Debbie Wiseman, OBE was born on 10 May 1963 and is a British composer for film, television and the concert hall, known as a conductor and a radio and television presenter.
17 Facts About Debbie Wiseman
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Debbie Wiseman studied at Trinity College of Music Junior Department, and then piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama studying piano with James Gibb, and composition with Buxton Orr.
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Debbie Wiseman is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music.
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Debbie Wiseman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to the film industry, was promoted to Officer of the same Order for services to music in the 2018 Birthday Honours, and has been awarded Honorary Fellowships of Trinity College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Debbie Wiseman was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Music at the University of Sussex in 2015.
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Debbie Wiseman was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Music in 2020.
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Debbie Wiseman conducted the National Symphony Orchestra playing the music live to accompany screenings in Birmingham and London of two of those films, The Selfish Giant and The Nightingale and the Rose.
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In 2011 Debbie Wiseman presented a Radio 4 programme on the composer, Joseph Horowitz, and appeared on the panel of Your Desert Island Discs at Christmas with Bill Bailey and Jo Whiley, presented by Kirsty Young.
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Since 2011, Debbie Wiseman has been signed as a recording artist to Warner Classics, her first solo album for the label, Piano Stories, which featured piano solo performances by the composer of many of her scores, entered the UK Classical Artist Album Chart at number 10.
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Debbie Wiseman presented a Channel 4 series Backtracks, examining the role of music in film and television productions.
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Debbie Wiseman scored A Poet in New York, which was broadcast in 2014 on BBC Two.
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Debbie Wiseman is Classic FM's Composer in Residence and her first album commissioned by Classic FM, The Musical Zodiac, reached Number 2 in the UK Classical Chart in September 2016.
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Debbie Wiseman has composed new signature music for Viking Cruises and was honoured as Godmother to their new river ship, Viking Herja, in March 2017.
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Debbie Wiseman was voted the most popular living composer in Classic FM Hall of Fame 2022 with seven entries: Wolf Hall, Shakespeare and Hathaway, Wilde, The Musical Zodiac, The Mythos Suite, The Music of Kings and Queens, and The Glorious Garden reaching its highest ever position in the chart at number 4.
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Debbie Wiseman was the official composer and musical director of the Platinum Jubilee Celebration at Windsor in May 2022.
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Later that same year, a specially-commissioned track, Elizabeth Remembered, composed and conducted by Debbie Wiseman, was used by the BBC as the theme music for its coverage of the late Queen's funeral and associated events.
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In 2023, Wiseman released "Signature", a compilation album of her most popular works, performed live in concert by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Debbie.