Andrew Skeet
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. 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. 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 and has worked as an arranger and orchestrator for artists such as George Michael, Sinéad O'Connor, Suede & James  Lavelle's Unkle. With Neil Hannon he has toured regularly as MD 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" 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 Job"s, "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) 2014- Destination Unknown 2014– Finding Time (Artist on Sony Classics) As Orchestrator 2005– The Movies (video game) (conductor: jazz & rock music, orchestrator) 2007– Heroes and Villains 2009– Desperate Romantics  (with Daniel Pemberton) 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– (with Daniel Pemberton) [Orchestrator, conductor] As Conductor and producer: 2011– The Greatest Video Game Music (London Philharmonic Orchestra) (Producer, Conductor) 2012– The Greatest Video Game Music 2 (London Philharmonic Orchestra) (Producer, Conductor)