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Rowland Lee studied Composition at the Royal College of Music and has written much orchestral, choral and chamber music including The Crusaid Requiem, peformed at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 2003. With over 1000 broadcasts last year on UK televison alone, he is regarded as one of the country’s principal composer’s for animation. His TV credits include Crapston Villas, Margaret Thatcher: Where am I now? Stylissimo, Barking, The Melinda Messenger Show, children’s series Henry’s Cat, Salut Serge, Captain Abercromby, Engie Benjy, Wilf, the Witch’s Dog, BAFTA award-winning 64 Zoo Lane and Pablo the Little Red Fox. He has composed scores for over twenty short films including The Little Reindeer. Work for Matthew Bourne includes original score for BBC2 ballet Drip-a Narcissistic Love Story, orchestrations for Town and Country, Nutcracker! Plus two different reduced Orchestrations for Swan Lake. He has also conducted Nutcracker! At Sadler’s Wells and Swan Lake in Ferrara, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Cologne. Other credits as musical director/pianist include; Marry Me A Little, The Great Big Radio Show, Elegies, the UK premiere of Ruthless at Stratford Circus and Over my Shoulder. For Stewart Nicholls work includes A Girl Called Jo, Follow That Girl, Vanity Fair, Zip Goes A Million, The Amazons, Grab Me a Gondola, Julian Slade’s 70th birthday concert, reconstructions of David Heneker’s Popkiss and Noel Coward’s Sail Away. Many of these productions are available on CD and The Amazons received a Grammy nomination for best Cast Album in 2003. As a keyboard player he has contributed to many underground dance tracks and has co-written two songs on Shut Up and Dance’s critically acclaimed album Reclaim the Streets. In 1986, he was the recipient of the British Film Institute’s Anthony Asquith Young Composer Award. |
