Since leaving Cardiff University with an M.Mus. in composition, and an early stint as a session musician & arranger for Dave Stewart’s Anxious Records in London, I have subsequently enjoyed a long and successful career as a composer for concert platform, theatre, television, and film. Alongside numerous nominations, I have won awards that... Read More

Since leaving Cardiff University with an M.Mus. in composition, and an early stint as a session musician & arranger for Dave Stewart’s Anxious Records in London, I have subsequently enjoyed a long and successful career as a composer for concert platform, theatre, television, and film. Alongside numerous nominations, I have won awards that include two BAFTA Wales Awards in the Best Original Music category for specially composed scores for the BBC commissioned film featuring contemporary mixed-abilities dance company Cyrff Ystwyth, directed by Paul Islwyn Thomas, and his orchestral score for the BBC Wales Arts series The Big Picture, directed by Ceri Sherlock. My interest in sound and music first appeared in a piece called Breakbeat, for string orchestra and four turntables/samplers, which was shown as part of the S4C series Y Cyfansoddwyr (The Composers). Other commissions include work for The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, The Arts Council of Wales, The Welsh National Opera Orchestra Brass Consort, Elin Manahan Thomas, Ffotogallery, Element Films, Walk The Plank, The Wales Millennium Centre, and Faber Music. Read Less