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Barrington Pheloung

Born in Sydney Australia, Barrington Pheloung first became involved in music at the age of six when he was given his first guitar. Since then his chosen career has extended into all areas of the music industry.

A busy and prolific composer, Barrington has written numerous film scores across all genres. Recent productions include Sharon Maguire’s Incendiary (starring Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams) for FilmFour and Capitol Films and Anand Tucker’s And When Did You Last See Your Father? (starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent) for Number 9 Films and FilmFour. Barrington also collaborated with Tucker on Disney’s dysfunctional romantic comedy Shopgirl (starring by Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman) for Hyde Park Entertainment.

“Every film I have made in the last decade has been scored by Barrington so now I already hear the sound of his music when I am shooting which is incredibly helpful and inspiring. I hope we’re working together until we are 85!” - Anand Tucker (Director)

"Barrington's score for "Shopgirl" added such a lush layer on top of our film. His compositions are simultaneously thought-provoking and incredibly emotional. Given that our movie was about the complications and comfort of love, it was essential that our score capture the myriad nuances of that - all while subtly building to a powerfully moving resolution. Barrington gave us all that and more." - Jon Jashni (Producer) - Hyde Park Entertainment for Disney

Film credits also include: The Little Fugitive (Peter Dinklage, David Castro and Sophie Dahl) the Oscar nominated, Hilary and Jackie for October FIlms / BBC (starring Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths) for which he received a BAFTA nomination, the classic film Truly, Madly, Deeply for MGM directed by Anthony Minghella (starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson), Nostradamus for MGM / United Artists (starring John Malkovich and Julia Ormond)) for which he was nominated for Best Original Music category in the Ivor Novello Awards, Saint-Ex for BBC Films (starring Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz), Shopping for Polygram FIlms (starring Jude Law and Sean Bean), Shuang Long Hui (aka Twin Dragons) (starring Jackie Chan) and the horror
film The Mangler for New Line Cinema (starring Robert Englund).
Barrington Pheloung
He began his work in television in 1985 composing his first television series, the 13-part Boon. Since then Barrington's work has been enjoyed on all of 33 episodes of Inspector Morse episodes.The Morse album reached No.4 in the UK charts and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Television Music. Sales of the Morse album have now exceeded 1 million units! Barrington has completed 8 films of Lewis, the spin-off to Morse, for ITV/Granada with another series on its way. He also recently conducted the RPO with Lesley Garrett, Alfie Boe and Sir Willard White at The Royal Albert Hall for The Music Of Morse weekend which was broadcast on Classic FM and ITV and presented by Michael Parkinson

Further television work includes: The World of Nat King Cole, Portrait of a Marriage, Stanley and the Women, Channel 5 News, Good-bye Cruel World, Blood & Peaches, Mickey Love, Cinderpath, Brown Bears Wedding and the sequel White Bear’s Secret, Days of Majesty, The Legends of Treasure Island, Mosley, The Politician’s Wife, Dalziel and Pascoe and Cor Blimey.

Aside from Barrington's Film and Television work, his work in theatre is renowned. He has written scores for several West End plays including Made in Bangkok by Anthony Minghella, After the Fall by Arthur Miller and The Graduate by Terry Johnson. He has written over 52 commissioned scores for ballet and dance companies in Britain and Europe, conducting and recording several of them including the popular works Run Like Thunder and Rite Elektrik both choreographed by Tom Jobe. He scored the live show Wheel of Life which is performed by the kung-fu Shaolin Monks from China, and directed by Micha Bergese.

He has also collaborated with Revolution Software to write the music for the interactive computer games Broken Sword I, Broken Sword II and In Cold Blood.

For further information on Barrington please visit his site on: www.pheloung.co.uk

Press Release November 2005 - Barrington Pheloung’s Shopgirl soundtrack Reviews.

Barrington's Music Team Presentation 2006

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Live Performance

“The Music Of Morse”
Royal Albert Hall Concert
Composer: Barrington Pheloung
(Artists: Lesley Garrett, Alfie Boe
and Sir Willard White)

Composer Barrrington Pheloung conducts his famous Morse Theme at The Royal Albert Hall to an audience of 6,000. The concert was presented by Michael Parkinson and broadcast as a part of the Music Of Morse 25th Anniversary Celebrations on ITV and Classic FM.

Barrington continues to keep up his passion for live performance and conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall in an event to celebrate The Best Of British Film Composers for which he was asked to contribute (even though he’s Australian!)

Orchestras Conducted:

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
City of London Chamber Orchestra in Bath
The National Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall
The London Metropolitan Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall
The Orchestra of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre
The London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
Orchestra of St. John's Smith Square
Gottenburg Opera Orchestra
Saddlers Wells Royal Ballet Orchestra
Royal Opera House Orchestra at Covent Garden
Royal Scottish Ballet Orchestra
Koln Opera House Orchestra
Julliand School of Music in New York
San Francisco Ancient Music Academy in Los Angeles

Studio sessions

The Studio Sessions

Recording ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’ at Abbey Road Studio (2)