Ruth Barrett
Ruth
studied composition at The Royal Academy of Music and read music
at Cambridge University. She started her career composing for theatre
and commercials before setting up a music production company, Rubykon,
with composer/ engineer Ruskin Williamson. Between them, they have
scored numerous documentaries, ad campaigns and short films.
During 2005-6 she worked extensively with RTS and Ivor Novello award-winning
composer Martin Phipps, writing additional music cues for the BBC
adaptations, The Virgin Queen and The
Line of Beauty, and then the feature films Pierrepoint
and The Flying Scotsman.
She
went on to score the television dramas What We Did On
Our Holiday, starring Pauline Collins, and True
Dare Kiss, a six part series for BBC1 starring Paul
McGann, alongside writing additional cues for the BBC dramas Oliver
Twist (winner of Ivor Novello award 2008) and the
Emmy nominated, Sense and Sensibility.
She
has scored the feature length BBC4 drama Hancock and
Joan, starring Ken Stott and Maxine Peake and recently
completed Whitechapel, a new three part
thriller for ITV about Jack the Ripper.
She
recently completed scoring Wuthering Heights,
a two-part Mammoth Screen adaptation for ITV, and The
Take, a Company Pictures adaptation of Martina Cole's
novel for Sky. She has just completed scoring Married
Single Other for Left Bank Pictures, and the second
series of Wallander, the Kenneth Brannagh
led Swedish detective piece based on the Henning Mankell novels,
also for Left Bank Pictures. She has also provided additional score
for Cutting Edge's Harry Brown, and Daybreak
Picture's Endgame, a film which dramatises
the breakdown of apartheid in South Africa, directed by Pete Travis.
Ruth is currently scoring new ITV drama Bouquet Of Barbed
Wire for Mammoth Screen, directed by Ashley Pearce.
FEATURE FILM
HARRY BROWN (additional
music)
Cutting Edge/Marv Films
Director: Daniel Barber
Producers: Keith Bell, Kris
Thykier, Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Michael Caine
ENDGAME
(additional music/programming)
Daybreak Pictures
Director: Pete Travis
Producer: Hal Vogel
Starring: Mark Strong,
William Hurt, Johnny Lee Miller, Derek Jacobi, Chiwitel Ejiofor
INKHEART
(programming / assisting)
Composer – Javier Navarette
Director – Iain Softley
THE FLYING
SCOTSMAN (additional music/ programming)
Director: Douglas Mackinnon
Producer: Sara Giles/ Peter Broughan / Peter Gallagher
PIERREPOINT (additional
music/ arranging)
Director: Adrian Shergold
Producer: Christine Langan
TELEVISION DRAMA
BOUQUET OF
BARBED WIRE
Mammoth Screen / ITV
Director: Ashley Pearce
Producer: Kate McKerrell
WALLANDER
(Series 2)
Left Bank Pictures
Directors: Hettie Macdonald,
Andy Wilson
Producer: Sanne Wohlenberg
MARRIED SINGLE
OTHER
Left Bank Pictures
Directors: Declan Lowney,
Charles Martin
Producer: Radford Neville
THE TAKE
Company Pictures
Director: David Drury
Producer: Willow Grylls
WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
2 x 90’ / Mammoth Screen / ITV
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Producer: Radford Neville
WHITECHAPEL
3 x 60’ / Carnival Films / ITV
Director: SJ Clarkson
Producer: Marcus Wilson
HANCOCK AND
JOAN
1 x 90’ / World Productions / BBC4
Director: Richard Laxton
Producer: Simon Heath
TRUE DARE
KISS
6 x 60’ / BBC / BBC1
Directors: Jeremy Webb / Declan O’Dwyer
Producer: Marcus Wilson
OLIVER TWIST
(additional music / co-credit ep5-Martin Phipps)
5 x 30’ / BBC
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Producer: Sarah Brown
CLAPHAM JUNCTION
(co-credit – Martin Phipps)
1 x 100’ / Darlow Smithson / C4
Director: Adrian Shergold
Producer: Elinor Day
A VERY BRITISH
SEX SCANDAL (additional music/ arranging)
1 x 90’ / Blast Films / C4
Director: Patrick Reams
SENSE AND
SENSIBILITY
3 x 60' / BBC
Director: John Alexander
Producer: Anne Pivcevik
WHAT WE DID
ON OUR HOLIDAY
1 x 120' / Granada / ITV
Director: Jeremy Webb
Producer: Chris Carey
BEATING DEATH
1 x 90' / Wall to Wall / C4 / Discovery
Director: Patrick Reams
Producer: Simon Chinn
THE GREY MAN
1 x 45' / Leopardrama / BBC1
Director: Declan O'Dwyer
Producer: Amanda Jenks
THE LINE OF
BEAUTY (additional music)
1 x 60' / Ep3 / BBC2
Director: Saul Dibb
Producer: Kate Lewis
THE VIRGIN
QUEEN (additional music)
2 x 60' / Eps 3-4 / BBC1
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Producer: Paul Rutman
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