Howard Davidson |
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Howard Davidson is a prolific composer of music for film, television and the theatre with over three hundred scores to his credit.
Following study of electroacoustic music composition and clarinet at the Royal College of Music Howard pursued a career as a performer with many of the leading orchestras and ensembles in London and Australia.
He subsequently focused his career on composition for film and television and is in great demand for drama and documentary scores. Howard has also composed the music to several theatre productions including plays at the Manchester Royal Exchange, Birmingham Rep., Hampstead Theatre (Director: Richard Wilson - 'Imagine Drowning' by Terry Johnson), Warwick Arts Centre (Director: Maria Aitken - 'Vita and Virginia' by Eileen Atkins), Chichester Festival Theatre (Director: Maria Aitken - 'Easy Virtue' by Noel Coward), The Royal Court, The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and Dukes Theatre, West End ('After Mrs Rochester' and 'Madame Bovary' Shared Experience Theatre, Director: Polly Teale) and Duchess Theatre, West End ('Man and Boy'). Music for radio includes five plays for Catherine Bailey Productions, all broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 ('Quartermaine's Terms', 'War with the Newts', 'Japanese Tales', Terre Haute' and 'Laughter in the Dark' which won a Sony Gold Award).
Howard is also Musical Director of the Kosh Dance Theatre Company.
RECENT SCORES FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
- Alive: Caveboy
- Darlow Smithson/Channel 4 & Discovery
- Alive: Kayakers
- Darlow Smithson/Channel 4 & Discovery
- Titanic: Birth of a Legend
- Granada TV/ITV
- Myths and Heroes
- Maya Vision/BBC 2 (Performed by RPO)
- Finding Franklin
- Crossing the line Films/Channel 5
- Ming Voyages
- Invision Productions/PBS
- White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
- Periscope Productions/BBC 2
- One Life
- BBC 1 (Titles)
- Tyler's Ultimate
- Optomen Productions/The Food Channel
- Battlefield Detectives
- CH 5
- In Search of Shakespeare
- Maya Vision/BBC 2 (Performed by RPO)
- Napoleon's Road to Waterloo
- Granada/ITV
- How to build a human
- (co-credit) - BBC 2
- The Queen's Story
- Blakeway Associates/ITV
- The Human Face
- (co-credit) - BBC 2
- Conquistadors
- (co-credit) - BBC 2
- Maya Vision/BBC 2
- Secrets of the Dead: The Mary Rose
- Darlow Smithson/CH 4
- Secrets of the Dead: Jamestown
- Optomen
- Productions/CH 4
- Real Spartacus
- Real Spartacus
- Granada Television/ITV
- Equinox: Black Box
- Darlow Smithson/CH 4
- Lava Hunters
- Cafe Productions/Discovery & CH 5
- The Major Years
- Blakeway Associates/CH 4
- Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
- Prominent Television/BBC 1
- Savage Planet
- 8 part series - Granada Television/ITV
- History Lab: Blood Red Roses
- Granada/Channel 4
- Real Lives: Goldsmith
- Blakeway Associates/CH 4
- Science at War
- BBC1 (6 part series)
- Station X
- Darlow Smithson/CH 4 (4 part series)
- Sex Bomb
- The Smithson Film Co/CH 4 (4 part series)
- Deadline
- Platinum Film Company/CH 4
- The Coroners
- Twenty Twenty Television/CH 4
- Dispatches Men
- First Frame Television/CH 4
- Vintners Tales
- 10 part series - Uden Productions/BBC 2
- Savage Skies, Savage Earth & Savage Seas
- 3 x 4 part series Granada/ITV
- Sister Wendy's Grand Tour
- BBC2
- Children of Crime
- Blakeway Associates/CH 4
- Equinox: Miracle Police
- Ideal World Productions/CH 4
- Unholy War
- Mosaic Films/CH 5
- The Wilderness Years
- 4 part series - Blakeway Associates/BBC 2
- Knife to the Heart
- 4 part series - Barraclough Carey/CH 4
- Reputations: Macmillan
- Blakeway Associates/CH 4
- Nightmare: Origins of Horror
- 4 part series - Wall to Wall Productions - BBC1
- Spirit of the Race
- Philharmonia Orchestra - Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club
- Romance & Rejection
- Feature Film
- Byzantium
- John Romer's 4 part series - ABTV/CH 4/Discovery
- Royals & Reptiles
- 3 part series - Blakeway Associates/CH 4
- Van Gogh Fakes
- Third Eye Productions - CH 4