ABOUT
James is a UK-based music composer film & TV, as well as a skilled drummer, sound editor/mixer, orchestrator, arranger and producer.
He has experience composing music for documentaries, short independent films, theatre productions, iOS games, theme music and adverts. In addition to his own individual work, James also co-founded Undercurrent Music Productions in 2020 with fellow composer Jessie van den Boorn, regularly co-composing music together for use in various short films and for global production companies.
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His music can be heard on programmes broadcast by Netflix, BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 5, Disney+, Discovery+ and Channel 4, in addition to multiple global film festivals. In addition to commissioned work, James has composed for a variety of production music libraries, including ALIBI Music, No Sheet Music and All Sorts of Music.
EDUCATION
James completed his MA in Composition of Music for Film and Television at the University of Bristol in 2017, where he received a distinction having been tutored by esteemed film and TV composers Martin Kiszko, William Goodchild and Richard Blackford. He also graduated from the University of Manchester (2012-15) with a First Class degree in Music, where he studied electroacoustic and instrumental composition, film composition, sound design and solo performance.