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 scored the horror feature The Dark for Impact Pictures/Universal/Constantin, True North for Ariel and BBC Films, 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 (Series 1 & 2), for Ecosse Films and is currently scoring the third series; and Ashes To Ashes, the highly anticipated follow up series to the wildly successful first outing on the BBC, as well as Life On Mars, for which Ed also scored and wrote the title music for both series 1 and 2. Ed also scored Survivors, a remake of the 70's BBC drama which focuses on the world in the aftermath of a devastating virus that wipes out most of the world's population, and is currently scoring the second series. He recently completed scoring Yellowstone for BBC2, a series which explores the major ecosystems in the Yellow Stone National Park, for which he created a wildly evocative and epic soundtrack. Ed also received the RTS Craft and Design Award 2009 for Best Original Score for Yellowstone. Ed most recently completed scoring Garrow's Law for Shed Media Scotland.

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
It’s 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

Television Credits

GARROW'S LAW

Twenty Twenty/Shed Media Scotland/BBC

Director: Peter Lydon

Producer: Dominic Barlow

Starring: Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong, Lyndsey Marshal

YELLOWSTONE
BBC2
Executive Producer: Mike Gunton
Series Producer: Andrew Murray

*RTS Craft & Design Award 2009: Best Original Score*

*IFMCA Nomination 2009: Best Original Score for Television*

SURVIVORS (Series 1 & 2)
BBC
Director: John Alexander
Executive Producers: Susan Hogg, Adrian Hodges
Producer: Hugh Warren
Starring: Max Beesley, Julie Graham, Freema Agyeman

ASHES TO ASHES

Series 1, 2 & 3
Kudos / BBC

Directors: Johnny Campbell/Billie Eltringham/Catherine Morshead

Porducer: Beth Willis

MISTRESSES

Series 1, 2 & 3
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

MURPHY’S 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.