Mark Adair – Music Composer, Greater London

Biography

I provide cutting edge original music for film and television, taking pride in musical excellence & high production quality.

My experience stems from a combination of classical training on guitar and piano, with a 1st class hons music degree from King’s College London, specialising in composition, and a diverse background in performance.

I undertook guitar tuition at the Royal Academy of Music, and played a variety of instruments on tour with jazz bands in France & Switzerland, and a guitar quartet in America, in addition to performing at top London venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the Southbank complex. In 1999 I won the Composition award at the National Festival of Music for Youth with my guitar quartet. With a wide ranging musical background my composing covers a multitude of genres.

I have been composing for film and television for over 5 years, and have recently undertaken a wide variety of productions, recent examples of which can be seen below.

Composing Information

• Classification: Established
• Profession: Composer, Performer (Guitars, piano), Producer
• Primary Sequencer: Cubase
• Operating System: PC
• Projects:
  -"Britain's African Emperor" documentary for Channel 4 (in post-production)
  
  -"Hot Cities" 8 part documentary series for BBC World
  
  -"BFI London Film Festival 2009" theatrical trailer for this year's festival
  
  -"Kandahar Break" British feature film set in Afghanistan
  
  -"The Other America" 5 part documentary series on Latin America for BBC World
  
  -"Scent" Film Council short
  
  -"Laminated" theatre production
  
  See www.adairmusic.co.uk for further details
  
  
• Relevant Qualifications: King's College, London: BMus (first class hons), specialising in composition

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Film & TV MusicTracks

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Title	Moods	Genres	Posted	Comments	Recommendations
BFI London Film Festival	Dramatic Epic Suspense	Orchestral Strings Piano	798 days ago	0	0
Kandahar Break	Dramatic Epic Suspense	Orchestral Strings World	798 days ago	1	3
Hot Cities - Vistas	Dramatic Epic	Orchestral Strings	795 days ago	1	0
Hot Cities - Open Country	Mellow Sentimental Minimalist	Acoustic Ambient Chamber Group	795 days ago	0	0
Invisible	Atmospheric Dramatic Suspense	Orchestral Piano Acoustic	1709 days ago	6	14
Shimmering River	Minimalist Atmospheric Mellow	Ambient Orchestral Piano	1593 days ago	2	3
Jonahs Quids	Atmospheric Minimalist Cheerful	Orchestral Ambient Electronica	1592 days ago	2	3
Left with everything	Atmospheric Epic Sentimental	Acoustic Ambient Pop	1709 days ago	3	5
Streams of Sunlight	Bright Epic Energetic	Rock Electronica Ambient	1593 days ago	1	1
Commercials	Factual Energetic Cool	Electronica Rock Blues	1709 days ago	3	5

Ratings & Reviews Summary

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Composing Genres

Mark composes in the following film and television music genres (bold = specialises in):

• Ambient
• Acoustic
• Blues
• Dance
• Easy Listening
• Electronica
• Experimental
• Jazz
• Orchestral
• Piano
• Pop
• Retro
• Rock
• Strings
• Urban

• Recommended
• New Music
• Comments

Full review

06 Jan 20:56

Empty by Olivia Dixon

• “Has a Paul Mounsey-esque quality to it - very compelling!!…”
• ceri worsfold (Member)

Full review

06 Jan 20:38

Police Drama by Tony Patterson

• “Has an Edge of Darkness feel to it!! Like the track but I agree with Melody Xu.…”
• ceri worsfold (Member)

Full review

06 Jan 20:34

Battleground by Jules Bromley

• “Love this track!! Thinking maybe would work for the latest Disney/Pixar space flick - whatever that is!!…”
• ceri worsfold (Member)

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Mood Cloud

• Atmospheric
• Cheerful
• Cheese
• Chilled
• Cool
• Dark
• Dramatic
• Energetic
• Epic
• Factual
• Fun
• Minimalist
• Sentimental
• Suspense
• Weird
• Mellow
• Melancholy
• Bright
• Romantic

Genre Cloud

• Ambient
• Acoustic
• Blues
• Choral
• Country
• Dance
• Easy Listening
• Electronica
• Experimental
• Folk
• Industrial
• Jazz
• Orchestral
• Piano
• Pop
• Reggae
• Retro
• Rock
• Strings
• Urban
• World
• Woodwind
• Brass
• Chamber Group

Featured Composer Mark Slater

Mark's latest film for the Hamburg Planetarium is Natural Selection: Darwin's Mystery of Mysteries. More

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