13 Facts About Terry Oldfield

Terence Oldfield was born on 12 August 1949 and is an English composer, and brother to Sally and Mike Oldfield.

Terry Oldfield spent his childhood partly in Dublin and partly in Reading, Berkshire.

Terry Oldfield later attended Douai School a Benedictine monastery school and spent a few terms at the Oratory School in Woodcote, Oxfordshire.

Terry Oldfield left school at 16 to travel the world and worked as a roadie for various bands including The Byrds.

Mike later went on to record the highly successful Tubular Bells and Terry Oldfield played the flute in the live performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 25 June 1973.

Terry Oldfield appears on Mike's albums Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and extensively on Incantations.

Terry Oldfield recorded a piece of flute music which was used to accompany the last section of the course.

Terry Oldfield's career began in earnest when he was asked by the BBC to compose music for a series called Great Railway Journeys of the World.

Since then Terry Oldfield has composed music for over 50 film and TV productions, receiving two Emmy nominations for Land of the Tiger and Twilight of the Dreamtime and a BAFTA nomination for the BBC series Kingdom of the Ice Bear.

Terry Oldfield worked on Meerkats United, which in a National Television Poll was voted 'Best Wildlife Film Ever'.

Terry Oldfield had a relationship with New World Music, one of the world's leading 'World' music labels, for over 10 years and has a back catalogue of over 15 recordings.

In 2001, Terry Oldfield signed a multi-record contract with New Earth Records in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Terry Oldfield's work contains a wide range of ideas and influences and has sold over one million units worldwide.