Peter Raeburn

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Peter Raeburn
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Born
Johannesburg, South Africa
Occupations
  • Composer
  • music producer
  • songwriter
  • creative director
  • recording artist
Years active1995–present

Peter Raeburn is a British composer, music producer and songwriter. He has won over 70 awards across the various mediums in which he has worked.

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As a composer, Raeburn has written the score for a variety of feature films including The Dry (dir. Robert Connelly) starring Eric Bana for Made Up Stories, Photograph (dir. Ritesh Batra) released by Amazon, Things Heard & Seen (dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini ) for Netflix starring Amanda Seyfried, Samuel Goldwyn's Nancy (dir. Christina Choe) starring Andrea Risebrough & Steve Buscemi, A24's   Woodshock (dir. Kate & Laura Mulleavy) starring Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston’s directorial debut feature The Last Photograph , and the film by director Joshua Leonard; The Lie .

He also composed the music for Raoul Martinez and Joshua Van Praag's documentary feature, Creating Freedom: Lottery of Birth, which was nominated for Best Documentary at Raindance Film Festival.  His music  features in Blue Valentine , starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.

Raeburn is also well known for his work with director Jonathan Glazer on his films Sexy Beast,Birth and the BAFTA nominated Under The Skin . Raeburn was instrumental in shaping the soundtrack of Lars Von Trier’s Breaking The Waves

In Television, Raeburn recently scored two series: Tell Me Your Secrets (created by Harriett Warner) for Amazon Prime and Hit & Run (created by Lior Raz, Avi Issacharoff, Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin) for Netflix.

Raeburn is the founder and Creative Director of internationally renowned Soundtree Music. His work includes iconic commercial spots, such as Guinness (Surfer/Bet on Black/Dreamclub), Sony (Music Pieces), Sony PlayStation (Mountain), Stella Artois (Ice Skating Priests), Levi's (Twist/Odyssey), IKEA (Beds) and Lurpak (Go Freestyle). Peter and Soundtree have also created soundtracks for The New York Times, The Guardian, Audi, Mercedes, Smirnoff, Nike. Adidas, Asics, On, Vodafone, Bacardi, Google, Apple and Samsung.  He has won a multitude of the industry's most prestigious awards including numerous Cannes Lions, D&AD, BTA Craft Awards, Creative Circle and Clio awards He composed for various television the long-running ITV1 idents theme for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and he also created the music and sound world that is Skype.

Raeburn was musical director and producer on the charity album Township Sessions by The Mothers, which features songs as lyrical health messages created to educate communities in South Africa about essential health issues. This record raised essential funds for the community.  He has also released four solo albums to date, You and Me, Scape, Note To Self, and Recovery.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two children.

Notable work

Films

Television

Selected commercials

Music

Awards

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