Andrew Skeet

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Andrew Skeet
Birth nameAndrew John Skeet
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Origin Croydon, London, England
Genres Film, classical, video game, electronic, chamber pop
Occupation(s)Composer, orchestrator, conductor
Years active2000s to present
WebsiteAndrew Skeet: Composer and Orchestrator

Andrew John Skeet (born 1969 in Croydon) is an English musician, composer and music producer. He has written scores for television and film and worked with many well-known composers and artists as an arranger, orchestrator and conductor.

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Biography

Andrew Skeet attended Trinity Boys School in Croydon where, as a boy singer, he appeared on soundtracks such as Monty Python's The Meaning of Life , Barbra Streisand's Yentl and Another Country starring Rupert Everett as Guy Bennett and Colin Firth as Tommy Judd. Skeet then studied music at the University of East Anglia and at The Royal College of Music in London. [1]

Professional life

Television and film commissions

With former Howie B collaborator Luke Gordon, Skeet established the production company Roxbury Music and their music has been used extensively on British television. Programmes which have featured music by Roxbury include The Apprentice, Dispatches, Banged Up Abroad, Britain's Lost World, Freaky Eaters, What Katy Did Next, Gumball's 3000 Miles, Kali, a collaboration with Mike Figgis for the London Film Festival and Locked Up Abroad. Their music has been heard all over the world with tracks released on a series of library albums for Universal on The Atmosphere label, Chappell and Bruton.

Skeet has scored several feature-length documentaries including Don’t F**k with Cats Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web, Destination Unknown &How To Re-establish A Vodka Empire and has released two acclaimed and highly successful albums of video game music with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Composer

Skeet was signed to Sony Classics in 2014 and released his first solo album, Finding Time.

Collaborations

Skeet is a member of Neil Hannon's The Divine Comedy [2] and has worked as an arranger and orchestrator for artists such as George Michael, Sinéad O'Connor, Suede & James Lavelle's Unkle. [3] With Neil Hannon he has toured regularly as music director and keyboard player of The Divine Comedy following the departure of Joby Talbot and has appeared on three albums as arranger and conductor; Hannon's ninth album Victory for the Comic Muse, released in June 2006, 2010's Bang Goes the Knighthood and the 2016 release Foreverland.

In November 2010 Skeet collaborated with Grammy-award-winning artist Imogen Heap on an orchestral score played live to picture called Love The Earth [4] which was premiered at the Albert Hall. They also worked together on a choral commission for the Bird's Eye Festival at the BFI – an a cappella choral score to the first ever surrealist film The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1927) with the Holst Singers. Skeet regularly works with TV and film composer Daniel Pemberton as orchestrator and conductor on many movies and TV shows including Steve Jobs, Man from U.N.K.L.E., All the Money in the World, King Arthur,Molly's Game, Gold, Desperate Romantics, Occupation, Hiroshima, Monster Moves, Money and the 2010 revival of Upstairs Downstairs. He has worked with Welsh electronic music group Hybrid contributing orchestral and string arrangements to Morning Sci-fi and Disappear Here.

Skeet has worked as an orchestrator on several feature films including Ridley Scott's Robin Hood , Garth Jennings' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Basil Dearden's The League of Gentlemen and as lead orchestrator and conductor on Nick Murphy's forthcoming feature The Awakening starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton.

Compositions, arrangements, orchestrations and recordings

This is a partial list

With The Divine Comedy:
 2006– Victory for the Comic Muse (arranger, keyboards)
2010– Bang Goes the Knighthood (arranger, keyboards)
2016– Foreverland (arranger, keyboards)
2019– Office Politics (arranger, keyboards)

With Hybrid
2003– Morning Sci-Fi (orchestrator, arranger)
2010– Disappear Here (orchestrator, arranger)

With Imogen Heap
2010–The Seashell and the Clergyman (arranger)
2011– Love the Earth (orchestrator)

With Anthony Phillips as Skeet & Phillips:
 2012- Seventh Heaven (arranger, composer)

As Composer:
the following are library albums for Universal; each album presented contains tracks by Andrew Skeet

2007– 3000 Miles: Gumball 3000 (with Luke Gordon)
2011– How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire (City of Prague Philharmonic) [5] [6] 2014- Destination Unknown 2014– Finding Time (Artist on Sony Classics)

As Orchestrator
2005– The Movies (video game) (conductor: jazz & rock music, orchestrator) [7]
2007– Heroes and Villains [7]
2009– Desperate Romantics (with Daniel Pemberton) [7]
2010– Upstairs, Downstairs (with Daniel Pemberton) [arranger, orchestrator]
2011– The Awakening (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2013– The Counsellor (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2014– Cuban Fury (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2015– Woman in Gold (with Martin Phipps) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2015– The Man From UNCLE (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2015– Steve Jobs (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2016– War and Peace (with Martin Phipps) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2016– Victoria (with Ruth Barrett) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2017– All the Money in the World (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2017– Molly's Game (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2017– Black Mirror (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]
2018– Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor]

As Conductor and producer:
 2011– The Greatest Video Game Music (London Philharmonic Orchestra) [8] (Producer, Conductor)
2012– The Greatest Video Game Music 2 (London Philharmonic Orchestra) (Producer, Conductor)

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References

  1. ↑ "Andrew's Biography". Andrew Skeet: Composer and Arranger. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  2. ↑ "Neil Hannon & The Divine Comedy". A Short Site about The Divine Comedy. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "Andrew Skeet: Orchestration". Andrew Skeet: Composer and Arranger. Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "About the Project and Performance". Love the Earth Film.Org: Our Planet with Your Eyes. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  5. 1 2 "Universal Publishing Production Music" . Retrieved 16 December 2011. This is the same as ATMOS281 (Independent Film Score), score was supported by Universal Publishing
  6. ↑ "Film Detail: How To Re-establish a Vodka Empire". British Council. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  7. 1 2 3 "Andrew Skeet". IMDB. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  8. ↑ Monger, James Christopher. "Review: The Greatest Video Game Music". Allmusic. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
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