Edmund Butt - Composer Profile

Winner of the 2011 Royal Television Society Award for Best Television Score for Garrow’s Law and nominated for 2012 Royal Television Society Award for Best Original Title Theme for Without You , Ed is renowned for his artful command of melody and harmony which combines to create a thrilling and unique dramatic style. He has written music for many notable film and television dramas, equally at home with contemporary, symphonic and intimate scores. Possessing a powerful command of compositional technique to wonderfully evoke the characters, narrative and form at the centre of each given piece, he combines an unerring 'cool' with a genuine musical virtuosity.

Ed most recently completed the music for the BBC’s Zombie-drama In The Flesh, and Series Two of the hugely popular The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher. He is currently scoring An Adventure In Time And Space, a dramatic retelling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963; commissioned to mark the 50th Anniversary of the conception of the groundbreaking and much loved programme. Previously, Ed scored ABC America's international primetime series, Combat Hospital, Mistresses (Series 1 & 2) for Ecosse Films, and is arguably most noted for his dynamic and driven scores for Ashes To Ashes, the highly anticipated follow up series to the BBC's wildly successful Life On Mars series 1 and 2, which he also scored to much critical acclaim. Ed scored Survivors (Series 1 & 2), a remake of the classic and post-apocalyptic 1970's BBC drama. He was then asked to score Yellowstone for BBC2, a series exploring the major ecosystems in the Yellowstone National Park, for which he created a wildly evocative and epic soundtrack that went on to win a Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award 2009 for Best Original Score. Edmund most recently completed the music for Come Rain Come Shine, starring Alison Steadman for ITV, and the tense thriller Case Sensitive (Point Of Rescue) starring Olivia Williams, for Hat Trick Productions.

Ed composed a dark, contemporary and epic score to the feature Revelation for Romulus Films and following on from this, was 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.

A highly experienced composer, performer and producer, Ed has always lived and breathed music. His ambition from day one has been to write score for film. He went from chorister at Hampton Court Palace at six to head chorister at Windsor Castle, which lead to him winning a music scholarship to Charterhouse School and subsequently a double music scholarship (violin & piano) at 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. He then 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 played on the scores to Basic Instinct & The English Patient and began to realise his life long ambition of working in film score. He then began orchestrating for several Hollywood composers on films such as Desperate Measures, Dark City, Merlin & Dangerous Beauty whilst at the same time enjoying parallel successes as musical director for such artists as, Madonna, Puff Daddy and George Martin.

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

AN ADVENTURE IN TIME AND SPACE	BBC Directors: Terry McDonough Producer: Matt Strevens Starring: Brian Cox, David Bradley, Leslie Manville, Reece Shearsmith
IN THE FLESH	BBC Directors: Johnny Campbell Producer: Ann Harrison Baxter
THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER	Hat Trick Productions (Series II) Directors: Producer: Rob Bullock
LEAVING	Red Productions Director: Gaby Dellal Producer: Juliet Charlesworth Starring: Helen McRory, Callum Turner
COMBAT HOSPITAL	Sienna Films, Artists Studio, Lookout Point Directors: Chris Menaul, Ian B Macdonald, Stephen Reynolds, Helen Shaver, Paul Unwin Producer: Michael J Maschio Starring: Luke Mably, Elias Koteas
WITHOUT YOU	Sally Head Productions / ITV Director: Tim Fywell Producer: Nigel Marchant Starring: Anna Friel	Nominated for RTS Craft Award for Best Original Title Theme 2012
CASE SENSITIVE	Hat Trick / ITV Director: Charles Martin / John Strickland Producer: Chris Hall, Rob Bullock Starring: Olivia Williams, Darren Boyd, Rupert Graves
COME RAIN COME SHINE	ITV Director: David Drury Producer: Jeff Pope Starring: Alison Steadman, Kelly Bright
GARROW'S LAW	Twenty Twenty/Shed Media Scotland/BBC Director: Peter Lydon Producer: Dominic Barlow Starring: Andrew Buchan, Alun Armstrong, Lyndsey Marshal	Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award 2011: Best Original Score
YELLOWSTONE	BC2 Executive Producer: Mike Gunton Series Producer: Andrew Murray	*Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award 2009: Best Original Score* *IFMCA Nomination 2009: Best Original Score for Television* *Broadcast Nomination 2009: Best TV Score*
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
TABLE 12	World Productions Various Directors Producer: Jake Lushington
HEADLESS	Sanctuary Films/Channel 5 Director: Tony McHale Producer: Matthew Kuipers
RESIDENTS	BBC Director: Peter Lydon, Richard Heslop Producer: Pier Wilkie

Commissions

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.

Arranging - Music Director

MADONNA	Numerous tours, including MD for Brixton Academy Concert and 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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