Paul Englishby

Paul is a prolific and versatile Film and Theatre Composer. Paul’s success in Theatre Music is mirrored by his popularity as a Film composer. In just these last twelve months Paul has composed the music for a sell-out season of plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream; the acclaimed film Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, directed by Bharat Nalluri; and for The Royal Opera House, The Thief Of Baghdad, a new dance work choreographed by Will Tuckett, which premiered in December.

Prior to Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, Paul scored the Peep Show-produced feature Magicians, directed by Andrew O’Connor. Over recent years, Paul has enjoyed collaborations with world class film directors, including Debbie Isitt with her critically acclaimed Brit-flick Confetti, starring Martin Freeman and Jessica Stevenson for 20th Century Fox and for the film Ten Minutes Older featuring works from award-winning directors Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jean Luc-Goddard and more.

As orchestrator, conductor and pianist, Paul has worked with some of the country's leading ensembles; The London Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, London Musici, Tallis Chamber Choir, Fibonacci Sequence, B.B.C. Concert Orchestra. Paul conducts film scores here and abroad with recent credits including Richard Eyre’s The Other Man, Michael Radford’s Flawless and Goal 2.

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