Dru Masters |
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Dru Masters is a classically trained composer/producer/arranger with 18 years experience working to picture in all styles.
Dru's ability to switch between dance and classical music (and sometimes combine the two, as with all-girl string quartet BOND) explains why he recently produced the new Mediaeval Baebes album whilst writing the theme tune for the UK (and international, ex. US) version of 'The Apprentice'.
Education:
Purcell School of Music 1976 - 1983
National Youth Jazz Orchestra 1981 - 1983
Technical Equipment: A fully digital, synched-to-picture studio in London
Other Skills/Additional Information:
Orchestral arranger.
Dance music producer/remixer.
Instruments played: tenor/soprano/alto/baritone sax, keyboards/piano, clarinet, flute, trumpet, guitars/bass, percussion, sitar, tabla
Dru's website can be found at www.drumasters.com
Recent TV theme and incidental compositions include:
- The Restaurant (2007)
- (15 x 60mins) - BBC1
- Dave Gorman's Unchained America (2007)
- Avalon/More 4
- The Apprentice Series 3 (2007)
- Talkback Thames/BBC1
- Bringing Up Baby (2007)
- Silver River/Channel 4
- The Mission (2007)
- Silver River/Channel 4
- Throw The Book At Them (2007)
- Diverse/Channel 4
- Only Human:Life After Death (2007)
- ZKK/Channel 4
- When Love Comes To Town (2007)
- (8 x 30mins) - BBC1
- The Real Mrs Doubtfire (2007)
- V Good/Sky
- ASBO Teen To Beauty Queen (2006)
- (6 x 60mins) - North One/Five
- The Apprentice (2005/2006)
- (12 x 60mins Theme & Incidentals) - Talkback Thames/BBC
- I'm with Stupid (2006)
- BBC
- Only Human: Truly, Madly, Deeply (2006)
- Betty TV/Channel 4
- Mark Kermode's Film Review (2006)
- BBC
- Ann Maurice - Interior Rivalry (2006)
- Silver River/Five
- Reader, I Married Him (2006)
- Silver River/Five
- Teenager Tamer (2006)
- Talkback Thames/Five
- Big Ron Manager (2006)
- North One/Sky
- When Kim and Aggie went to Hospital (2006)
- Talkback Thames/Channel 4
- The Unteachables (2005)
- Talkback Thames/Channel 4
- Football Icon (2005/6)
- North One/Sky
- ITV4 Station Idents
- Red Bee/ITV
- Are you younger than you think? (2005)
- North One/BBC
- Dispatches: MMR What the didn't tell you (2005)
- Twenty Twenty/Channel 4
- Secrets of the Sexes: Love (2005)
- BBC
- How not to die (2005)
- Scream/Sky
- Total Rugby (2005)
- TWI/Sky
- The Body Of... (2004)
- Tiger Aspect/BBC
- Star Portraits (2004)
- Hotbed Media/BBC
- Transworld Sports (2000 - 2006)
- TWI/Channel 4
- Children's Ward (1995 - 2000
- Granada TV
Recent productions:
- Bananarama
- Writing and production
- The Mediaeval Baebes
- (Album - 17 tracks)
- Amici Forever
- (Co-write and production)
Theatre
- 'The Very Nearly Love Life Of My Friend Paul' by Adam Smethurst
- Incidental music including a featured, full orchestral piece for the Edinburgh Festival 2001
- 'Cannibal' by Richard Crowe and Richard Zajdlic
Recent advertising campaigns include:
- Pataks
- Imperial Leather
- Sony Playstation
- Morrisons
- VW Polo
- The Guardian
- UKTV
- Danone
- Ikea
- egg.com
- The National Lottery
- Martini
As a songwriter and producer he has worked on an extremely diverse range of projects including:
- Holly Valance
- (Harry Valance remix of 'State of Mind')
- Tina Barrett
- (ex S Club) (writing and production)
- Manic Street Preachers
- (remix)
- George Michael
- (writing)
- Bond
- (writing and production)
- Praise
- (writing and production)
- Deep Forest
- (remix)
- Cyndi Lauper
- (remix)
- Bananarama
- (writing and production)
- Steve Martland
- (production and writing)