Media Executive

The Media Executive are:

Mark Ayres
Ruth Barrett
Nigel Beaham Powell
David Ferguson (Director)
Mark Fishlock (Chair/Director)
Robert Foster
Simon Lambros
Guy Michelmore
Alan Parker (Director)
Chris Smith
Martyn Swain
Marc Sylvan


Mark Ayres
http://www.markayres.co.uk/

Mark has provided incidental music for some of the UK's top drama shows including “Rockcliffe's Babies”, “Casualty”, and three full scores for “Doctor Who”. His work has been heard on documentaries and magazine series, and provides the signature for Japanese Satellite Television. An ongoing collaboration with Computer Artist William Latham has produced a number of acclaimed short films and CD-ROM's, and he has also contributed to the De Wolfe music library. As a composer, arranger, producer, or performer, Mark's name appears on over 100 Compact Disc releases, including many of Silva Screen Records' "Digital Film Scores" series. 

Ruth Barratt
http://www.rubykon.com/

Ruth writes music for tv and film through her production company, Rubykon.
Recent credits include ITV drama ‘What we did on our holiday’, Channel 4 series ‘Totally Frank’ and additional music for the BBC drama series ‘The Virgin Queen’. 

Nigel Beaham-Powell
http://www.ddmp.demon.co.uk/

Nigel Beaham-Powell and his business partner Bella Russell have written the music for over 450 TV shows since they began in 1983 and have won many awards for their work. Their most recent projects are “The Miracle of Stairwell B”, a 9/11 documentary for Channel 4 and a new library album for Carlin Production Music.

Robert Foster

Robert Foster pursues a career of huge diversity. As a television composer, his credits are numerous and include contributions to all major genres – classical, contemporary, world & ethnic. He has composed for numerous TV Documentaries & Films including Dispatches, Cutting Edge & Secret History Series’ CH4. For BBC, “Isaac Newton – The Dark Heretic”, “Trading Up”, “USA 2000” (BAFTA Winner). For ITV1, “Kings & Queens of Britain”. In the field of TV Commercials, his credits are extensive, including Singapore Airlines, Persil, Mitsubishi, IBM, Nat West, Johnsons, Harveys, Morrisons, Chessington WOA, Kellogs. He has composed two stage musicals – “Outremer” commissioned by Exeter Festival 1991 and also “The Poet’s Song” 1997 and  many Concert works including a Triple Violin Concerto and the Choral Symphony “On Seas Less Hideously Serene”. In addition Robert is a virtuoso guitarist and lutenist, performing with many leading ensembles including The Nash Ensemble, CBSO/Simon Rattle as well as many appearances as soloist at Festivals both in the UK and abroad. He lives in London and Suffolk with his wife Ann and their two Cavalier King Charles spaniels.

Simon Lambros

Simon has worked as an Orchestrator, Music Consultant and Music Technology Consultant, was the senior music tutor at the National Film and Television School for 4 years as well as Course Director for PG Studies at the London College of Music and Media / Thames Valley University. He wrote (and conducted) the music for the highly successful BBC/Tiger Aspect series of films "Heroes and Villains" as well as writing some music for the Ivor Novello Award Nominated score to "The Wyvern Mystery". Simon's work as a Film and TV composer has encompassed a wide variety of genres. In the field of Animation he is represented by films such as "Blindscape", for which he wrote (and conducted) the music, as well as being the sound editor/designer and supervising Dubbing Mixer. This film received both BAFTA and OSCAR NOMINATIONS for Best Short Animation Film. Simon has also written music for the stage, documentaries, comedies and animations.

Guy Michelmore

Guy Michelmore is a British composer and television news presenter. After leaving the BBC, he began a career as a composer for television and films. In 2002 he won an Emmy award for his composition work on the BBC documentary "Mzima: Haunt of the River Horse". That same year he also won the Slate Award for Best Score for the UK feature film “Fly Fishing”. 

Chris Smith
http://www.finaltouch.co.uk/

Chris works as a media composer, producer and songwriter. He is the founder of Final Touch Productions and in charge of industry relations for PCAM, whom he represents on the committee of the Creators' Rights Alliance. He lives in West London with his wife and two cats, and enjoys his garden, his holidays, Sunday lunch and being properly paid!

Martyn Swain
www.smatalent.com/composers.htm

Martyn Swain was voted on to the Media Executive last year, with the specific intent of fighting the coercion of composers at all levels. Having started his career as a rock musician, he is now an Emmy/Fipa D’Or award winning freelance Composer, Producer and session musician, writing mainly for TV Dramas and Films.

Marc Sylvan
http://www.marcsylvanmusic.co.uk/ 

Marc Sylvan is forging an outstanding reputation as a music and sound designer, creating charismatic scores and sound for film, television, video games and new media. Marc is currently working on ‘BBC Reporting Scotland’ (BBC1), the new Jasper Carrott game show 'Golden Balls' (ITV1) and Bizarre’s PlayStation 3 release ‘The Club’. Other recent projects include the Sony PSP video game 'Pursuit Force', BBC1's Saturday night prime-time National Lottery show 'Come and Have a Go', 'For The Rest Of Your Life' (ITV1), 'Get 100' (BBC2), 'Payday' (Five), 'Celebrity Scissorhands' (BBC1), 'In The Grid' (Five) and commercials for 'Sega Rally', ‘Rolls Royce’ and the 'Saleen S7 Supercar'.