. I wrote the music for indie feature documentary The Unknown Masterpiece in March of that year, and at the end of 2019 I scored my second feature, the dark comedy-thriller Get Luke Lowe. In 2020 I am scoring my third narrative feature, the romantic comedy Much Ado - a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s popular play - and the dark-comedy Western short When the West is Done with You.

I also score commercials, with clients including Booking.com, Betway, and L'Oreal. When I'm not scoring to picture, I write production music for libraries including EMI, BMG, and BAM, and I have had music synched in such television programmes as The Apprentice, Panorama, and WWE, as well as for film trailers, including Dumbo, Logan Lucky, and Live by Night.

Through scoring to picture and writing production music, I have enjoyed recording my music at Abbey Road and Angel Studios in London, as well as studios abroad in Budapest and Sofia.

I gained my Batchelor of Music from City University in 2007, specialising in instrumental and electroacoustic composition, as well as the study of ethnomusicology. While I am continuing the former professionally through writing for film and television, I keep up my pursuit of the latter between projects, travelling as much as I can, and learning about the music of the places I visit. My travels so far have enabled me to take percussion lessons in Cuba, Belize, Colombia and India, building upon my 25 years as a classically-trained drummer and percussionist.

I was one of the Pandemonium Drummers who performed at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

I am a member of the BAFTA Crew 2020 talent development programme.