Composer
Biography
Scottish film composer born in 1953, with a career spanning more than five decades and over sixty feature scores. He is a frequent collaborator of director Kenneth Branagh, scoring films including Henry V, Hamlet, and Murder on the Orient Express. His other credits range from the Harry Potter and Thor franchises to Brave and Sense and Sensibility. He has occasionally also worked as an actor. He was born in Lanarkshire and graduated in 1975 from the school now called the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, joining Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company as composer and musical director in 1987, two years before Henry V began their work in film; Much Ado About Nothing, Cinderella and Gosford Park are among the scores that followed. Away from film he has written concert music, including Impressions of America and the Coronation March played at Westminster Abbey in 2023.