Murray Gold

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Murray Gold at the 2008 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

Murray Gold (* 28. February 1969 in Portsmouth ) is a British film music - composer , stage and radio play writer . Gold currently lives in New York . He is particularly known for his soundtrack compositions for Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures , for which he was solely responsible as musical director from 2005 to the end of 2017 .

Gold has been nominated seven times for BAFTA Awards in the category of best newly composed film music , including Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006) and several episodes of Doctor Who (2006-2013). His music for BAFTA winner Kiss of Life also received the Mozart Prize of the 7th Art at the 2003 Aubagne International Film Festival. His show Glue Wedding was nominated for the Guardian Drama Award and the Independent Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival .

biography

Gold began taking piano lessons at the age of six - and later also clarinet lessons . At the age of eight, his focus shifted towards improvisation and composition at school . His first compositions in school a. a. for brass bands , according to their own statement, they served "to win school competitions and to please the girls". He only started writing incidental music " to experiment with his multi-track recorder ". He subsequently became musical director of the comedy group The Footlights . While studying history at Cambridge , he began to write plays, composed the scores himself and played in a band with Colin Greenwood from Radiohead . After graduating, he started a. a. to compose for the theater The Gate . After the success with the show Glue Wedding at the Edinburgh Festival in 1991, he composed the music for television documentaries , worked for the radio show The Knowledge on Radio 1 and worked as a writer for Channel 5 . When Mark Mundon, one of the documentary directors , got the contract for Vanity Fair , he asked Gold to write the score. Here Russell T Davies , who needed a composer for Queer as Folk (the British original) at short notice, noticed him.

Career

Television
Gold has worked extensively with screenwriter and television producer Russell T Davies since 1999 . He composed for the British series Queer as Folk , The Second Coming (with Christopher Eccleston ), Mine all Mine (with Gareth David-Lloyd ) and Casanova (with David Tennant ) before he became musical director for Davies' major project in 2005 , the revised continuation of SciFi - Kulthits Doctor who . He also wrote the theme of the Shameless series ( Channel 4 ) and the score for The Devil's Whore and Single Father (2010) with David Tennant . In 2014 he composed the theme music for the BBC series The Musketeers (with Peter Capaldi ). All of the actors listed here (Eccleston, David-Lloyd, Tennant and Capaldi) met Gold again as part of his work for Russell T Davies' Doctor Who and its offshoots. The distinguished character actor Christopher Eccleston also took on the lead role in 2004 in the stage adaptation of Murray Gold's audio book Electricity (2001).

Doctor Who and spin-offs
During his work for the Doctor Who production, he reworked the series theme (originally by Ron Grainer ), which had already been common in the past for a new incarnation of the doctor and also when switching from the tenth to the eleventh doctor took place. The other compositions of the individual episodes are also by Gold. The music of the first two aired seasons was released on December 11, 2006 under the title Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack . The soundtrack of the third (November 5, 2007) and the soundtrack of the fourth season (November 2008) were released on separate albums. In the 2007 Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned , Gold made a cameo appearance in the band playing there.

While the music at the beginning of the new Doctor Who series was based on sampled music, his compositions later became more orchestral. Usually the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays (conductor: Thomas Søndergård ), with the orchestral arrangements he receives support from Ben Foster. Occasionally the orchestra is supported by a choir of several hundred singers, while the soprano Melanie Pappenheim regularly performs solos. In the original Doctor Who series (1963–1989), the innovative but limited instrumentation tended towards the electronic genre.

Gold also wrote the themes for the Doctor Who spin-offs The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood and composed the rest of the soundtrack for the two series together with Ben Foster. In contrast to the Doctor Who sound, Gold for Torchwood deliberately composes darker and mainly electronically. A selection of the compositions was released under the title Torchwood: Original Television Soundtrack in August 2008. Gold also arranged the themes for Totally Doctor Who and Doctor Who Confidential , both variations of the Doctor Who theme.

Gold and Foster have arranged and conducted four concerts to date to the music of Doctor Who . The first was a benefit concert for the BBC Children's Fund Children in Need and was held on November 19, 2006 under the title Doctor Who: A Celebration at the Wales Millennium Center in Cardiff. The second concert, The Doctor Who Prom , was part of the BBC Proms on July 27, 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London . The two following proms also featured a concert to the music of Doctor Who (both Gold's own compositions and the older music in the series from 1963–1996 by a total of 25 other composers). The second Doctor Who Proms took place on July 24th and 25th, 2010, the third on July 13th and 14th, 2013. The venue was again London's Royal Albert Hall. All four events were broadcast live on the BBC (television and radio).

At the end of the tenth Doctor Who season (Christmas special 2017), Gold ended his composing work for the series. He left the project together with Davies' successor ( showrunner ) Steven Moffat and lead actor Peter Capaldi , who will hand over the baton to Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker from 2018 . Gold's successor is Segun Akinola, who has previously composed for short films and documentaries and has been working on Doctor Who since season 11.

Film, Theater and Radio
Gold composed the score for British and American works, including Die for Beginners by Frank Oz and Mischief Night , Alien Autopsy and the film adaptation of Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die .

His radio play Electricity received the Richard Imison Award for Best New Radio Play after being broadcast on Radio 3 in 2001.

