John Lunn

Recently nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Score for his wonderful music to BBC's 2008 Dickens adaptation, Little Dorrit, John Lunn’s music possesses a wonderfully unique voice that spans the spectrum of musical style. Classically trained yet contemporary in attitude, he combines a highly intelligent and sensitive approach, with a sound that always finds the emotional core. Along with the highest production values, and a continual desire to discover new colours and sounds, it is not hard to see why John is continuously busy.

For film, John scored the new IMAX film Giant Screen Bugs, narrated by Dame Judi Dench for Principal Films. Other film credits include the FilmFour/Shane Meadows film Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Kathy Burke, Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans), Get Real, directed by Simon Shore, winner of the Audience Award, Edinburgh and Dinard International Festivals, and The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, directed by Po Chih Leong for Zenith Films. He also scored the IMAX film, Legend of the Loch for Director Mike Slee.

John’s TV credits range from the BBC’s flagship productions of Cambridge Spies, Lorna Doone, Madame Bovary (directed by Tim Fywell) and Murder Rooms, to the Channel Four/Company series North Square, World Productions 12 part series Outlaws, Scottish Television’s thriller Sirens, and the Ska Films/Ginger production, Lock Stock and.... His score to Getting Hurt, the BBC Screen Two Film, won the Royal Television Society’s award for Best Original Music. His music to Bad Blood (Carlton) was also nominated for an Ivor Novello Award. John scored the critically acclaimed BBC series Bleak House (RTS Awards 2006 - nomination for Best Score), Hotel Babylon for Carnival Films / BBC (for which he was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award), and the Granada biopic based on the moors murderers, See No Evil, as well as Sorted for the BBC. He scored The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard for the BBC, starring Jane Horrocks, and the Bafta award winning Victoria Wood penned drama, Housewife 49 for ITV, along with Frankenstein for Impossible Pictures, and The Shadow In The North for the BBC. He went on to score Torn for Jeremy Gwilt and TXTV, series 2 of the acclaimed Jimmy McGovern scripted, The Street for Granada, and has recently completed Hotel Babylon (Series 4) for Carnival/BBC. He recently completed scoring Criminal Justice an RTS Award Winner 2008 for Best Original Score for the BBC, Harley Street for Carnival Productions/ITV1, and very recently scored the 14 part Andrew Davies' Dickens adaptation Little Dorrit, for the BBC (BAFTA Craft Nomination 2009: Best Original Score, Emmy Nominated 2009: Outstanding Original Score, RTS Award 2008: Best Original Score). John recently completed scoring Identity, a 6 part thriller for ITV, Material Girl for Carnival/BBC, and a one off special Xmas adaptation of Henry James's chilling The Turn Of The Screw for the BBC. Having just finished scoring Mob Films adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal for Sky 1, he is now working on the soundtrack for BBC's upcoming tense drama by Company Pictures, The Silence, and is then going on to score the Julian Fellowes' scripted Downton Abbey for ITV.

Other major credits include the music for Second Sight, directed by Charles Beeson for 20/20 TV/BBC, the original series of 2000 Acres of Sky as well as Hamish MacBeth for BBC/Zenith and the Carlton/Zenith series Bodyguards. For his score to Back Up, The Guardian wrote ‘..cracking stuff, pure Bernard Hermann, and more sheer menace than anything you’ve heard...’. He wrote the music for Ghostbusters of East Finchley (BBC2), a jazz score for the YTV/Zenith series Finney (directed by David Hayman), and a largely period score for the Last Machine, a five part documentary drama for BBC/Illumination, presented by Terry Gilliam.

John’s earlier credits include Cormorant, a BBC Screen Two Film starring Ralph Fiennes, the Prairie Pictures feature The Life Of Stuff, directed by Simon Donald and produced by Linda Myles, The Gift, a BBC Screenplay production, Beatrix, a BBC drama starring Helena Bonham-Carter; Second Thoughts, written by Anthony Minghella and starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones; and After The Dance for the BBC’s Performance series.

