Paul Farrer
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Paul Farrer (born 1973) is a British Film and TV Composer.
His most notable works have been composing the music to the programmes The Weakest Link, Dancing on Ice and Sky One's Gladiators 2008
Other TV shows for which he has composed the music include Ant & Dec's PokerFace (ITV1), Jerry Springer's The Springer Show (ITV1), Dog Eat Dog (BBC One), The 77th Annual Academy Awards and Riot Cops. In 2006 he scored the Fox Reality series My Bare Lady, "Jamie Theakston's The Search (Channel Four), "Car Wars" BBC1 and "Alan Titchmarsh's "The Great British Village Show" for BBC. His 2007 shows include Peter Jones' Tycoon[[1]], "Families at War" with Trisha Goddard for Channel Five, [2]The iraq Commission for Channel Four and Marbella Belles[3] for ITV. 2008 sees the launch of the new Trisha Goddard Show, daily on Channel Five, for which Farrer has composed brand new titles music. Also in 2008 Dancing on Ice returns to ITV for a third series with Farrer's score updated and remixed, along with a second series of Nothing But The Truth staring Jerry Springer for Sky One.
In May 2008 Sky One's relaunch of Gladiators premiered. Paul Farrer was commissioned to compose brand new theme music and incidental music.
Farrer's music has also appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show "Little Britain", "The I.T. Crowd" and in the 2005 Tony Scott/Keira Knightley film Domino.
He is the recipient of a BMI Composer Award and an Ampex Golden Reel Award. He is a member of both The Performing Rights Society (PRS) and The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
[edit] External links
- Paul Farrer - Official website
- [4] - Paul Farrer on IMDB
