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Look
out for 'The True Story' series on Five for which David
wrote the music (9pm Wednesdays in April and May). This
is a series of documentaries about the real characters on
which famous film were based (James Bond, Indiana Jones
and The Amityville Horror are among the subjects).
David
has just finished working on the RTS award-winning score
for Charlie & Lola for Tiger Aspect. He has
also been scoring many other films and documentaries, as
well as another children's show, Tommy Zoom for
CBeebies.
He
is currently working on the score to a major new series
for BBC as well as two feature documentaries.
You can listen to clips from David's soundtracks on the
FILM & TV page (video clips will
be available when the new website goes online shortly).
You can download and print David's CV here.
RECENT
AWARDS
Charlie
& Lola (Series 2) recently won 'Best Original Score'
for 2006-7 at the Royal
Television Society Craft Awards. The winner was announced
at the Savoy on 29th November 2007, and the jury had these
lovely words to say about the music for the show: "Totally
new, inspired, varied, incredible and a minor miracle!".
David and fellow-composer John Greswell are totally delighted,
especially as it was the only children's programme nominated
in any of the award categories.
Charlie & Lola (Series 2) also won 'Best Pre-School
Series' at the 2007 Children's BAFTAs
and walked away with the same prize at the 2008 British
Animation Awards. The show has picked up a raft of other
accolades including 'Best Children's Show' in the Broadcast
Awards 2007.
City
of Cranes has received the best documentary award at
the 2008 Full Frame Film Festival.
Asylum,
Jenni Linko's excellent film about two Afgan boys and a
Somali girl seeking asylum in Finland, recently won the
Documentary Film Prize at Germany's Lubeck Film Festival.
The film was broadcast on the Finnish YLE Channel,
and had a very nice write up in the main Finnish broadsheet,
which also mentioned the film having 'wonderful music'.
Sunny
Intervals
and Showers, Jonathan Levitt's documentary about
manic depression was one of four films recently nominated
for the prestigious Grierson award in this year's British
Documentary Awards. It was also nominated for Best Documentary
at the Mental Health Media Awards held at BAFTA. David is
working on Jonathan's very exciting new feature project.
ARTSONGS
ArtSongs, by Agnes & Aubrey (of which David
is a half) is a CD of songs about artists, commissioned
by the Tate. It's got ten quirky, fact-filled songs on,
and can be bought from any of the Tate Gallery's shops,
or ordered from their Online
Store or from Amazon.co.uk.
It is also now available in the US, e.g. from Amazon.
You can listen to a couple of the songs here.
David is working on another CD of non art-related songs.
You can buy previous CDs here.
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last updated 22/04/08
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