Martin Phipps

Martin Phipps has composed and produced soundtracks for television dramas, such as North & South (BBC, 2004), Sense & Sensibility (BBC, 2008) and Persuasion (ITV, 2007). Coming from a musical background (he is Benjamin Britten’s godson), Martin read drama at Manchester University – fortunately for the acting world, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Martin's music is consistently innovative, and strikes at the emotional heart of the drama. Following the early critical success of Eureka Street he went on to score the BBC period dramas North and South and Elizabeth - The Virgin Queen; an enchanting score, in which he incorporated the wonderful voices of the Medieval Babes to excellent effect, and for which he was recognised with the Ivor Novello Award 2007 and an RTS Award for Best Original Score. Martin scored the gripping drama Low Winter Sun, for Channel 4, starring Mark Strong and Brian McCardie and Ruby In The Smoke, the first of the Sally Lockhart Mysteries adapted and written by Phillip Pullman for the BBC. He scored Persuasion, the most recent ITV adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, and Grow Your Own, a feature for Warp Films. He also scored the BBC's adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Andrew Davies. Martin was then commissioned to score the BBC's most recent Oliver Twist adaptation, for which he was recognised with the Ivor Novello Award 2008 for Best Television Soundtrack. Martin most recently finished scoring the Rowan Joffe helmed drama Hurndall for Talkback Thames, as well as Whitechapel alongside Ruth Barrett for Carnival Films. He also scored Wallander for Yellow Bird/Left Bank Pictures, starring Kenneth Branagh, for which he was recognised with the BAFTA Craft Award 2009 for Best Original TV Music. He most recently scored the film feature Endgame, starring William Hurt, Derek Jacobi, Mark Strong, Johnny Lee Miller and Chiwitel Ejiofor, which chronicles the breakdown of 'apartheid' in S. Africa, and was directed by Pete Travis. It has been entered into competition at the Sundance Film Festival. In the summer of 2005 Martin wrote a haunting score to the film Pierrepoint, directed by Adrian Shergold. Other credits include The Wife of Bath from the BBC’s contemporary adaptation of the Canterbury Tales, the acclaimed contemporary drama Dirty Filthy Love, as well as the thriller She’s Gone which starred Ray Winstone. Martin also scored the British feature film, The Flying Scotsman, and the BBC adaptation of the 2004 Man Booker prize winning The Line Of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. Film Credits ENDGAME Daybreak Pictures Director: Pete Travis Producer: Hal Vogel Starring: Mark Strong, William Hurt, Johnny Lee Miller, Derek Jacobi, Chiwitel Ejiofor GROW YOUR OWN Warp Films Director: Richard Laxton Producer: Luke Alkin / Barry Ryan / Carl Hunter Starring: Eddie Marson, Djallili PIERREPOINT - THE LAST HANGMAN Granada Director: Adrian Shergold Producer: Christine Langan Starring: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson THE FLYING SCOTSMAN Mel Films Director: Douglas Mackinnon Producer: Peter Broughan Starring: Johnny Lee Miller Television Credits WALLANDER Yellow Bird/Left Bank Pictures Director: Philip Martin Producers: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Harries Francis Hopkinson, Simon Moseley Starring: Kenneth Branagh *BAFTA Craft Award 2009: Best Original TV Music* WHITECHAPEL Carnival Films Director: S. J. Clarkson Producers: Marcus Wilson, Sally Woodward-Gentle Starring: Rupert Penry-Jones THE SHOOTING OF THOMAS HURNDALL Talkback Thames Director: Rowan Joffe Producer: Barney Reisz Starring: Steve Dillane, Kerry Fox OLIVER TWIST (BBC) Director: Coky Giedroyc Producer: Sarah Brown Starring: Timothy Spall, Sophie Okenedo, Tom Hardy *Ivor Novello Award 2008* SENSE AND SENSIBILITY BBC Director: John Alexander Producer: Anne Pivcevic Starring: David Morrisey *RTS Award Winner 2008: Best Original Title Music* *BAFTA Craft Nomination 2009: Best Original TV Music* PERSUASION (ITV) Director: Adrian Shergold Producer: David Snodin Starring: Sally Hawkins, Rupert Penry-Jones RUBY IN THE SMOKE (BBC) Director: Brian Percival Producer: Kate Bartlett Starring: Billie Piper, Julie Walters, J.J. Field LOW WINTER SUN (Channel 4) Director: Adrian Shergold Producer: Rhonda Smith Starring: Mark Strong, Brian McCardie THE LINE OF BEAUTY (BBC) Director: Saul Dibb Producer: Kate Lewis Starring: Dan Stevens THE VIRGIN QUEEN (BBC) Director: Coky Giedroyc Producer: Paul Rutman Starring: Anne Marie Duff, Tom Hardy *Ivor Novello Award 2007* *RTS Award 2006: Best Original Film Score* NORTH & SOUTH (BBC) Director: Brian Percival Producer: Kate Bartlett *Ivor Novello Nomination 2005* DIRTY FILTHY LOVE Granada Director: Adrian Shergold Producer: Christine Langan SHE'S GONE Size Nine Productions/ITV Director: Adrian Shergold Producer: Joshua St Johnstone CANTERBURY TALES - Wife of Bath (BBC) Director: Andy de Emmony Producer: Kate Bartlett READY WHEN YOU ARE MR.MCGILL Working Title TV Director: Paul Seed Producer: Lynn Horsford Written by Jack Rosenthal THE DEBT (BBC) Director: Jon Jones Producer: Pier Wilkie Starring: Warren Clark, Hugo Speer NICE GUY EDDIE (BBC Northern Ireland) Director: Douglas McKinnon & Alan Macmillan Producer: Paddy Higson Starring: Ricky Tomlinson *RTS Nomination 2003* BOB & ROSE Red Productions for ITV Director: Julian Ferrino, Joe Wright Producer: Annie Harrison-Baxter, Nicola Schindler Starring: Alan Davis FABULOUS BAGEL BOYS Skyline Productions Director: John Alexander Producer: Sophie Gardiner HEARTS AND BONES (SERIES I & II) United Productions for BBC1 Directors: Tom Shankland, John Alexander Producer: Sally Haynes KID IN THE CORNER Tiger Aspect Production for C4 Director: Billie Eltringham Producer: Kate Anthony EUREKA STREET Euphoria Films for BBC2 Director: Adrian Shergold Producer: Sophie Gardiner Read more on Last.fm. 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