Oliver Kraus born 1970 in Shepherd's Bush, London, is an English musician

Musician

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 best known for his work as a cellist and string arranger/ producer and composer for film and television.

String Arrangements & Performance

As an Arranger Oliver has written and arranged strings for:

• Beth Orton's
  Beth Orton
  Beth Orton is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter, known for her 'folktronica' sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid 1990s. However, these were not Orton's first...
  
   album, Trailer Park
• Ash's
  Ash (band)
  Ash are an alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992. The band has sold 8 million albums worldwide.-Band beginning, Trailer and 1977 :...
  
   album, Free All Angels
• Tom McRae
  Tom McRae
  Tom McRae is an English singer-songwriter.-Career:The son of two Church of England vicars, McRae sang in the church choir and as a teen experimented with his mother's guitar...
  
  
• Duffy's
  Duffy (singer)
  Aimée Ann Duffy , known as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold...
  
   debut album, Rockferry
• Sia's
  Sia Furler
  Sia Kate Isobelle Furler or simply Sia, is an Australian pop, downtempo, and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000, her single, "Taken for Granted" was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album, Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard 200...
  
   album, Some People Have Real Problems
  Some People Have Real Problems
  Some People Have Real Problems is the fourth studio album by Australian singer Sia. Released in 2008, the album featured singles including 'Day Too Soon', 'The Girl You Lost' and 'Soon We'll Be Found'. In live performances of the latter song, Sia used sign language to accompany her singing...
  
  
• "Bound to You" from the Burlesque
  Burlesque (film)
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  soundtrack
• Other artists include Alexi Murdoch
  Alexi Murdoch
  Alexi Murdoch is a singer-songwriter born in London and raised in Scotland, Greece and France, now living in Berlin.- Background :Murdoch was born in London to a Greek father and Scottish-French mother and raised in Greece, just outside of Athens until he was ten, when his family moved to...
  
  , BellX1, Cary Brothers, Christina Aguilera
  Christina Aguilera
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  , Gomez, Jay Brannan, Joshua Radin, Lifehouse, Liz Phair, Mandy Moore
  Mandy Moore
  Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore is an American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer. Moore became famous as a teenager in the late 1990s, after the release of her teen pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. In 2007, she took an adult pop-folk direction with the release of...
  
  , Marc Almond
  Marc Almond
  Marc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...
  
  , Meiko, My Life Story, The View, The Weepies, Thea Gilmore, Tracey Thorn, Priscilla Ahn, and Rachael Yamagata
• Ben Ottewell's album, Shapes and Shadows, released 2011
• Complete List

Film and television

As a Composer Oliver has written music for film and television with frequent collaboration with Cure drummer, Jason Cooper.

Film

• Eclipse dir. David Slade, song My Love co-written with Sia Furler, produced by Oliver Kraus, 2010
• From Within, dir. Phedon Papamichael, 2008 winner of Grand Jury Award for Best Music Score at the Solstice Film Festival
• Joybells, dir. Mike Hawley, 2007 (to view a portion of this documentary, http://www.joybells.co.uk/2009/11/joybells-dvd/)
• The Power of the Game, dir. Michael Apted, 2007
• Spiderhole, dir. Daniel Simpson, 2009
• The Uninvited, dir. Daniel Simpson, 1999
• h dir, Daniel Simpson 1995
• Handle With Care, dir, Alexis Bowler & Sandy Hunt, WWF 1992, Awards: Winner Best Children’s Program at Chicago International Children's Film Festival; New England Children's Film festival; British Animation Week, National Film Theatre, London; Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Television

• Meercats Natural World BBC 2 2003
• What's the Big Idea Series Discovery Ch 2004
• Cheetahs Natural World BBC 2 2005
• The Battle with my Brain Despatches C4 2005
• Toki's Tale Natural World BBC 2 2007
• Macintyre Investigates Series BBC 1 2002-3
• Whistleblowers Series BBC 1 2004-6
• Dogfighting Panorama BBC 1 2007

External links

• http://www.myspace.com/oliverkraus