Other work in television includes the hugely popular Luther series’, the BBC’s recent heist thriller Inside Men, Sci Fi eight-parter Outcasts, History of Football for world cup year, Human Jungle, as well as The Score, Hidden Voices and Pictures on the Piano as part of the prestigious Sound-on Film series. He recently provided the Jazz and Big Band arrangements for Stephen Poliakoff’s forthcoming Dancing on the Edge.

Paul has written dozens of scores for the stage, including many for the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he is an Associate Artist. These include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Loves Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Cardenio, Written on the Heart and many more.

Other Theatre and Dance includes South Downs and the Browning Version, currently running in the west end, Pleasures’ Progress and The Thief of Baghdad for the Royal Opera House, choreographed by Will Tuckett, with whom Paul worked extensively. Their recent work includes The Crane Maiden premiered in Yokahama, Japan, Les Grandes Bals de Legende, first performed at Buckingham Palace, and Who Is This That Comes for Opera North.

Paul’s concert music embraces orchestral and chamber works, community commissions and work for children, as well as his extensive Jazz catalogue. He has contributed arrangements and orchestrations for many feature films, and continues to perform on the piano with his Big Band and conduct studio sessions.


 

Biography

Paul Englishby conducting

Paul studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and at Goldsmiths’ College. He has written highly acclaimed scores for Film, Television, Theatre, Dance, and the Concert Hall.

He is recipient of various prizes and Awards including ASCAP and Ritzy awards and the Charles Lucas prize.

Paul’s film scores include the Oscar nominated An Education directed by Lone Sherfig and starring Carey Mulligan, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, directed by Bharat Nalluri and starring Amy Adams, the Peep Show team’s Magicians, Brit Flick Confetti, starring Martin Freeman and Jessica Hynes, Ten Minutes Older,  which featured contributions by directors Jean-Luc Goddard, Mike Figgis,  Spike Lee, Werner Herzog and Jim Jarmusch.

Notable films for Television include Hamlet, a location-set feature version of the RSC’s acclaimed production starring David Tennant, An Englishman in New York, starring John Hurt, and David Hare’s Page Eight, for which Paul is nominated for this year’s Ivor Novello Award for best television soundtrack.

 

 

Photo by Johan Persson