John Lunn
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 of drama. 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. He recently completed Torn for
Jeremy Gwilt and TXTV, series 2 of the acclaimed Jimmy McGovern
scripted The Street for Granada, and Hotel
Babylon (series 3) for Carnival/BBC. He is currently
scoring Criminal Justice for the BBC,
Harley Street for Carnival Productions/ITV1,
and will soon start scoring Little Dorrit
for the BBC.
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 byClio 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
LITTLE
DORRIT
BBC
Directors: Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh
Producers: Lisa Osborne, Anne Pivcevic
Starring:
Matthew MacFadyen, Andy Serkis, Mackenzie Crook, Freema Agyeman,
Emma Pierson
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
HOTEL BABYLON (Series III)
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
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
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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