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John
Hardy is an accomplished composer of music in all media and
across all genres. He has written original music for over 140 dramas,
documentaries and features, which have been seen all over the world, and
broadcast on the UK on all networks.
Highlights include:
The British commercial film Rancid Aluminium, starring Rhys Ifans,
Stephen Berkoff, Tara Fitzgerald and Sadie Frost, the Oscar-nominated
Welsh film Hedd Wyn, which won the RTS best drama award and a
string of other awards, including BAFTA Cymru’s best original music, the
latest series of 7 feature-length TV detective murder dramas A Mind to
Kill, starring Philip Madoc as Inspector Bain, for HTV, Carlton, C5,
Pearson International and S4C, the documentary series Egypt Uncovered,
for the Discovery channel, seen around the world and soon to be released
on video by Readers’ Digest, and the Kaarl Francis social
conscience weepie Streetlife, starring Helen McRory and Rhys Ifans,
which was showered with awards.
Alongside this music for the screen,
John has composed for BBC Radio dramas, various composer-in-education
schemes, for theatre and for dance companies. There have been commissions
for orchestra, chamber music, song-cycles, choirs, chamber operas and
community opera, commissioned by the Arts Councils of England and Wales,
the National Lottery, the BBC, Welsh National Opera and the Welsh Proms,
among others.
if you want to compose for film, first study every
kind of music in the
world, then open your mind to collaboration....
Ennio Morricone.
IN PROGRESS: (up-dated 8 January
2003):
Various exciting projects in progress, including a major new Welsh drama,
currently in production, a 13-part series of children’s Bible stories,
for Dutch, UK, Welsh and international broadcast, and the compilation of
over 100 hours of past music for film and TV onto over 70 CD’s.
This personal archive is available for re-use at little or no cost, as
long as details of use are properly logged and reported via MCPS.
Other Hardy compositions are available
at Music House [library music] through EMI and on the Sain label.
Contact John Hardy at: mail@johnhardymusic.com
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