Howard Davidson
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Howard Davidson is a composer of music for film, television, radio and the theatre.
Davidson has over 300 scores to his credit, many in collaboration with noted documentary maker Michael Wood and made for the BBC
and PBS
. His orchestral scores have been performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra
, and both the Royal Philharmonic
and Philharmonia
Orchestras. Radio credits include Iris Murdoch's
Under the Net
, Nabokov's
Laughter in the Dark and Terre Haute by Edmund White
. For television, recent productions include Titanic-Birth of a Legend and Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare , In Search of Myths & Heroes and more recently The Story of India
.
He is a Professor of Composition for the Screen at the Royal College of Music
, London
.
Davidson has over 300 scores to his credit, many in collaboration with noted documentary maker Michael Wood and made for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
and PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
. His orchestral scores have been performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra
BBC Concert Orchestra
The BBC Concert Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's five radio orchestras. With around fifty players, it is the only one of the five which is not a full-scale symphony orchestra....
, and both the Royal Philharmonic
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"...
and Philharmonia
Philharmonia
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the leading orchestras in Great Britain, based in London. Since 1995, it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the resident orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Corn Exchange, Bedford, as well as The Anvil, Basingstoke...
Orchestras. Radio credits include Iris Murdoch's
Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch DBE was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about political and social questions of good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious...
Under the Net
Under the Net
Under the Net was the first novel of Iris Murdoch, published in 1954. Set in London, it is the story of a struggling young writer, Jake Donaghue. Its mixture of the philosophical and the picaresque has made it one of Murdoch's most popular....
, Nabokov's
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
Laughter in the Dark and Terre Haute by Edmund White
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
. For television, recent productions include Titanic-Birth of a Legend and Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare , In Search of Myths & Heroes and more recently The Story of India
The Story of India
-External links:* at PBS* * - Interview with the creator Michael Wood...
.
He is a Professor of Composition for the Screen at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.