Richard G. Mitchell

Richard G. Mitchell
Richard G Mitchell is an English composer of music primarily for movies and television.
Mitchell was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Preston, Lancashire. He attended Hutton Grammar School and later St Martins School of Art in the late 1970s where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Was awarded an Ivor Novello Award and is best known for scoring the movies: To Kill a King, Grand Theft Parsons, A Good Woman and the 1996 BBC period TV series The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Original Scores
Mitchell is an English composer best known for his writing and arranging period movie scores for choir and orchestra, though his compositions span a very wide range of styles varying from classical to more contemporary electronic genres such as drum and bass and trip hop. He also has a reputation for working in a diverse range of world music styles, such as the Tibetan score for Nick Gray's Escape from Tibet in contrast to a country and western pedal steel guitar-based score for Grand Theft Parsons, successful with film music critics at the 2004 Sundance Festival
His original score for To Kill a King in 2004 continued his successful relationship with director Mike Barker, for whom he scored A Good Woman (film) in 2005, and later the Sea Wolf (miniseries)' in 2008, followed by Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)'.
His score for the film Trial by Fire won an Ivor Novello Award in 2000 and the BBC period drama The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996 miniseries) won Best Score at the Royal Television Society Awards in 1998.
In 2005, Mitchell composed the music for The Call of the Toad (film), written by Günter Grass and directed by Robert Gliński. The score was recorded with the Polish Symphony Orchestra, and nominated for a Polish Academy Award.
Other commissions
Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.
Credits
Filmography
2020
Caveat
2011
Moby Dick
2006
Almost Heaven
2005
The Call of the Toad
A Good Woman
2004
Tempesta
2003
Grand Theft Parsons
2002
To Kill a King
2000
Children of the Holocaust
1998
La Coupe de la Gloire (Official World Cup Movie)
1997
Basil
1992
The Bridge
1986
Born American
1983
Rush Hour
1980
Beastly Treatment
Original Soundtrack Albums
2012
Moby Dick
2009
Sea Wolf
2006
A Good Woman
2003
To Kill a King
Grand Theft Parsons
2001
The Glass
1998
Invasion: Earth
1996
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1992
The Bridge
Television Work
2009
Sea Wolf
2006
Perfect Day: The Millennium
2005
How to Have a Good Death
Class of '76
The Stepfather
2002
Helen West
2001
The Glass
True Originals ("Latika Rana")
2000
Brits Abroad
Where There's Smoke
1999
Trial by Fire
Trauma Team
QED
1998
Get Real
Invasion: Earth
1997
Coast to Coast
Escape From Tibet
Bridget Jones Diary
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1996
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (3 episodes)
Euro 96 Opening Ceremony
1995
Harry
SuperMax (First Tuesday)
Stolen Brides (Network First)
Scotland Yard
1994
Brat Pack
1990
Cluedo
MasterChef
1989
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
1988
Across the Lake
Seoul Olympic Theme
1987
Worlds Beyond
Truckers
1986
In The Footsteps Of Scott
Awards
Won Ivor Novello Award for "Trial By Fire" (2000)
Nominated Polish Academy Award for "The Call of the Toad" (2005)
Nominated Royal Television Society Award for "The Glass" (2001)
Won Royal Television Society Award for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Won The New York Film and TV Festival best original score for "Rush Hour" (1985)
Notes
British composers
1956 births
Living people
Ivor Novello Award winners
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
Musicians from Manchester
English film score composers