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Composers

Amanda Kramer
Daniel Pemberton
The Insects
Paul Mounsey
Jon Wygens
Michael Conn

Nainita Desai & Malcom Laws
Nina & Jonathan Miles
Ian Ritchie
The West India Company
Colin Winston-Fletcher

Born and raised in New York City, Amanda Kramer was exposed to many types of music from a young age. She started playing piano at the age of six and attended Manhattan School of Music Prep. Later, after dropping out of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, she began playing in bands. In 1985 she joined Information Society and recieved her first gold record in 1988. From there she joined the New York based group The Golden Palominos. She has toured with many bands including 10,000 Maniacs, World Party and is a present member of The Psychedelic Furs. Her latest CD features Karl Wallinger (World Party) and his son, Louis, reading selections from William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience". The musical accompaniment features performances by Julee Cruise, David Catlin-Birch, and Caroline Dale. The musical styles vary from string quartets to rock pastiche in an attempt to capture the genius of Blake's work in a musical setting. Amanda has lived in England since 1994.

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Daniel Pemberton's vast composer's catalogue includes music for TV, film, and adverts. In recent years he has scored shows such as Hells Kitchen, That’ll Teach ‘Em, The Edwardian Country House, Bad Lads Army, and George Orwell – A Life In Pictures. He can play the piano to a standard that would fool someone who didn’t know much about the piano and he also plays guitar - rather badly. Daniel has recently completed an epic soundtrack for the forthcoming videogame The Movies featuring over 80 compositions for orchestra, jazz band, and Yamaha DX7. He is also a writer and a fashion DJ, two occupations which, unlike composing, allow him to get out of the house every now and then. Read more

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Tim Norfolk and Bob Locke became known as The Insects in 1996 and started co-writing for Bristol bands such as Massive Attack ('Karma Coma' and 'Euro Child'), and they wrote the track 'Human' from Goldfrapp's best-selling 'Felt Mountain' album. The Insects had written music for several documentaries, an animated feature film 'Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb', feature film 'Love and Death on Long Island' starring John Hurt and Jason Priestly, TV commercials and CD-Roms. Recently they have written the score for the horror film 'Creep', 'XX/XY', and 'Owning Mahony' featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Minnie Driver.

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Paul Mounsey is a Scottish composer who lived for many years in Brazil. A graduate of Trinity College of Music in London, he enjoyed considerable success in Brazil composing for television, film, advertising, and also for the Latin American pop market. His work has ranged from the Brazilian miniseries City of Men to the music for VisitScotland's ad campaign. Music from his solo albums have been consistently used on UK and US television. Paul has written pop hits for Mexican boy bands, had chamber works performed on BBC Radio 3, and he has lived with and recorded the music of indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest. He currently lives on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

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For many years a significant member of the Bristol music scene in the UK , Jon now lives and works in London as an award-winning composer for television and theatre. He has scored for dozens of TV programmes and commercials, including many for Pilot Productions. Jon studied jazz guitar and audio engineering in Manchester and later composition at Goldsmiths University in London. As a session guitarist he has recently worked with Portishead producer Geoff Barrow, US soul singer Mckay and toured supporting Badly Drawn Boy with Bristol based band Jukes. He is also about to release the second album with his experimental post-jazz outfit Limbo.

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Originally a classical guitarist signed to Decca Records, Michael has became one of the leading composers for television, film, and media in the UK. Recently he has started working in the commercial pop and dance area as a writer/producer. His tracks have been released on down-tempo compilations including the new Café Del Mar album. He has also produced and re-mixed tracks with the classical cross-over group Bond, who have charted in the Billboard Crossover and Dance album charts.

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Malcolm and Nainita are long established as film/tv composers and sound designers, writing in almost every musical-style you can imagine, ranging from orchestral, ethnic, contemporary, sound design to dance, urban, and electronic. Together they have worked on many award winning films ranging from the score for the Best Short Film Oscar 2005 nominated 'Little Terrorist', TV Commercials for Fosters, through to feature films such as 'Great Expectations', 'Little Buddha', 'Interview with a Vampire', and over 25 blockbuster features from Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea starring Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, and Maggie Chung. They have also written many memorable scores for over 200 TV films and series such as 'Wildlife On One', 'Battlefield Detectives', and 'Britain AD' for BBC, C4, ITV, C5, Granada, Sky One, Discovery, PBS and History channels.

Nainita has worked as a sound designer on feature films and as a music engineer with many artists including Peter Gabriel, Nigel Kennedy, Ravi Shankar, Daniel Lanois, Papa Wemba, and Sinead O'Connor before joining forces with Malcolm. Malcolm's background as a guitarist led him through being orchestral manager of the English Chamber Orchestra to running a music publishing company before working as a session guitarist (classical, flamenco, folk, and pop) with many international artists. Read more

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Nina Miles was born in Paris and studied at the Paris Conservatoire after years living in India, Tibet, Egypt, Cameroon Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa. She danced professionally for the Paris dance company V2000 and recorded many sessions on the French music scene before coming to London. Her partner Johnathan Miles started his engineering career with the Eurythmics in 1984 before moving to Los Angeles and then Paris. He started Southfields Studios in 1994 and has worked on many location recordings.

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A saxophonist on many recording sessions and producer of Roger Waters' Radio Kaos, Laurie Anderson's Strange Angels and others, Ian Ritchie has become a leading exponent of ambient music. His production of Jay Stapley's Ambient Blues is now on release and he is working on his own ambient jazz album. Read more

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Stephen Luscombe had already made a name as a synthesiser expert when he struck pop gold with Blancmange in the 1980s. He has worked with artists as diverse as Brian Eno and Apache Indian. Luscombe's partner in The West India Company, Pandit Dinesh, continues the line of great musicians in the Dinesh family spanning four generations. Having made his name as a percussionist and singer in India, he took a chance and came to England to learn more about western music. He became the only non-Ghanaian member of Osibisa and worked with many great artists before joining forces with Stephen Luscombe. He still works regularly in India on sessions, concerts and film music.

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A classically trained multi-instrumentalist and composer, Colin Winston-Fletcher has written and recorded literally dozens of works for television and film in the last few years, including parts of the Great Train Journeys and Our Man In... series.

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XTC's Andy Partridge says: "This album is so good that even if I wasn't on it, I'd have to buy it." The Wish List is a ten track album to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society in the UK. Produced by Pilot composer Steve Somerset whose wife has Multiple Sclerosis, it features: Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues, Stephen Duffy, The Dukes Of Stratosphear (aka XTC), Steve Hogarth of Marillion, Phil Thornalley, Peter Blegvad, Harold Budd, Martin Newell and The Shadow Kabinet.

Support a Pilot composer and a great cause! The Wish List is available from The MS Society at £10.00 (inc. p&p or credit card for international orders). Click here to find out more and order online.

A Perspective by Ian Ritchie
A Unique Approach to TV Soundtracks by Neville Farmer