19 Facts About Paul Englishby

Paul Englishby is a film and theatre composer, orchestrator, conductor and pianist.

Paul Englishby is best known for his Emmy Award-winning jazz score for David Hare's Page Eight, his orchestral score for the Oscar nominated An Education, his BAFTA nominated score for the BBC's Luther and his many theatre scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom Paul is an associated artist.

Paul Englishby was musically active by his teenage years, performing as a pianist in big bands and jazz ensembles as well as writing and composing his own works.

Paul Englishby studied at Goldsmiths' College and at the Royal Academy of Music, where he received the Charles Lucas Prize for Composition and the Arthur Hervey Scholarship, as well as receiving a BBC Sound on Film Commission.

In recent years, Paul Englishby has written the original scores for a number of films and television programmes.

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Paul Englishby is a prolific composer for the BBC, scoring all five series of the critically acclaimed drama Luther, starring Idris Elba, for which he received a BAFTA nomination.

Paul Englishby has scored two series of the hit series The Musketeers.

Paul Englishby won the ASCAP Award in 2009 for his film score to Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, directed by Bharat Nalluri.

Paul Englishby wrote the score for Lone Scherfig's Oscar nominated feature An Education, starring Carey Mulligan, and A Royal Night Out, starring Rupert Everett and Bel Powley.

Paul Englishby was music director and composer for the 2013 film Sunshine On Leith, featuring songs by The Proclaimers, and directed by Dexter Fletcher.

Paul Englishby has collaborated with world-class film directors, including Debbie Isitt on critically acclaimed Brit-flick Confetti, and on the film Ten Minutes Older featuring works from directors Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis and Jean-Luc Godard.

Paul Englishby's credits include The Last Clarinet for solo clarinet, orchestra and narrator in 1995, Byron for large orchestra and Weep No More for string orchestra.

Paul Englishby recently completed a large public arts commission entitled Fireworks, several pieces for choir, orchestra, chamber group and school children, in commemoration of the Combe Down Stone Mines Project in Bath.

Paul Englishby has worked on over twenty productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In 2013, Paul Englishby scored Peter Morgan's The Audience, starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II.

In 2014, Paul Englishby wrote the music for David Hare's Skylight, starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, which transferred to Broadway from the West End in 2015.

Paul Englishby has conducted on studio sessions and film scores both in the UK and abroad, as well as on recordings and broadcasts for radio and television.

Paul Englishby worked on the Universal movie Your Highness, starring Natalie Portman and James Franco, released in 2011.

Paul Englishby orchestrated and conducted Tony Banks's classical album Six: Pieces for Orchestra, released in 2012.