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Years active
  
1983–

Name
  
John Keane

Role
  
Film composer


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Occupation
  
Film and television composer

Awards
  
BAFTA – Short Film – 1986British Film Institute – Young Composer of the Year −1987

Education
  
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, National Film and Television School

Nominations
  
British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original Television Music

Music director
  
Hideous Kinky, Gunpowder - Treason & Plot, The Even Chance, Tales of the City, Tara Road

Similar
  
Andrew Grieve, Gillies MacKinnon, Billy MacKinnon, Russell Lewis, Armistead Maupin

John e keane music from far from the madding crowd 1998


John E. Keane is a British BAFTA and BFI Award-winning film and television composer. He has been nominated for two British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, for A Very British Coup in 1989 and Hornblower: The Even Chance in 1999.

Contents

Keane's many credits include the 1993 miniseries Tales of the City, the 1998 film Hideous Kinky and multiple instalments of Hornblower between 1998 and 2003.

John e keane music from chattahoochee 1989


Early years

Keane studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Edmund Rubbra, and piano with Geraldine Peppin. He went on to study sound recording and film music at the National Film and Television School. Here he scored numerous graduation films, and his successful career as a composer was launched in 1986 with his score for Careless Talk, winner of the BAFTA Short Film Award 1986. Keane quickly established himself in the Film and Television Music industry in 1987 when he scored The Kitchen Toto directed by Harry Hook. The film won the Tokyo Grand Prize, and Keane won a prize for Best Sound Track at the "Festival International du Film et de la Jeunesse". The same year he won the 1987 British Film Institute prize for Young Composer of the Year.

Film and TV

Keane's first television commission was for the highly acclaimed serial A Very British Coup for director Mick Jackson. The serial received many awards, including an International Emmy for Best Drama, 5 BAFTA Awards and a BAFTA Nomination for Best Music, Best Drama Series from Broadcasting Press Guild, and at the Banff Festival, Toronto. Since then Keane has written the music for a host of high-profile television drama, including Tales From The City, Hearts and Minds, Kavanagh QC, Far From The Madding Crowd, Wives and Daughters, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Anna Karenina, The Russian Bride, Gunpowder Treason & Plot, Mansfield Park starring Billie Piper, the Emmy Award-winning Hornblower and Heroes and Villains: "Shogun and Cortes".

Keane has written music for a number of award-winning documentary series, including Molly Dineen's BBC The Ark, winner of a BAFTA Award, and The House, about London's Royal Opera House. He has also written music for a number of feature films, including four films directed by Gilles McKinnon – Small Faces, Trojan Eddie, Hideous Kinky starring Kate Winslet, and Tara Road.

Recent credits include the BBC crime drama series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs, and Inspector George Gently, starring Martin Shaw.

Feature film

2005

  • Tara Road

    • 1998

  • Hideous Kinky

    • 1997

  • A Further Gesture

    • 1996

  • Letters From The East
  • Trojan Eddie
  • Small Faces

    • 1990

  • Windprints

    • 1989

  • Chattahoochee
  • Resurrected

    • 1987

  • The Kitchen Toto

    • 1986

  • Nanou

    • TV Films/Series

    2014

  • Inspector George Gently – Blue for Bluebird
  • Inspector George Gently – Gently Between The Lines

    • 2013

  • Case Histories

    • 2012

  • Inspector George Gently – Gently in the Cathedral
  • Inspector George Gently – The Lost Child

    • 2008

  • Sleep With Me
  • Gently's Last Case

    • 2007

  • Mansfield Park
  • Who Gets The Dog?
  • Inspector George Gently – Gently Go Man

    • 2006

  • Perfect Day (The Funeral)

    • 2005

  • Wallis & Edward
  • Uncle Adolf
  • Tom Brown's Schooldays

    • 2004

  • Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
  • The Brief
  • Sparkling Cyanide
  • A Line in the Sand

    • 2002

  • Bait
  • Night Flight

    • 2001

  • The Russian Bride
  • Hornblower (series 1,2,3)

    • 2000

  • Monsignor Renard (4 episodes)
  • The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
  • Anna Karenina

    • 1999

  • Kavanagh QC Series V
  • Pure Wickedness
  • Wives and Daughters (1 episode)

    • 1998

  • Far From The Madding Crowd
  • Kavanagh QC Series IV

    • 1997

  • Plotlands (6 part serial)
  • Stone Scissors Paper
  • Kavanagh QC Series III

    • 1996

  • Kavanagh QC Series II

    • 1995

  • Killing Me Softly
  • Mrs Hartley & the Growth Centre
  • I'll Be Watching You

    • 1993

  • Circle of Deceit
  • Tales of the City
  • Maigret (2 episodes)
  • Love and Reason (3 episodes)

    • 1992

  • Force of Duty
  • The Last of His Tribe
  • The Count of Solar
  • The Hummingbird Tree

    • 1991

  • The Gravy Train Goes East
  • Selling Hitler
  • One Man's War

    • 1990

  • Murder East Murder West
  • Stolen
  • The Gravy Train

    • 1988

  • Defrosting The Fridge
  • A Very British Coup
  • Leaving

    • 1985

  • Careless Talk

    • Documentaries

    2008

  • Heroes and Villains – Cortes
  • Heroes and Villains – Shogun

    • 2006

  • Wolf

    • 2003

  • Out of the Ashes

    • 2002

  • Princess To Queen

    • 2001

  • The English Civil War

    • 1996

  • The House

    • 1994

  • True Brits: The Foreign Office

    • 1993

  • English Women's Garden
  • The Ark

    • 1991

  • Billy – A Violent Mind

    • 1989

  • EastEnd GP's
  • Landshapes

    • 1986

  • Movie Masterclass

    • References

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