Edmund Butt
A highly experienced composer, performer and producer, Ed was born in Hampton in 1968. He became a chorister at Hampton Court Palace at six and was later appointed head chorister at Windsor Castle where he remained until the age of thirteen. He went on to win a music scholarship to Charterhouse School and subsequently a double music scholarship (violin & piano) to the Royal College of Music, gaining a first class performers degree as well as a Countess of Munster Scholarship to study in New York & Japan.
At 18, Ed became the youngest player in the London Philharmonic Orchestra and went on to play with the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philharmonia & the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Whilst performing with these world-class orchestras, Ed also worked as a session musician and after playing on the scores to Basic Instinct & The English Patient, he realised he wanted a change in direction; he wanted to write music to picture.
This new journey started by orchestrating for several Hollywood composers on films such as Desperate Measures, Dark City, Merlin & Dangerous Beauty as well as acting as musical director for artists such as Madonna, Puff Daddy and George Martin.
Since then Ed has gone on to write music for many notable film and television dramas (see credits) and is now one of the most versatile composers in this country, equally at home with contemporary, symphonic, and intimate scores. Some of his best work has combined all these elements, creating a thrilling and uniquely dramatic style.
Ed
wrote a dark, contemporary and epic score to the feature Revelation
for Romulus Films and following on from this, is being talked about
as one of the most innovative and influential composers of his generation.
He has recently finished writing the scores to The Dark
for Impact Pictures/Universal/Constantin and True North
for Ariel and BBC Films. He is currently scoring The Waiting
Room for Bright Pictures starring Anne Marie Duff, and Diary
Of A Nobody, written by Andrew Davies for Clerkenwell Films/BBC
and starring Hugh Bonneville.
Ed recently scored Mistresses for Ecosse
Films, and Ashes to Ashes, the highly
anticipated follow up series to the wildly successful BBC series,
Life on Mars for which Ed also scored
and wrote the title music for both series 1 and 2.
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Film Credits
THE WAITING ROOM
Bright Pictures
Director: Roger Goldby
Producer: Sarah Sulick
Starring: Anne Marie Duff, Rupert Graves, Ralph Little
TRUE NORTH
Ariel Films/BBC Films
Director: Steve Hudson
Producers: Sonja Ewers, David Thompson, David Collins
THE DARK
Impact Pictures/Miramax/Constantin
Director: John Fawcett
Producer: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson
REVELATION
Romulus Films
Director: Stuart Urban
Producer: Jonathan Woolf
CLUB LAMONDE
Screen Production Associates
Director: Simon Rumley
Producer: Piers Jackson
DEAD BOLT DEAD
Its All Right Ma Productions
Director: James Rogan
Producer: Paul de Villiers
24 HOURS IN LONDON
One World Films
Director: Alexander Finbow
Producer: Fergal McGrath
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
A.K.A. Pizazz
Director/Co-Producer: Mario Cavalli
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Television
Credits
ASHES TO ASHES
Kudos / BBC
Directors:
Johnny Campbell/Billie Eltringham/Catherine Morshead
Porducer:
Beth Willis
MISTRESSES
BBC / Ecosse
Director: S.J. Clarkson / Peter Hoar
Producer: Lowri Glain
DIARY OF A NOBODY
Clerkenwell Films
Director: Susannah White
Producers: Murray Ferguson
Starring Hugh Bonneville.
BON VOYAGE
Box TV/ITV
Director: John Fawcett
Producer: Jake Lushington
LOSING IT
Clerkenwell Films/ITV
Director: Ben Bolt
Producer: Murray Ferguson
LIFE ON MARS
Series 1 & 2
Kudos/BBC
Directors: Bharat Nalluri, John McKay
Producer: Claire Parker
SECRET SMILE
Granada
Director: Chris Menaul
Producer: Jake Lushington
AFTERLIFE
Series 1 & 2
Clerkenwell Films/ITV
Directors: Maurice Phillips, Charles Beeson,
Martyn Friend
Producers: Murray Ferguson, John Hannah
SEA OF SOULS
Series 2 & 3
BBC/Sony Television
Director: Maurice Phillipps
Producer: Stephen Garwood
WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR
BBC
Director: John Jones
Producer: Pier Wilkie
INDIAN DREAM
Red Productions/BBC
Director: Roger Goldy
Producer: Eleanor Green
SILENT TREATMENT
H3O Productions/Channel 4
Director: Peter Lydon
ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME
BBC1 Drama
Director: Alrick Riley
Producer: Ewan Marshall
TRUST
Box TV/BBC
Directors: John Strickland, Phillipa Langdale, Nick Laughland
Producer: Jake Lushington
MURPHYS LAW
Series 1,2 & 3
Tiger Aspect/BBC
Directors: Peter Lydon, Menhaj Hudz, Maurice Phillips
Producer: Sanne Wohlenberg
JEFFREY ARCHER THE TRUTH
Hat Trick/BBC
Director: Guy Jenkin
Producer: Chrissy Skins
AMERICAN EMBASSY
Fox TV
US Series
Exec Producer: Danny DeVito
STRETFORD WIVES
BBC
Director: Peter Webber
Producer: Kate Bartlett
MEN ONLY
World Productions/Channel 4
Director: Peter Webber
Producer: Jake Lushington
DO OR DIE
Sky/Southern Star/Warner Sisters
Director: Rowan Woods
Producer: Lavinia Warner
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
Channel 4
Director: Tony Mitchell
Producer: Ben Goold
WITHOUT YOU
BBC
Director: Julian Simpson
Producer: Paul Rutman
MENACE
Greenlit Productions/Channel 5
Director: Bill Eagles
Producer: Gill Green
RESIDENTS
BBC
Director: Peter Lydon, Richard Heslop
Producer: Pier Wilkie
TABLE 12
World Productions
Various Directors
Producer: Jake Lushington
HEADLESS
Sanctuary Films/Channel 5
Director: Tony McHale
Producer: Matthew Kuipers
Numerous commissions from BSkyB including Music for the Oscars (Sky Premiere)
& Millennium Movies, a 15 part series for Richard Attenborough, as
well as music for chatshows, idents, adverts (Sky Digital), and the Sky
Pictures Film Logo. He also scored the symphonic ident for Walt Disney
International.
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Arranging/Music Director
MADONNA
Numerous tours, including MD for Brixton Academy Concert &
MTV Awards in Milan
PUFF DADDY
MTV & Brit Awards
THE CORRS
Brit Awards
SIR GEORGE MARTIN
Orchestral leader for In My Life album
Orchestration for film
MERLIN
Hallmark Entertainment
A SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER
Merchant Ivory
DESPERATE MEASURES
Tri Star Pictures
DARK CITY
New Line Films
THE COURTESAN
Warner/Regency
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