Simon Hale

Simon Hale ( born April 23, 1964 in Birmingham ) is a British composer, arranger and keyboard player.

Life and work

Hale grew up in the Midlands, where he classical piano and later also received violin lessons. Between 1982 and 1985 he studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London between 1982-85. He also took a film music course in the USA. In 1985 he received from Valley College in Los Angeles the order, its Suite East Fourteen to compose for piano and strings. Until 1994 he worked as a studio musician, for example, with the jazz-rock band System X. In 1992, he composed his Suite East Fifteen, which he performed with Tim Garland, Dave O'Higgins, Noel Langley, Rald Salmiņš and strings. Then he worked as an arranger for Jamiroquai, Björk, Madness, Incognito, Supergrass, The Beautiful South, George Benson, Josh Groban, Charlotte Church and Robin Gibb. For Duncan Sheik, he arranged both his albums as well as the music for the feature film A Home at the End of the World and the musical Spring Awakening ( which received eight Tony Awards in 2007, Hale was thereby awarded Sheik for "Best Orchestration "). He also worked as a film composer. Together with Andrew Hale, he wrote the soundtrack for LA Noire, on the recording, he was involved as a pianist and conductor ..

Disco Graphical Notes

• East Fifteen ( EFZ Records 1992)

Lexical entries

• Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide Metzler, Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X