Parts of the radio play were adapted as a stage play and premiered in 2004 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Other plays include 50 Revolutions , performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theater in London in 2000, and Resolution , premiered in 1994 at the Battersea Arts Center.

On April 24, 2011, Murray's second radio play Kafka: The Musical premiered again on BBC Radio 3 . In addition to the script, Gold also wrote the background music for his audio book. The leading role of Franz Kafka was given by David Tennant and directed by Jeremy Mortimer. Tennant won the BBC Audio Drama Award 2011 for his performance , and Gold won the 2012 Tinniswood Award for Best Audiobook Script.

Works (selection)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Doctor Who - Series 3
  UK 65 11/17/2007 (1 week)
Doctor Who - Series 4
  UK 92 11/29/2008 (1 week)
Doctor Who - Series 4 - The Specials
  UK 49 10/16/2010 (1 week)
Doctor Who - Series 5
  UK 53 11/20/2010 (1 week)
Doctor Who - Series 7
  UK 37 09/21/2013 (1 week)
Doctor Who - Series 8
  UK 53 05/30/2015 (1 week)
Doctor Who - Series 9
  UK 47 05/10/2018 (1 week)

Film music (selection)

Stage plays

  • 1991: Glue Wedding
  • 1994: resolution
  • 2000: 50 revolutions
  • 2004: Electricity

Radio plays

  • 2001: Electricity

Awards

British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA Awards)

  • 1999: BAFTA TV Award - Best Music (New Composition) - Vanity Fair - nominated
  • 2000: BAFTA TV Award - Best Music (New Composition) - Queer as Folk - nominated
  • 2006: BAFTA TV Award - Best Music (New Composition) - Casanova - nominated
  • 2006: BAFTA Cymru Award - Y Trac Sain Gerddorol Wreiddiol Orau / Best Soundtrack (new composition) - Doctor Who (episode: The Christmas Invasion ) - nominated
  • 2008: BAFTA TV Award - Best Music (New Composition) - Doctor Who - nominated
  • 2009: BAFTA Cymru Award - Y Trac Sain Gerddorol Wreiddiol Orau / Best Soundtrack (new composition) - Doctor Who (episode: Midnight ) - nominated
  • 2013: BAFTA TV Award - Best Music (new composition) - Doctor Who (episode: Asylum of the Daleks ) - nominated

Royal Television Society (RTS Television Award)

  • 1999: Best Music (New Composition) - Vanity Fair - nominated
  • 1999: Best music (new composition) - Queer as Folk - won
  • 2000: Best title melody (new composition) - Clocking Off - nominated
  • 2003: Best Music (New Composition) - The Second Coming - nominated

International Film Music Critics (IFMCA Award)

  • 2008: Best Music (new composition for a television series) - Doctor Who - nominated
  • 2011: Best Music (new composition for a television series) - Doctor Who - nominated
  • 2012: Best Music (new composition for a television series) - Doctor Who - nominated
  • 2013: Best Music (Recomposition for TV Series) - Doctor Who - won

Aubagne International Film Festival

  • 2003: Mozart Prize of the 7th Art - Kiss of Life - won

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murray Gold. In: Twitter . February 28, 2011, accessed February 28, 2011 .
  2. ↑ dates of birth at amazon.com . amazon.com. Retrieved February 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ music from the movies . mftm. January 30, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
  4. ↑ Murray Gold - Awards list of the IMDb . Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b c d Interview from DWM 363 on btinternet.com . btinternet. May 5, 2005. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
  6. ↑ a b c d Interview with Murray Gold . soundonsound. January 30, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
  7. ↑ a b c MURRAY GOLD Exclusive interview for ScoreTrack.Net . ScoreTrack.Net. June 2007. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 9, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scoretrack.net
  8. ^ Festival Review Edinburgh Festival 1991 . Ian Shuttleworth. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  9. ^ Variations on the Doctor Who theme . Gateworld. June 18, 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
  10. ↑ Interview with composer Murray Gold . whoviannet. January 3, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  11. ^ Doctor Who - Fact File - Voyage of the Damned . BBC . December 25, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
  12. ↑ The Doctor Who Proms . mftm (music from the movies). January 30, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
  13. ^ Gary Russell : Doctor Who: The Inside Story . BBC Books, London 2006, ISBN 0-563-48649-X , pp. 129-132.
  14. ↑ Mick Brown: Music Ex Machina . In: Radio Times, reprinted on mb21 web site . Mike Brown. 1979. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
  15. ↑ Torchwood soundtrack . amazon. January 30, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2010.
  16. ↑ Doctor Who fans enjoy Proms special . BBC. July 27, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2008.
  17. ↑ Murray Gold will score Veronika Decides to Die . filmmusicmag. January 31, 2010. Accessed January 31, 2010.
  18. ↑ a b c Drama on 3: Kafka the Musical Program information on the BBC homepage. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  19. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  20. ↑ Murray Gold's Facebook page . Murray Gold. January 31, 2010. Accessed January 31, 2010.
  21. ↑ The Rotkäppchen ultimatum in the IMDb . Retrieved December 31, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Gold, Murray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film music composer, stage and radio play writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Portsmouth