Amongst John’s classical works, his violin concerto was premiered by Clio Gould and the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last year and his two operas, Misper and Zoe (filmed and broadcast by Channel 4 in 2001) were written for Glydenbourne. In 1998 he wrote the opera Mathematics Of a Kiss with Anthony Minghella and Orlando Gough for the English National Opera. In 2005 John was commissioned by Glynedbourne Opera to write his latest opera Tangier Tattoo to be directed by Stephen Langridge.

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Feature Films

GIANT SCREEN BUGS (IMAX FILM)
Principal Films
Director: Mike Slee
Narrator: Dame Judi Dench

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS
FilmFour
Starring: Kathy Burke, Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans
Director: Shane Meadows

WISDOM OF CROCODILES
Zenith Entertainment
Director: Po Chih Leong

BABYMOTHER
Formation Films/FilmFour
Director: Julian Henriques

GET REAL
Graphite Films/Paramount Classics
Director: Simon Shore

THE LIFE OF STUFF
Prairie Pictures/BBC Films
Director: Simon Donald

GETTING HURT
BBC Screen Two
Director: Ben Bolt

LEGEND OF THE LOCH
IMAX/Principal Films/Large Format
Director: Mike Slee

THE CORMORANT
BBC Screen Two
Director: Peter Markham

THE GIFT
BBC1 Screenplay
Director: Sandy Johnson

AFTER THE DANCE
BBC Performance
Director: Stuart Burge

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Music Consultant
Director: Mike Newell

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Television

DOWNTON ABBEY

Carnival Films

Directors: Brian Percival, Ben Bolt

Producers: Liz Trubridge, Nigel Marchant

Executive Producer: Gareth Neame

Writer: Julian Fellowes

Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith

THE SILENCE

Company Pictures

Director: Dearbhla Walsh

Producer: Eleanor Greene

Executive Producer: George Faber, Charles Pattinson

GOING POSTAL

Sky1 / Mob Films

Director: Jon Jones

Producer: Sue De Beauvoir

Executive Producers: Vadim Jean, Ian Sharples, Rod Brown

Starring: David Suchet, Charles Dance, Andrew Sachs, Steve Pemberton, Tamsin Greig

LITTLE DORRIT
BBC
Directors: Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh
Producers: Lisa Osborne, Anne Pivcevic

Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Andy Serkis, Mackenzie Crook, Freema Agyeman, Emma Pierson

*BAFTA Craft Nomination 2009: Best Original TV Music*

*Emmy Nominated 2009: Outstanding Original Score*

*RTS Award 2008: Best Original Score*

IDENTITY

ITV

Director: Brendan Maher

Producer: Lachlan MacKinnon

Executive Producer: Kate Bartlett

Starring: Aidan Gillen, Keeley Hawes

MATERIAL GIRL

Carnival/BBC

Directors: Cilla Ware, Sarah O'Gorman, Philip John

Producer: Chrissy Skinns

Starring: Dervla Kirwan

HARLEY STREET
Carnival/ITV1

Director: Paul Whittington
Producer: Joy Spink

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Tiger Aspect/BBC

Directors: Otto Bathurst, Luke Watson

Producer: Pier Wilkie
Starring: Ben Wishaw, Pete Postlethwaite
*RTS Award Winner 2008: Best Original Score*

HOTEL BABYLON (Series 3 & 4)

Carnival/BBC

Directors: Alrick Riley, Ian B Macdonald
Producer: Chris Aird

THE STREET (Series II)
Granada Television
Director: John Chapman

Producers: David Blair, Terry McDonagh

THE SHADOW IN THE NORTH

BBC / NOVA-WHBH BOSTON

Director: John Alexander

Producer: Kate Bartlett

FRANKENSTEIN
Impossible Pictures
Director: Jed Mercurio

Producer: Hugh Warren

TORN
TXTV
Director: Sarah Harding
Producer: Jeremy Gwilt

HOUSEWIFE 49
ITV
Director: Gavin Millar
Producer: Piers Wenger

THE AMAZING MRS. PRITCHARD
BBC
Directors: Declan Lowney, Simon Curtis, Katherine Morshead
Producer: Alison Jackson
Starring: Jane Horrocks

