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Paul Englishby | |
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| Occupations | Composer, orchestrator, conductor, pianist |
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Paul Englishby is a film and theatre composer, orchestrator, conductor, and pianist. He is best known for hisEmmy Award-winning jazz score forDavid Hare'sPage Eight, his orchestral score for theOscar nominatedAn Education, hisBAFTA nominated score for the BBC'sLuther and his many theatre scores for theRoyal Shakespeare Company, with whom Paul is an associated artist.
Englishby was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1970. He was musically active by his teenage years, performing as a pianist in big bands and jazz ensembles as well as writing and composing his own works.[1] He studied atGoldsmiths' College and at theRoyal Academy of Music, where he received the Charles Lucas Prize for Composition and the Arthur Hervey Scholarship, as well as receiving a BBC Sound on Film Commission.[2]The Last Clarinet for orchestra and narrator was Englishby's first published work, and continues to be performed internationally. His other works includeShort Symphony (1997),String Quartet (1995) andBlackpool Lights for Orchestra (1993). Aside from these Englishby composed pieces for his own group, The Paul Englishby Big Band, which has performed atRonnie Scott's Jazz Club.[1]
In recent years, Englishby has written the original scores for a number of films and television programmes. In 2012 he won theEmmy Award for Best Original Main Title Theme Music forPage Eight, starringBill Nighy andRachel Weisz. He also received anIvor Novello nomination.
Englishby is a prolific composer for the BBC, scoring all five series of the critically acclaimed dramaLuther, starringIdris Elba, for which he received aBAFTA nomination. He has also scored two series of the hit seriesThe Musketeers.[3]
He won theASCAP Award in 2009 for his film score toMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, directed byBharat Nalluri. He also wrote the score forLone Scherfig'sOscar nominated featureAn Education, starringCarey Mulligan, andA Royal Night Out, starringRupert Everett andBel Powley. He was also music director and composer for the 2013 filmSunshine On Leith, featuring songs byThe Proclaimers, and directed byDexter Fletcher.Englishby has collaborated with world-class film directors, includingStephen Mangan on critically acclaimed Brit-flickConfetti, and on the filmTen Minutes Older featuring works from directorsSpike Lee,Werner Herzog,Bernardo Bertolucci,Mike Figgis andJean-Luc Godard.[4]
As well as commissions for film and TV, he has composed classical works for various ensembles. His credits includeThe Last Clarinet for solo clarinet, orchestra and narrator in 1995,Byron for large orchestra andWeep No More for string orchestra.Englishby also recently completed a large public arts commission entitledFireworks, several pieces for choir, orchestra, chamber group and school children, in commemoration of the Combe Down Stone Mines Project in Bath.
Englishby has worked on over twenty productions for theRoyal Shakespeare Company. Recent credits includeGregory Doran'sThe Hollow Crown, starringDavid Tennant asRichard II, andAnthony Sher asFalstaff inHenry IV. Other credits for the RSC includeDeath of a Salesman (starring Anthony Sher andHarriet Walter),Twelfth Night (starringRichard Wilson),Hamlet (starring David Tennant),The Merry Wives of Windsor (starringJudi Dench),Love's Labour's Lost andA Midsummer Night's Dream.
In 2013, Englishby scoredPeter Morgan'sThe Audience, starringHelen Mirren as QueenElizabeth II.The Audience, with Mirren, transferred to Broadway in 2015, withKristin Scott Thomas taking up the role in the West End. In 2014, Englishby wrote the music for David Hare'sSkylight, starring Bill Nighy andCarey Mulligan, which also transferred to Broadway from the West End in 2015.
Other notable credits includeRed Velvet, starringAdrian Lester, which played at theGarrick Theatre in early 2016,Hedda Gabler, starringSheridan Smith atthe Old Vic, andEmil and the Detectives at theNational Theatre.
As orchestrator, conductor, and pianist, Englishby has worked with The London Orchestra,Britten Sinfonia,London Musici, Tallis Chamber Choir,Fibonacci Sequence andBBC Concert Orchestra to name a few. He has conducted on studio sessions and film scores both in the UK and abroad, as well as on recordings and broadcasts for radio and television. Credits includeRichard Eyre'sThe Other Man andMichael Radford'sFlawless in 2008.[2] He worked on the Universal movieYour Highness, starringNatalie Portman andJames Franco, released in 2011. Englishby orchestrated and conductedTony Banks's classical albumSix: Pieces for Orchestra, released in 2012.
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