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
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