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Name
  
Richard Mitchell

Role
  
Film composer

Music group
  
The Capitols


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Albums
  
Dance the Cool Jerk, Mexico, Wonderland, We Got A Thing That's In The Groove, Wake Up, The Capitols

Awards
  
Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics

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Richard G Mitchell is an English composer of music primarily for movies and television.

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Mitchell was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Preston, Lancashire. He attended Hutton Grammar School and later St Martins School of Art in the late 1970s where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Was awarded an Ivor Novello Award and is best known for scoring the movies: To Kill a King, Grand Theft Parsons, A Good Woman and the 1996 BBC period TV series The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Original Scores

Mitchell is an English composer well known for his writing and arranging for choir and orchestra, though his compositions span a very wide range of styles varying from classical to more contemporary electronic genres such as drum and bass and trip hop. His versatility is displayed in his pedal steel guitar-based score for Grand Theft Parsons, which was highly praised at the 2004 Sundance Festival. He also has a reputation for composing world music scores such as the Tibetan score for Nick Gray's Escape from Tibet

His original score for To Kill a King in 2004 continued his successful relationship with director Mike Barker, for whom he scored A Good Woman (film) in 2005, and later the Sea Wolf (miniseries)' in 2008, followed by Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)'.

His score for the film Trial by Fire won an Ivor Novello Award in 2000 and the BBC period drama The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996 miniseries) won Best Score at the Royal Television Society Awards in 1998.

In 2005, Mitchell composed the music for The Call of the Toad, written by Günter Grass and directed by Robert Glinskî. The score was recorded with the Polish Symphony Orchestra, and was nominated for a Polish Academy Award.

Other commissions

Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Filmography

2012

  • Moby Dick

    • 2006

  • Almost Heaven

    • 2005

  • The Call of the Toad
  • A Good Woman

    • 2004

  • Tempesta

    • 2003

  • Grand Theft Parsons

    • 2002

  • To Kill a King

    • 2000

  • Children of the Holocaust

    • 1998

  • La Coupe de la Gloire (Official World Cup Movie)

    • 1997

  • Basil

    • 1992

  • The Bridge

    • 1986

  • Born American

    • 1983

  • Rush Hour

    • 1980

  • Beastly Treatment

    • Original Soundtrack Albums

    2012

  • Moby Dick

    • 2009

  • Sea Wolf

    • 2006

  • A Good Woman

    • 2003

  • To Kill a King
  • Grand Theft Parsons

    • 2001

  • The Glass

    • 1998

  • Invasion: Earth

    • 1996

  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    • 1992

  • The Bridge

    • Television Work

    2009

  • Sea Wolf

    • 2006

  • Perfect Day: The Millennium

    • 2005

  • How to Have a Good Death
  • Class of '76
  • The Stepfather

    • 2002

  • Helen West

    • 2001

  • The Glass
  • True Originals ("Latika Rana")

    • 2000

  • Brits Abroad
  • Where There's Smoke

    • 1999

  • Trial by Fire
  • Trauma Team
  • QED

    • 1998

  • Get Real
  • Invasion: Earth

    • 1997

  • Coast to Coast
  • Escape From Tibet
  • Bridget Jones Diary
  • Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

    • 1996

  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (3 episodes)
  • Euro 96 Opening Ceremony

    • 1995

  • Harry
  • SuperMax (First Tuesday)
  • Stolen Brides (Network First)
  • Scotland Yard

    • 1994

  • Brat Pack

    • 1990

  • Cluedo
  • Masterchef

    • 1989

  • War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

    • 1988

  • Across the Lake
  • Seoul Olympic Theme

    • 1987

  • Worlds Beyond
  • Truckers

    • 1986

  • In The Footsteps Of Scott

    • Awards

  • Won Ivor Novello Award for "Trial By Fire" (2000)
  • Nominated Polish Academy Award for "The Call of the Toad" (2005)
  • Nominated Royal Television Society Award for "The Glass" (2001)
  • Won Royal Television Society Award for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Won The New York Film and TV Festival best original score for "Rush Hour" (1985)

    • References

    Richard G. Mitchell Wikipedia
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