Murray Gold
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Murray Gold (born 1969, Portsmouth, England) is a British composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio.
He has been nominated for a BAFTA three times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999) Queer as Folk (2000) and for Casanova (2006). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television.
His radio play Electricity was awarded the Michael Imison award for best new play after its broadcast on Radio 3 in 2001. It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004 and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Others of his plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994.
He has scored a number of British and American films, most recently Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz and Mischief Night, directed by Penny Woolcock.
Since 2005, he has served as musical director for the new series of Doctor Who for the BBC. In this capacity, he created a new arrangement of the show's theme (originally composed by Ron Grainer) and also composes the show's incidental music. Silva Screen released Gold's Doctor Who incidental music on December 11th. [1] [2] [3]
Gold's initial arrangement of the Doctor Who theme was controversial among some fans due to his decision to leave out the "middle eight" portion of the theme, though he later reinstated it for a rearrangement of the theme introduced in the series' 2005 Christmas episode and subsequently used in the 2006 series of the programme.
He also wrote the theme tunes for Doctor Who spin-offs The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood, and composes music for the latter series alongside Ben Foster. He arranged the theme tunes to Totally Doctor Who and Doctor Who Confidential, both of which are variations on the Doctor Who theme.
In 2006 he recorded a new arrangement of the Blue Peter theme music. Viewers were told the new version would be used from September onwards but, as of November, it has only been used occasionally as incidental music and never for the main titles.
He has worked with Russell T Davies, writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, many times in the past on projects such as Casanova (starring David Tennant), The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston) and Queer as Folk 1 & 2. He has also provided the incidental music for the 2000s version of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) alongside James Bond composer David Arnold, who provided the theme tune. None of his incidental music was released on the soundtrack CD for that show.
He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless. Though this is not yet separately commercially available as a standalone track, the publishers can be contacted to register interest. [1]
There was a campaign during the week of 15 to 21 January 2007 to get the song 'Love Don't Roam' into the UK Top 40. This song, which was written by Murray Gold and sung by Neil Hannon, was used in the Doctor Who Christmas episode The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who).
[edit] References
- ^ Who soundtrack soon. BBC Doctor Who website. bbc.co.uk (2006-07-17). Retrieved on 2006-07-17.
- ^ Dr Who soundtrack coming to shops. CBBC news. bbc.co.uk (2006-10-11). Retrieved on 2006-10-14.
- ^ Silva Screen News. Silva Screen website. www.silvascreen.co.uk (2006-11-01). Retrieved on 2006-11-05.
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