The Sound of Movie Musicals with Neil Brand
Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series on the movie musical – from Hollywood to China and the USSR, and from Snow White and Gene Kelly to Grease and La La Land.
Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series on the movie musical – from Hollywood to China and the USSR, and from Snow White and Gene Kelly to Grease and La La Land.
The M. R. JamesBBC Radio Collection Dramatisations and readings of his classic ghost storiesM. R. James Mark Gatiss (Read by) James D’Arcy (Read by) Anton Lesser (Read by) Julian Rhind-Tutt (Read by) Derek Jacobi (Read…
On Monday 3rd October, 2016, twelve exceptional individuals collected a Gold Badge Award from BASCA, in recognition of their unique contribution to music. Crispin Hunt, BASCA Chairman said: “It is a great pleasure for BASCA…
The BBCSO and Barbican Concert Hall are looking to perform Neil’s acclaimed concert adaptation of A Christmas Carol next December (2016) – watch this space. More on the original radio adaptation here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02dklq7/p02dkln1, and…
Neil visited University of Indiana, Bloomington, to help promote the US premiere of his score to Hitchcock’s Blackmail. You can hear an interview and read more about the event here: http://indianapublicmedia.org/arts/blackmail-neil-brand-scores-big/
Neil’s next project for BBC Radio Drama is an adaptation of Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as a Saturday drama – and no, it won’t be anything like the excellent Charlie Higson ITV version!
Neil is currently scoring the great Soviet space movie Cosmic Voyage for Filmmuseum Munich DVD release next year.
On Wednesday 10 July, 2013, Neil Brand was presented as Fellow of Aberystwyth University. Neil, who graduated in English and Drama from Aberystwyth, was presented by Professor Robert Meyrick, Head of the School of Art. See full article.
Neil was at the heart of the BBC’s Film Music season which plays across BBC4 and all the BBC national radio networks in September – he wrote and presented the 3-part series ‘Sound of Cinema…