David Mitcham B.Mus. (Hons.) ARCM - Composer

David Mitcham is a widely experienced screen composer, arranger and sound designer

From a classical background, he has developed his skills to cover many styles of composition from orchestral music to jazz and music with ethnic influences. As a multi-instrumentalist he is also able to bring an acoustic warmth to his electronically-based scores.

David has his own studio in Wiltshire which is equipped with a state of the art digital recording system as well as synthesizers and samplers. He uses the Logic Audio music production system for music creation, score and part printing and sound manipulation. For projects using larger groups of musicians David has a good working relationship with studios such as Abbey Road, Angel, Whitfield Street and The Snake Ranch.

His team is used to working to tight timescales and can handle all aspects of the music production process.

David's music is performed by some outstanding musicians from the LSO, the LCO, the London Mozart Players, the Nash Ensemble, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Delme String Quartet and the Joyful Company of Singers.

Examples of Work:

Film and Television

Music score for the feature film "Three Guesses" featuring the voice of Alison Limerick.
Music for “Blood of the Vikings” a major 5 part series for BBC2 performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and The Joyful Company of Singers.
Theme and incidental music for “What the Victorians did for us” an 8 part series for BBC2.
Music score for a “Seychelles – Jewels of a lost continent” for the BBC Natural History Unit - part of The Natural World strand.
Christmas Unwrapped - Music and sound design for a 12-part series of short animated films for Channel 4 on the pagan roots of the Christmas festival for Tiger Aspect.
Music score for the feature film "Bad Light"
Music score for the feature film "Future Imperfect"
Music score for the documentary "Desert Orchid - Living With The Legend" for Channel 4.
Title and incidental music for Diverse Production's "Computing for the Terrified" and "Computing for the Less Terrified" - two seven-part series for the BBC.
Title and incidental music for "Geiger Sweet, Geiger Sour" - a major documentary for the BBC and NHK.
Music for TV commercials including Heineken, The Daily Mirror and House of Fraser.

Library music

To date nine albums of music ranging from electronic to full orchestra written for Carlin, Chappell and Josef Weinberger recorded music libraries. The latest album of pastoral orchestral music for Carlin Music has just been released.

Concert Music

"This Roaring Peace" first performed in St James's Piccadilly. A major cantata setting the poetry of Edward Thomas for choir, soloists and orchestra.
"Caprice" for Trombone and Piano.
"Let There Be Flutes" A suite of pieces for six-part Flute Choir published by Brass Wind Publications. A second and third suite are now in preparation
"The Spirit Within" for solo Harp
"Into The Light" for large orchestra

Other Media

Music composition and sound design for The Pavilion of The 21st Century at Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Music composition for Secrets of the Pyramid - an epic theme park ride in Spain opened summer 2000.
Music score for Shaping a Nation - a new Scottish cultural centre in Edinburgh.
Atmospheric soundscapes for the Life! centre in Newcastle.
Score for a new film about The Wildfowl and Wetland Trust 2000
Music for a large format film for Vinopolis City of Wine on the South Bank 1999.
Music for the new Gaia Centre in Athens 1999.
Three major filmscores for symphony orchestra combined with ethnic instruments and rock rhythm section for Olympic Spirit - a new entertainment complex in Munich which opened 1999.
Atmospheric music and sound design for the Neptune Court project at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich which opened 1999.
Music featuring traditional Chinese instruments, orchestra and keyboards for the Macau Pavilion of the Lisbon Expo 1998.
Music and sound design for the Shell Pavilion of the Lisbon Expo 1998.
Music and sound design for Goodwick Marine Park - a major entertainment project in Wales for Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
A suite of symphonic music written and recorded for the Singapore Discovery Centre.
Incidental music for the Holocaust section of the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
Music for the world wide launch of the current Range Rover and the launch of the Land Rover Freelander.
“What the Tudors and Stuarts did for us” music for the new Adam Hart Davies BBC TV series

Award Nomination

David's score for The Spirit of Macau - the finale film in the Macau Pavilion of the 1998 Lisbon Expo - was nominated for Best Music in the 1999 International Visual Communication Association craft awards.

Work in Progress

Why War? - a surround sound collage of music, voices and sound effects for a vast new gallery in the Imperial War Museum North (Manchester) for Media Projects International.

Manor Cottage
Stert
Devizes
Wiltshire SN10 3JD

Tel 01380 720141 Fax 01380 721387

www.davidmitcham.com

VAT No 446 8223 38

Member of the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters