Murray Gold

Murray Gold ( born February 28, 1969 in Portsmouth) is a British film music composer, stage and radio playwright. Gold currently lives in New York.

  • 3.1 Filmography (selection)
  • 3.2 stage plays
  • 3.3 Radio Plays

Biography

Gold began at the age of six with piano and later also with clarinet lessons. Already at school, his focus shifted but with eight years in the direction of improvisation and composition. Inter alia His first compositions at school for brass bands were in his own words " the victory in school competitions and for the girls to please ". With the writing incidental music he had just begun " to experiment with his multitrack recorders ". He subsequently became musical director of the comedy group The Footlights. During his history studies at Cambridge, he began to write plays, the scores composes himself and played with Colin Greenwood of Radiohead in a band. After graduating, he began among others composing for the theater The Gate. Following the success of the show Glue Wedding at the Edinburgh Festival 1991 he composed music for television documentaries, worked for the radio show The Knowledge on Radio 1 and worked as a writer for Channel 5 When Mark Mundon, one of documentary directors, the contract for Vanity was fair, he asked Gold if he wanted to write the score. Here Russell T Davies, who for Queer as Folk ( UK Original ) was a short time without composers stood there, pay attention to him.

Career

TV

Gold has been working since 1999, often together with the screenwriter and television producer Russell T Davies. So he composed for the British series Queer as Folk, The Second Coming ( with Christopher Eccleston ), mine all mine and Casanova ( with David Tennant ) before the musical director for the TV series Doctor Who was in 2005. He also wrote the theme of the Channel 4 series Shameless and the score for The Devil 's Whore and Single Father ( 2010) with David Tennant.

Doctor Who and spin- offs

During his work for the Doctor Who production he worked on the series theme new ( in the original by Ron Grainer ), which was already in the past with a new incarnation of the Doctor's usual and even if you change from the tenth was the eleventh Doctor. The other compositions of the individual sequences derived from gold. The music of the two emitted in Germany squadrons appeared on 11 December 2006 under the title Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack. The soundtrack of the third (5 November 2007 ) and the soundtrack of the fourth season (November 2008) have been published on each separate albums. In the Christmas Special 2007 Voyage of the Damned Gold had a cameo in the band playing there.

Based the music at the beginning of the new Doctor Who series still on Sampled music, his arrangements were later orchestral. As a rule, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays, supported by vocals of Melanie Pappenheim and others. In the original Doctor Who series (1963-1989) tended innovative, but rather limited instrumentation into the electronic genre.

Gold also wrote the themes for the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood, and composed the soundtracks of the series along with Ben Foster. In contrast to Doctor Who Sound Gold for Torchwood composed specifically darker and mainly electronic. A selection of compositions was published under the title Torchwood: Original Television Soundtrack in August 2008 Gold also arranged the themes for Totally Doctor Who and Doctor Who Confidential, both variations of the Doctor Who theme..

Gold arranged and conducted two live concerts to the music of Doctor Who. The first concert, Doctor Who: A Celebration, the second, the Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms took place in the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff in 2006, held on 27 July 2008 in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Film, Theater and Radio

Gold has composed for a number of British and American films, including for Death at a Funeral Frank Oz and Mischief Night, Alien Autopsy and Veronika Decides to Die, the film music.

His radio play Electricity was awarded the Michael Imison Award for best new radio play after broadcast on Radio 3 in 2001. Has been partially transmitted as a stage play and 2004 premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Other pieces are 50 Revolution, performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre in London in 2000, and Resolution in the Battersea Arts Centre in 1994.

Awards

Gold was four times for a BAFTA in the category of best original score, for Vanity Fair ( 1999), Queer as Folk ( 2000), Casanova (2006) and Doctor Who (2008) nominated. His music for the BAFTA -winner Kiss of Life was awarded the Mozart Prize of the 7th kind on the Aubagne International Film Festival 2003. Glue Wedding His show was nominated at the Edinburgh Festival for the Guardian Award and the Independent Drama Drama Award.

Works (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Stage plays

Radio plays

  • 2001: Electricity
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