Writing Music for Film & TV Seminar
June 16th sees a new Seminar brought by Bristol composer, orchestrator and conductor William Goodchild. Book Here
William composes and produces music for film, television and concert performance. As a composer he specialises in wildlife and history documentary and has scored films for major broadcasters including BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, National Geographic International and Animal Planet. Recent wildlife commissions include ‘Wild Japan’ (National Geographic, 2010), ‘Wild Russia’ (National Geographic, 2009), and ‘Lobo – the Wolf that Changed America’ (BBC Natural World, 2008). ‘Lobo’ won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the
Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2009 and the Jury’s Special Prize at the 2008 Wildscreen Global Wildlife and Environmental Film Festival. History features include specials for Channel 4 such as ‘Athens – the Truth about Democracy’ (2007), and ‘When the Moors Ruled in Europe’ (2006).
As orchestrator and conductor William works with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Metropolitan Orchestra. He has undertaken numerous projects for the BBC with a variety of composers including Barnaby Taylor, Ben Salisbury and
David Poore. ‘Nature’s Great Events’, broadcast last year on BBC1 was subsequently performed as a live concert in Colston Hall, conducted by William, as part of its new launch festival. ‘Wild China’ (2008), composed by Barnaby Taylor and orchestrated and conducted by William, won an Emmy in 2009 for Music and Sound. William has collaborated on stage and in the recording studio with a wide variety of international soloists including John Williams, Andy Sheppard, Tom Jones and most recently Roni Size & Reprazent. A number of William’s recordings are available on Sony Classical, Universal Classical and Jazz, and
CBS Records.
William teaches on the Film and Television Music MA at Bristol University. This summer he is working with the BBC Concert Orchestra on a Music for Film project with 20 young people as part of the Bristol Festival of Nature 2010.
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