David Lowe

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David Lowe is a British composer, focusing primarily on music for television. His major work includes the distinctive themes for BBC News (including BBC News 24, BBC World, and many BBC regional news programmes). Other British programmes include Grand Designs on Channel 4 and the Channel 5 motoring programme 5th Gear. He has also created themes for the Al Arabiya Channel in Dubai, NDTV in India and TV2 in Norway.

His`single Would You...? under the name Touch and Go was a top 3 hit in the UK in 1998 and a hit in the rest of Europe in early 1999. The album "I've Noticed You Around" spawned more hit singles in Eastern Europe and Russia. "Straight...to Number One" was chosen by Apple to launch the iTunes site in the USA, where every track on the album has been used in films, television and/or commercials.

In 2005 Lowe was invited by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters to write the theme for the 50th Ivor Novello Awards ceremony, and in that same year he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Staffordshire University. In 2006 he was commissioned to write the music for the BAFTA Film and Television Awards and for the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics.

In 1997 Lowe released his debut album Dreamcatcher, which he performed at several WOMAD festivals. In 2004, he was commissioned by WOMAD to provide a music soundscape for The Tropical Biome at the Eden Project, which was performed at WOMAD Reading in 2005. Reinforced with several new songs, the material has been reworked to form his second Dreamcatcher album, "What...is In Between?", released on Oval Records in October 2006. Featured vocalists are poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah and Japanese artist and composer Mieko Shimizu, while Lowe himself sings on "Still The Greatest."