*RTS Award 2007: Best Original Theme Music*

SORTED
BBC
Director: Ian Macdonald, Marc Jobst
Producer: Steve Lightfoot

COLD BLOOD
ITV
Director: Stuart Orme
Producer: Ian White

SEE NO EVIL
Granada
Director: Chris Menaul
Producer: Lisa Gilchrist

HOTEL BABYLON (Series 1 & 2)
BBC/Carnival
Directors: Alrick Riley, Iain B. MacDonald
Executive Producer: Gareth Neame
Producer: Christopher Aird

BLEAK HOUSE                                                        
BBC
Directors: Justin Chadwick, Susannah White
Producer: Nigel Stafford-Clark
*RTS Award Nomination 2006: Best Original Score*

20,000 STREETS UNDER THE SKY
BBC
Director: Simon Curtis
Producer: Kate Harwood

HEARTLESS
Ecosse Films
Director: Nick Laughland
Producer: Jeremy Gwilt

PLANESPOTTING
Granada
Director: Chr4is Menaul
Producer: Jeff Pope, Francis Hopkinson

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON
Ecosse Films
Director: Nick Laughland
Producer: Jeremy Gwilt

OUTLAWS
World Productions/BBC
Directors: John Alexander, Harry Bradbeer, Richard Laxton
Producer: Victoria Fea

BODIES (Series 1 & 2)
Hat Trick Productions/BBC
Director: Sallie Aprahamian, John Strickland, Richard Laxton
Producer: Jed Mercurio

THE MURDER ROOM (Series 1 & 2)
BBC
Director: Diamuid Lawrence
Producer: Richard Broke

MURDER IN SUBURBIA
Carlton
Director: Ed Bennett
Producer: Joy Spink

AMNESIA
Ecosse Films
Director: Nick Laughland
Producer: Jeremy Gwilt

HEAR THE SILENCE
Zenith/Channel 5
Director: Tim Fywell
Producer: Adrian Bate

CAMBRIDGE SPIES
BBC 1
Director: Tim Fyfll
Producer: Mark Chivas

CARLA
ITV
Producer: Alison Jackson, Diamuid Lawrence

WALL OF SILENCE
Granada
Director: Chris Menaul
Producer: Saurabh Kakkar

BLUE MURDER
Granada
Director: Paul Wroblewski
Producer: Jane MacNaught

STATE OF MIND
ITV/Monogram
Director: Chris Menaul
Producer: Dave Edwards, Eileen Quinn

AUF WEIDERSEHEN PET
BBC 1
Director: Paul Seed
Producer: Joy Spink

SIRENS
Scottish TV
Director: Nick Laughland

MURDER ROOMS
BBC
Director: Tim Fywell, Paul Marcus, Simon Langton

LORNA DOONE
BBC
Director: Mike Barker

2000 ACRES OF SKY
BBC/Zenith
Director: Rob Knight

NORTH SQUARE
Channel Four/Company TV
Director: Tim Fywell
Producer: Jonathan Young

LOCK STOCK AND...
Ska/Ginger
Director: David Thacker

MADAME BOVARY
BBC
Director: Tim Fywell

SECOND SIGHT 20/20
BBC
Director: Charles Beeson

BAD BLOOD
Carlton
Director: Tim Fywell

HAMISH MACBETH
Zenith/BBC
Director: Nick Renton, Jonas Grimas, Mandie Fletcher

BACK UP
BBC
Director: Jan Sargent, Douglas Mackinnon, Bob Blagden

BODYGUARDS
Zenith/Carlton
Directors: Chris King, Mary McMurray, Ken Grieve

FINNEY
Zenith/YorkshireTV
Director: David Hayman

THE LAST MACHINE
BBC
Director: Terry Gilliam

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