Christopher Gunning
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Christopher Gunning (born August 5, 1944) is a British composer of concert works and of music for films and television.
His film and TV compositions have received many awards, including 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for "La Vie en Rose (film)", as well as three more BAFTA awards for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue, and three Ivor Novello Awards for Rebecca, Under Suspicion, and Firelight.
His scores for The Big Battalions, Wild Africa, Cold Lazarus and When the Whales Came have also received nominations for BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards, and his music for the Martini advertising campaign, heard around the world for thirty years, won three Clio awards.
Gunning composed the music for nearly all of the Poirot TV films starring David Suchet as the Belgian detective, and worked on all three series of Rosemary and Thyme, featuring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris. He recently scored "La Mome" (aka "La Vie en Rose"), a feature film of the life of Edith Piaf.
As well as performances of his television and film scores, Gunning's "Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra", and "The Lobster" have been programmed in various venues including London's South Bank. The Saxophone Concerto, played by John Harle with the Academy St. Martin in the Fields, has been released on the Sanctuary Classics Label, The Lobster is available on the Meridian label, and the Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 1 and Storm have been released by Albany Records. Recent works include concertos for the oboe and clarinet, and Symphonies 3 and 4.
Latest CD: Skylines
This information, biography, full discography, music clips etc. on his website: http://www.christopher-gunning.co.uk Gunning, Christopher. Christopher Gunning. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.
