Martin Phipps was born on 1 August 1968 and is a British composer who has worked on numerous film and television projects.
11 Facts About Martin Phipps
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Martin Phipps is the son of Sue Pears and Jack Phipps, an arts administrator who had previously founded a management agency, which acted for many leading musical figures.
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Martin Phipps scored Low Winter Sun for Channel 4, starring Mark Strong and Brian McCardie and Persuasion, the most recent ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, as well as Grow Your Own, a feature for Warp Films.
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Martin Phipps scored the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Andrew Davies.
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Martin Phipps was then commissioned to score the BBC's Oliver Twist adaptation, for which he was recognised with the Ivor Novello Award 2008 for Best Television Soundtrack.
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Martin Phipps then went on to write the music for the feature film Endgame, starring William Hurt, Derek Jacobi, Mark Strong, Jonny Lee Miller and Chiwetel Ejiofor, chronicling the breakdown of S African apartheid, directed by Pete Travis.
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In 2005, Martin Phipps wrote the score to the film Pierrepoint.
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Martin Phipps scored the British feature film, The Flying Scotsman, and The Line of Beauty.
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Martin Phipps co-wrote the score with Emily Barker for the BBC drama The Shadow Line.
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Martin Phipps composed the theme to the same year's Victoria, as well as incidental music of the early episodes.
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Martin Phipps composed the soundtrack for season 3, season 4, season 5 and season 6 of The Crown.